Active Learning Instructional Strategies

Teachers capture students’ attention on the topic, then ask some relevant and correlative questions to students to strengthen the previous information students have by warm-up activities. Also, the teacher coordinates questions and activities sequentially to keep/maintain students’ interest. Because of teacher’ efforts in organization, students relate activities to real life problems based on their weaknesses to improve through teacher’s feedback reinforcing previous concepts or defining new ones. Regarding to the kind of activity, students look for specific information on topics, which are based on their curiosity reviewing previous topics using questions. Despite of students’ different learning styles, the teacher should use a strategy that

In this context, active learning instructional strategies create excitement and enhance deep and lasting learning.

Relating to warm-up activities, this kind of activities are used strategically for students’ development to enhance learning skills. Moreover, active learning allows / lets students use creativity to solve problems, puzzles and more. In fact, students discover the information by reading, organizing the main information, skimming to unknown words from the textbook to make a simple summary, which might be useful for the rest of the class and future reviews of the subject. Based on the class observation, the teacher implemented an explanation activity to make sure all the information about the class evaluation is clear. Then, ’20 questions’ activity took its turn to excite students encouraging them to use vocabulary related to the topic studied. Specifically, the main purpose of this activity consisted in students’ participation with effective use of vocabulary related to furniture and the place of the house they are located. The next activity was ‘Changing places’, whose main objective is to help students remember

As a matter of fact, it is fruitful to use interactive activities with aims of improvement to adapt the plan with students’ necessities completing learning strategies successfully. As a result, active learning instructional strategies can be created and used to engage students in thinking critically in a creative way; such as writing, speaking in groups or individually. Usually, group activities encourage shy / timid students to give their opinions freely about a specific topic. Meanwhile students communicate their ideas, the teacher keeps track on students coordinate their ideas / knowledge to express themselves. Particularly, the teacher focus in accomplishment of activities purpose instead of criticizing and point students’ mistakes / failures. Clearly, involving / engaging activities have various stages that help the teacher notice students’ mistakes shown in the activity e.g. incorrect pronunciation, wrong grammar verb forms and