We often hear that teachers need to be facilitators of learning rather than deliverers of information. Through this workshop, Clif Mims will help you begin developing strategies for managing a classroom in which students have a leading role in learning and the teacher becomes an engaged classroom coach. Strategies for designing and practical tips for implementing units will be shared. Workshop resources available at http://bit.ly/mims201.

1. Designing Inquiry-Based
Learning Activities
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8. Shhh! The Students
Are Learning:
Being an Effective Facilitator of Learning

9. Project-Based
Learning
Inquiry-Based
Learning

10. Characteristics of
Project-Based Learning

11. Characteristics of PBL
• Driving question, scenario
• Data collection
• Data analysis
• Communicate findings

12. This will be our framework for designing
opportunities for facilitated learning.

13. Examples from Your Classroom

14. Model 1
• Collaborate with your partner(s) to research the debate
of the H1N1 flu vaccine in the U.S.A. Review trustworthy
resources taking notes and keeping citations as you learn.
• DUE TODAY: Work with your partner(s) to develop a list of
some of the arguments for taking and abstaining from
the vaccine.

15. Model 2
• Collaborate with your partner(s) to research the debate
of the H1N1 flu vaccine in the U.S.A. Review trustworthy
resources taking notes and keeping citations as you learn.
• DUE TODAY: Work with your partner(s) to develop a list of
some of the arguments for taking and abstaining from
the vaccine.
• DUE WEDNESDAY: Create a persuasive presentation
advocating for your decision to take or abstain from the
vaccine.

16. Revisit the Framework
• Driving question, scenario
• Data collection
• Data analysis
• Communicate findings

17. Making Connections
• Common Core Standards
• State Curriculum Frameworks
• 21st Century Skills
• Productive Citizens

18. Example 1
What can you learn from a parking lot?

19. Students’ Driving Questions
• What is the ratio of cars, trucks, SUVs, and vans?
• Where do people with sports cars tend to park their cars?
• What is the most common vehicle color to visit this parking
lot?
• When is this parking lot the busiest?
• From 5:00 PM to 6:00 PM does Publix, Jitney Jungle, or Kroger
have the busiest parking lot?
• Judging by the parking lots, which local banks attract the most
business?

20. Example 2
• Authentic Learning Activity
• Example student projects

21. Model 3
Imagine that you are part of
Christopher Columbus' crew
and determine how much
drinking water needs to be
packed.

22. Model 3
Imagine that you are part of
Christopher Columbus' crew
and determine how much
drinking water needs to be
packed.
SURPRISE: Report your
answer in liters.

23. Revisit the Framework
• Driving question, scenario
• Data collection
• Data analysis
• Communicate findings

24. Making Connections
• Common Core Standards
• State Curriculum Frameworks
• 21st Century Skills
• Productive Citizens

25. What Does It Take to Create
an Activity Like This?

26. Instructional Design Tips
1. Driving question or scenario
2. Alternative/suggested resources
3. Mini-lessons as needed
4. Conferencing
5. Organizers
6. Guide students through questioning
Mims, C. (2003), Authentic Learning: A Practical
Introduction and Guide for Implmentation

27. Practical Tips for Teachers
1. You must think like a coach.
2. Bring earplugs.
3. Ease your way into it.
4. Get some help.
5. You are learning, too.
Mims, C. (2003), Authentic Learning: A Practical
Introduction and Guide for Implmentation

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29. Application
• Identify at least one project-based activity
that you will implement next semester.
• Use the Planning Form (Example
Lessons/Units: 1 Day, 3 Days, 2 Weeks)

30. Related Resources
• Authentic Learning: A Practical
Introduction and Guide for Implmentation
• Inquiry-Based Learning at Wikipedia
• Teaching and Learning in the 21st Century
• Instructional Design in the Digital Age
• ClifMims.com

31. Presentation materials and
many other teacher resources
available at
http://clifmims.com/pd.

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