This document discusses interactive teaching and learning. It emphasizes that learners retain more information when they are actively involved through discussion, hands-on activities, and teaching others. Interactive teaching encourages learner participation and uses questions, examples, and aids to stimulate discussion. Different learning styles like visual, auditory and kinesthetic are addressed. The benefits of group work are highlighted such as obtaining different perspectives and peer instruction. Constructivism as a learning theory is examined, noting learners construct their own understanding from experiences. The views of Piaget and Vygotsky on social constructivism are summarized.
5. Learning Styles
Visual Learners - remember
images, shapes and colors
Auditory Learners -
remember voices, sounds
and music
Kinesthetic - remember by
doing, moving and touching
6. I Remember...
5% of what I hear
10% of what I read
20% of what I hear and
read
30% of what I am shown
50% of what I discuss
75% of what I do
90% of what I teach others
7.
8. Interactive Teaching
Involves facilitator and
learners
Encourage and expect
learners to participate
Use questions to stimulate
discussion, emphasizing the
value of answers
Give participants hands-on
experience
Use teaching aids to gain and
retain attention
10. Where to Start…
Start with clear
learning
objectives/outcomes
– Helps you plan
session and helps
participants by
providing clear view of
the session’s direction
12. Increase Participation
Research shows learners will:
Listen for only 15-20 minutes
without a break
Learn more when given an
opportunity to process what
they are learning
Retain more if they review or
use the information
immediately after learning it
13. Lecturing. . . .
Lecture is the duct-tape of
the teaching world
Lecturing delivers “concepts”
It delivers a lot of information
in a short amount of time
Conveys information that is
difficult to present in another
way
14. Why use facilitation rather than
lecture in a training session?
Participants like to be actively
involved
Participants want to share
knowledge and ideas
You don’t have to be an expert
and answer all questions,
because learners can address
questions as well
Keeps group’s attentive and
involved
16. Importance of working in a
group.
Stimulates individual
input
Learners obtain
feedback from multiple
perspectives
Offers opportunity for
peer instruction
Allows you to evaluate
their learning
19. When to Use Group Work
Warm ups
Practice Session
Review
Break Up Lectures
Complete
assignments
20.
21. What is CONSTRUCTIVISM?
refers to the idea that
learners construct
knowledge for
themselves---each
learner individually (and
socially) constructs
meaning--- as he or she
learns.
A learning theory that
“equates learning with
creating meaning from
experience”
22. If you tell me, I will listen.
If you show me, I will see.
But if you let me experience,
I will learn.
Lao-Tse 500 B.C
23. Lev Vygotski
Believed that
learners develop
strong thinking
skills through
interaction with
culture and their
surroundings.
24. Jean Piaget
Believes that children
learn through
experience, they
adapt to situations
based on what they
have previously
learned from other
situations.
25. Jean Piaget
Learners construct knowledge;
SCHEMATA –
Process whereby currently held belief
system understanding.
DISEQUILIBRIUM
Challenged through technology based
interactive learning environment
26. Jean Piaget
Learners construct knowledge;
ACCOMODATION
requiring the teacher to subsequently
change
ASSIMILATION
to expand knowledge, to adopt, to learn
29. INDIVIDUAL CONSTRUCTIVISM
This is also called cognitive
constructivism
It emphasizes individual, internal
construction of knowledge.
It is largely based on Piaget’s theory.
Learners should be allowed to discover
principles through their own exploration
rather than direct instruction by the
teacher.
30. SOCIAL CONSTRUCTIVISM
This view emphasizes that “knowledge exist in a
social context and is initially shared with others
instead of being represented solely in the mind
of an individual.”
It is based on Vygotsky’s theory.
Construction of knowledge is shared by two or
more people