1. Trainer
Date
Location

3. Active Learning Workshop Objectives
Participants will have opportunities to experience active learning first hand.
Participants will gain experience building the six principles of active learning into their programs.

4. Agenda Welcome Experiencing Active Learning
Strategies of Active Learning
Creating Active Learning in your program
Closing

5. Housekeeping Materials Bathroom location
Take care of yourself (eat, drink, stretch, etc.)
Please silence your cell phone

6. Active Learning and the Youth Program Quality Assessment (PQA)

7. Make a group that contains each of these items:
How can you light the bulb with these materials?
Make a hypothesis.

8. Light the Bulb Take on the role of the card you hold.
Use your bodies to model a way to light the bulb.
Try to pulse “electricity” from one person to another by squeezing your hands.
Make a hypothesis about how to light the bulb.

9. Will this light the bulb?

10. Will this light the bulb?

11. Will this light the bulb?

12. Will this light the bulb?

13. Test your hypothesis
Connect the bulb, wires, and battery to make the bulb light.
Why does it work?

14. “The strategies for active learning are great content and adult support”

15. Active Learning Strategies
Great Content
Provide stimulating activities
Provide appropriate challenge
Adult Support
Engineer success but allow for mistakes
Participate alongside youth
Ask lots of questions
Promote learning connections

16. Minds of Our Own
Carefully observe the differences between Jennifer’s experience in class with Mr. Carter and in the interview with Mr. Sadler.
What does each leader in the video do to encourage Active Learning?
Record your observations.

17. Minds of Our Own Debrief
How did Mr. Carter (teacher) and Mr. Sadler (interviewer) demonstrate the strategies?
Where else have you seen the strategies done well?
What might the strategies look like?
Consider a time when things have gone awry because the strategies were not in place.

18. Teaching Styles
Adult does most of the talking and youth listen or take notes.
Youth have a task to do. Adult watches them fail or succeed.

19. Teaching Styles
What are the pros?
What are the cons?

20. Teaching Styles
Adult does most of the talking and youth listen or take notes.
Adult provides structure and support as youth engage in a learning task.
Youth have a task to do. Adult watches them fail or succeed.

21. Looking for the Strategies
Choose a Case Study from page 22.
Record your responses on page 23, “Looking for Active Learning.”
What strategies are present?
What could you change to increase the use of the strategies?

22. Scaffolding
How do the active learning supports “scaffold” youth as they learn?
As facilitators, how can we know when the level of challenge is appropriate?
How could the activities in the case studies be altered to :
Make them simpler
Make them more challenging

23. Applying the Active Learning Strategies
THEN
Identify an activity that you’ll be doing in the near future with youth
Refer to pages for information on different age groups OR
Complete the Active Learning Lesson Plan on page 26.
Choose an activity from “Lots of Examples” on pages 24-25
Check off the strategies as you incorporate them into the lesson.

24. Reflection Great Content Provide stimulating activities
Provide appropriate challenge
Adult Support
Engineer success but allow for mistakes
Participate alongside youth
Ask lots of questions
Promote learning connections

25. Be sure to check out these resources in your guidebook.
Sharing Active Learning With Others (28-33)
The Method (2-8)
Guided Discovery (10-11)
Scaffolding (12-13)
Across Age & Content (16-18)
Lesson Plan (26)
Research Review (35-40)

26. Thank you! Lingering Questions? Evaluations Contact Us…
124 Pearl Street Suite 601 Ypsilanti, MI

27. Alternative activities
Active Learning
Alternative activities

28. Materials Stations
How could you use the materials at each station for active learning?
What content lends itself well to the materials?
How could you use the materials to scaffold learning?

29. Paper Folding
Follow the instructions provided by the leader of the group in order to create the origami figure.

30. Exquisite Corpse
With your original group, be sure to note where the neck and waist are marked.
Separate.
Draw your section of the body.
Back with your original group, develop your character.
How does this activity use scaffolding and the strategies for active learning?