Active students
"Active students" is one of the four principles defined in the "Teaching Large Classes".
A Toolbox that supports the described solutions, has been created.
Intention:
The teaching is organised so that the students make preparations before teaching in the classroom.
Challenge:
For learning to be stimulating and effective, the students must be proactive in their work on the subject matter and the teaching must be organised so that there is clear interaction between the classroom teaching and the students’ preparations.
To ensure that the students feel that their input is paying off and needed, classroom teaching should be done on the basis that all students have prepared for it.
In large classes, teachers may feel that not all students are spending enough time on preparation. The students may feel that it makes no difference what they do, while teachers may find it difficult to get an idea of the students’ preparations.
Teachers has a particular need for tools, techniques and methods that will help the students to be proactive in their work outside of the classroom and which highlight the benefits of doing the preparations and consequences of not doing them.
Solutions:
Subject matter, Reflection, Expression, Questions, Problem-solving and Discussion are all instruments, which can be used to get the students to actively process the subject matter in their preparations.
Concrete resources for furthering preparations for classroom teaching include induction videos, books containing interactive elements, online discussion and reflection, online peer feedback, self-evaluation tests, or activities in the teaching, in which the students are reliant on their own or each other’s preparations and for which failure to prepare will have a noticeable impact. Concrete activities can be done individually or in groups, online or offline.
Teaching Practice Examples:
Flipped classroom
Team-based learning
Completion of assignment in the teaching followed by peer feedback
Minitests for learning reflection
Just in Time Teaching (JiTT)