Active Learning Approaches Analysis

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Active learning approaches are intended to make the students active participants in their own learning rather than passive learners. Many individual learn best and become capable in skills by participating instead of being an observer to the skills (Hermin and Toth, 2006).

There are different types of active learning approaches that teachers can use in teaching science. According to Momani, Asiri, and Alatawi (2016, p. 21), “active learning approaches are designed to take students out of their books, sometimes out of their seats, and sometimes out of their familiar ways of thinking.” When implementing the approaches of active learning teacher must consider listening to learners, encouraging open discussion, accepting learners’ ideas, allowing …show more content…

Teachers often assign tickets as a way to encourage critical thinking, by asking students what they have learned, or provide some words to read or provide them with some questions which will be the Ticket-to-Enter the next class. Ticket-to-Leave allows the teacher to get feedback on what students learned or on what they still have questions about by the end of the lesson and also to find the effectiveness of learning strategies used in class. This helps teachers to reflect on his own pedagogies and look for the improvement in the next lesson. Following are the steps suggested by Fisher and Frey …show more content…

Through this activity, the students are given opportunity to ask questions and get clarification. It also gives an opportunity for shyer students to ask question. It also serves as a feedback for the teachers. Bell and Kahrhoff (2006) states the steps for using fish bowl. Students are given index cards or a paper and asked to write down one question concerning the topic, which they do not fully understand. At the end of the class period (or, at the beginning of the next class meeting if the question is assigned for homework), students deposit their questions in a fish bowl. The teacher then draws several questions out of the bowl and answers them for the class or asks the class to answer

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