Session Format
Poster Session (60 minutes)
Location
Nessmith-Lane Building Lobby
Abstract for the conference program
This workshop will present a medley of active-learning methods that have been implemented successfully in both introductory and upper-level physics courses. The participants will engage in methods that include Just-in-Time Teaching (JiTT), clicker questions, whiteboard activities, and virtual experiments. The workshop will be designed very much like a class that employs these methods, with a pre-workshop online assignment that is due “Just in Time” before the workshop, and whiteboard activities and clicker questions associated with the active-learning methods. The participants will work in teams to develop some JiTT assignments, clicker questions, and whiteboard activities that they could use in their own classes. The goal of the workshop is to allow the participants to experience this combination of active-learning methods and appreciate how the methods can be combined and applied in a STEM classroom to increase students’ conceptual understanding and problem solving skills.
Proposal Track
Non-research Project
Start Date
3-9-2012 1:45 PM
End Date
3-9-2012 2:00 PM
Recommended Citation
Formica, Sarah, "A Medley of Successful Active-Learning Methods" (2012). Interdisciplinary STEM Teaching & Learning Conference (2012-2019). 40.
https://digitalcommons.georgiasouthern.edu/stem/2012/2012/40
Included in
Curriculum and Instruction Commons, Scholarship of Teaching and Learning Commons, Science and Mathematics Education Commons
A Medley of Successful Active-Learning Methods
Nessmith-Lane Building Lobby
This workshop will present a medley of active-learning methods that have been implemented successfully in both introductory and upper-level physics courses. The participants will engage in methods that include Just-in-Time Teaching (JiTT), clicker questions, whiteboard activities, and virtual experiments. The workshop will be designed very much like a class that employs these methods, with a pre-workshop online assignment that is due “Just in Time” before the workshop, and whiteboard activities and clicker questions associated with the active-learning methods. The participants will work in teams to develop some JiTT assignments, clicker questions, and whiteboard activities that they could use in their own classes. The goal of the workshop is to allow the participants to experience this combination of active-learning methods and appreciate how the methods can be combined and applied in a STEM classroom to increase students’ conceptual understanding and problem solving skills.
