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Activity based teaching
Activity-Based Learning is a type of teaching where
children learn at their own pace through various
supervised activities. It is a more interactive and
engaging method of teaching children. It allows for
monitoring factors such as coordination, speech, motor
skills and social skills amongst other important factors.
It is a fun approach to learning since it boosts the
development of the brain in children by providing
constant stimulus by prompting them to respond.
Activity-based learning is achieved mainly in three ways
which are, experimentation, expression, and exploration.
Continue reading this article to read more about activity-
based learning for kids and how activity-based learning
helps students?
The teacher monitors, observes, encourages, guides, checks
and praises.
Activity-based learning
Activity-based learning is a disruptive innovation in
education that can
transform teaching and learning.
Instead of transmitting information to
the student as
is commonly done in a lecture, activity-based learning
provides students a way to experience and interact
with ideas and
information. Because activity-based
learning connects students with real
world practical
problems, it increases student engagement.
Activity-based learning is generally convenient, easy
to use, and can be
constructed from traditional teaching
methods, aligning and blending
with pre-existing
education pedagogy, competency mapping
and assessment.
Activity-based learning is modular
and creates opportunities for
meaningful
collaborative work.
The activity-based learning revolves
around the following concepts:
Experimentation – gathering knowledge through
experience. Exploration – gathering knowledge
and attaining skills through active investigation.
#Expression – encouraging kids to express their
views through visual presentations.
The activity-based learning revolves
around the following concepts:
Experimentation – gathering knowledge through
experience. Exploration – gathering knowledge
and attaining skills through active investigation.
#Expression – encouraging kids to express their
views through visual presentations.
Meaning of Active Learning:
A workshop Session
to do a training about
Active Learning:
In this session we will achieve our workshop objectives
by modeling
activity-based learning and applying our
experience to create a roadmap for introducing activity-
based learning into our own teaching.
Target Audience:
Educators using, and interested in learning about activity-
based learning to enhance students’
professional skills
and meet technical competencies.
Rationale:
Traditional pedagogy, focused
predominantly on
educational theory and less on student engagement with
the practice world, falls short in providing the active
education
current learners need. Disruptive education,
in the form of experiential learning, creates an opportunity
to motivate all students to master
real-world skills and
professional competencies through self-efficacy
without
remediation.
Rigorously designed rubrics and innovative
assessment
methods of activity-based learning can identify quality
teaching practices for educators.
Learning Objectives:
By the end of the session, participants
should be able to:
Review principles of activity-based learning and explain
why can it
be a disruptive innovation by participating in
an activity-based learning exercise.
Identify the technical and professional competencies
and skills that students can learn through activity-based
learning.
Explain the benefits of activity-based learning for the
various
stakeholder groups: faculty, students, and the
education community at large.
Analyze the challenges of activity-based learning and
evaluate means by which to address these challenges.
Identify the process of establishing partnerships and
mechanisms to
successfully design and evaluate an
activity-based learning course.
Outline: Overview (10 minutes):
Discussion-focused working groups
using activity-based approach:
(60 minutes)
Task 1-
Activity-based Learning examples: (30 minutes)
The facilitators will engage participants by creating
working groups to
identify and discuss activity-based
learning examples (this can include
discussion of
examples from workshop facilitators) (15 minutes).
Lightning Round Presentations:
3 minutes in plenary to present examples of activity-
based learning from each group.
Task 2- (15 minutes).
Benefits and Challenges (25 minutes): Working groups
discuss
benefits of creating an activity-focused
classroom environment and then
the challenges of
implementing activity based learning in the
classroom.
Record discussion on flip charts. (10 minutes).
The groups
will then reconvene to present their
thoughts.
Conclusion and final thoughts: (7 minutes).
A resource list will also be provided to aid
workshop participants for future reference and learning.
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