50 Ways to Leave your Lectern : Active Learning Strategies to Engage First-Year Students by Staley, Constance Courtney, author instant download

50 Ways to Leave your Lectern : Active Learning Strategies to Engage First-Year Students by Staley, Constance Courtney, author instant download

xviii, 203 pages : 28 cm, Useful for any course! Stimulate thinking, discussion, and group interaction with these practical, ready-to-use activities! An essential tool for every instructor, this book is based on the premise that many of today's students learn best by interacting and by doing. To supplement the auditory learning students receive during lectures, Constance Staley offers instructors many dynamic class-tested activities designed to engage students in their own learning. Incorporating affective, behavioral, and cognitive goals, these exercises shift the teacher's role from soloist or center-stage performer to conductor, orchestrating and synthesizing a classroom experience where students actively participate and learn. - Back cover, Includes bibliographical references (pages 187-203), Defining active learning -- Using active learning in first-year classrooms -- Processing active learning experiences : application, reflection, integration -- Designing active learning experiences -- Assessing active learning experiences -- Active learning exercise evaluation sheet -- Active learning design sheet -- Introductory exercises -- First-year seminar exercises -- Content-integrating exercises -- Lecture-based exercises -- Skills-based exercises : speaking, writing, technology -- Discipline-specific exercises -- Closing exercises