Active Learning

Active learning is very crucial and an effective method. There are three types of learning; Audio, visual, and kinesthetic. Therefore a teacher is not as effective if they only stick with one type of teaching method. As a student I personally need different activities, visuals aids and go to lecture in order to be successful in my classes. Active learning includes films and to clarify engaging films, I mention this because some teachers sometimes show very outdated material that looses the students interest in an instant. Pictures, like they say a picture is worth a thousand words and it is a fact that the more vivid the material is the most likely the student will remember it. Group work is also relevant to active learning. In one of the workshops that I have gone as part of my job I learned that it is essential to assign roles to students when assigning group work. The roles are the recorder( person who writes the notes), Time keeper (person who keeps track of the time and makes sure the assignment is done on time), Checker ( this person makes sure that everyone is contributing and understanding the material, and lastly the presenter ( the voice of the group. These roles makes students accountable for doing something and makes sure active learning is taking place as to social loafers.