Faculty Development Workshop Purpose and Focus

1. To develop the expertise (knowledge, skills, and dispositions) needed to actively engage students in their learning process for the purpose of enhancing student learning and retention.
2. To explore and create teaching strategies that promote active student engagement and, thus, enhances student learning and retention.

Overview

Research clearly indicates that when students are actively engaged in their learning process, their learning and retention levels are enhanced. Active student engagement is a major part of the academic goal to improve the teaching-learning process.

20 Top Learning Objectives

By the end of successfully completing this workshop, participants should be able to demonstrate their expertise in actively engaging students in their learning process. This will be evident as participants:

1. Define active student engagement also known as active learning.
2. Determine factors that inhibit active student engagement.
3. Share and predict student reactions to being actively involved in their learning process.
4. Discuss the pros and cons that active student engagement has for students and instructors.
5. Discuss opportunities for building active student engagement in and out of class.
6. Discuss strategies for dealing with overly-active engaged students.
7. Explore and develop student participation scoring rubrics.

Explore, evaluate, and formulate the following strategies that help promote active student engagement and, thus, enhance learning and retention via effective:

8.  Icebreakers
9.  Motivational strategies
10. Questioning strategies
11. Interactive lecture presentations
12. Active class discussions
13. Use of games to enhance learning
14. Writing strategies
15. Problem-based learning strategies
16. Implementation of different learning styles
17. Implementation of collaborative learning groups
18. Implementation of student autonomy opportunities
19.  Implementation of instructor-to-student feedback
20. Implementation of peer (student-to-student) feedback opportunities

Handouts

Titles

1. Nomenclature: Active Student Engagement Definitions
2. Best Practices for Actively Engaging Students in Their Learning
3. Tips for Promoting Active Student Engagement
4. Icebreakers and Tips for Facilitating Them
5. Bloom’s Taxonomy
6. Quotations: Active Student Engagement
7. References and Resources: Active Student Engagement
8. Webliography: Active Student Engagement Internet Resources

This faculty development workshop is available to serve as
Professional Development Hours.

Each participant, who successfully completes this
faculty development workshop,
will be awarded a “Certificate of Completion”.

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