Activity Based Learning
- 3. Activity Based Learning • Activity Based Learning is defined as a setup where students actively participate in the learning experience rather than sit as passive listeners. • By utilizing different activities in the classroom, critical thinking skills and creative skills of the students are also enhanced. • describes a range of pedagogical approaches to teaching. • core premises include the requirement that learning should be based on doing hands-on experiments and activities. • rooted in the idea that children are active learners rather than passive recipients of information. • If children are provided the opportunity to explore on their own and are provided with an optimum learning environment, then learning becomes more joyful and long-lasting.
- 6. BENEFITS • Give students the feeling of importance in the classroom • Give them small targets to achieve in classroom • Boost up their individual and team skills • Increasing the thinking ability and creativity • Teacher should play the role of facilitator to complete the given targets • Building up communication skill among participants.
- 7. Classification of ABL • Participation: Students are assigned with small tasks, so that they can be engaged in doing activities in classroom. • Critical Thinking: Student's task should be out of the box, not directly related to their base knowledge but can be answered after thinking. • Analyzing: Tasks given to the students must be subjective so that they can put their views in different ways after analysis. • Knowledge Sharing: Task given to the students must require varying knowledge, so that students are bound to communicate amongst themselves. • Team-work: After sharing of knowledge, they can conclude and take decision from their team. • Communication: Team-work and knowledge sharing increase communication amongst team members. They also need to communicate with teacher to solve critical problems. • Problem Solving: Increase the ability to solve real life problems by analyzing and solving class-room problems based on course topics. • Quiz: It helps students to be more competitive in nature and answer quickly. • Debating: It increases the power of establishing the self argument in front of fellows.
- 8. Experiential learning • is an engaged learning process whereby students “learn by doing” and by reflecting on the experience. • hands-on laboratory experiments, internships, practicums, field exercises • stimulate academic inquiry by promoting interdisciplinary learning, civic engagement, career development, cultural awareness, leadership, and other professional and intellectual skills. • Learning that is considered “experiential” contain all the following elements: 1. Reflection, critical analysis and synthesis. 2. Opportunities for students to take initiative, make decisions, and be accountable for the results. 3. Opportunities for students to engage intellectually, creatively, emotionally, socially, or physically. 4. A designed learning experience that includes the possibility to learn from natural consequences, mistakes, and successes.
- 9. ROLE OF THE FACILITATTOR • Select suitable experiences that student can relate with. • Pose problems, set boundaries, support learners, provide suitable resource, ensure physical and emotional safety, and facilitate the learning process. • Recognize and encourage spontaneous opportunities for learning • Help the learner notice the connections between one context and another
- 10. REMEMBER – YOU ARE THE GURU GUIDE UNDERSTANDING REFORMING UNDERTAKER ( IF NECESSARY)