Below is the Quarto markdown outline for the slides presented during the seminar. The original QMD file is here.

MAA instructional Practices Guide #

Part 1 of 7 - Fostering Student Engagement

You can find the MAA Instructional Guide here hosted on the MAA’s site.

Active Learning #

Classroom practices aimed at fostering student engagement attend to the research-based idea that students learn best when they are engaged in their learning (e.g., Freeman, et al., 2014) ¹

But don’t worry too much!

“Active” Learning #

Freeman et al. (2014) coded active learning as “intensities ranging from 10% to 100% of class time.” Think about that. This study, a phenomenally important, heavily cited meta-analysis, classified a session as active learning if there were 5 minutes of an in-class worksheet or a clicker question in a 50-minute class session. That means this is not lecture versus active learning; it is all-lecture learning versus lecture plus active learning ²

Practices Fostering Student Engagement #

Before we dig in individually, let’s look at the list:

• Building a classroom community
• Wait time
• responding to student contributions in the classroom
• one-minute paper or exit tickets
• collaborative learning strategies

Discussion: #

In small groups, discuss (~ 3-5 minutes) then we’ll share out:

• What are you already using?
  • How is it going? where could it improve?

Practices:

• Building a classroom community
• Wait time
• responding to student contributions in the classroom
• one-minute paper or exit tickets
• collaborative learning strategies

As we discuss it all together: #

Please think about:

• What is one thing you can implement in your classroom today/tomorrow to increase engagement for all students?

• What will have to change in your preparation for class to ensure the change above can happen?

• How will you determine if the implementation is effective?

• (would you like to take 2-3 minutes to write down ideas?)

Practices Fostering Student Engagement #

Now let’s dig into each together as a community:

• Building a classroom community
• Wait time
• responding to student contributions in the classroom
• one-minute paper or exit tickets
• collaborative learning strategies

Citations #