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- Prevent problems by encouraging active engagement
- Positive attitudes toward being challenged and questioned
- Involve the class in decision making (provide opportunities for students to actively engage in decision making)
- Emphasize the future utility of learning, its instrumental relationship to students’ future goals. You can emphasize the relevance to future schooling; future careers; to becoming a productive scientist; to giving the student the tools and options for future choices
- Create a class culture of acceptance - one in which students feel welcome, respected, share “community of practice”. Teachers can do this by diminishing internal competition and increasing cooperation and team spirit.
2. How do these techniques tend to go wrong?Anchor Active Learning Active Learning
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Students resist non-lecturing approaches because active learning alternatives provide a sharp contrast to the very familiar passive listening role to which they have become accustomed. With explicit instruction in how to actively participate and learn in less-traditional modes, students soon come to favor new approaches. An excellent text entitled “Helping Students Learn in a Learner-Centered Environment: A Guide to Facilitating Learning in Higher Education (Doyle, 2008), offers many helpful suggestions and ideas. http://www.cte.cornell.edu/documents/presentations/Active%20Learning%20-%20Creating%20Excitement%20in%20the%20Classroom%20-%20Handout.pdf
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