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Interactive Learning Methods: Enhancing Engagement and Collaboration

Join Dr. Wendy Jolliffe to explore interactive learning techniques, cooperative learning benefits, and implementing group activities in education. Discover effective teaching styles and foster collaborative skills for student success.

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Interactive Learning Methods: Enhancing Engagement and Collaboration

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  1. Making learning genuinely interactive 30 January 2015 Dr Wendy Jolliffe

  2. Outline of session

  3. What is learning?

  4. Forming Groups • Stand up! • Put a hand up and high five to pair up with a partner • Think time – think about the question: How much do you know about making learning interactive? • Take turns sharing the answer with your partner • Join up with another pair 1 > 2> 3> move • Getting to know each other: share your scar story!

  5. Reviewing Teaching Styles • Rally table – what different approaches do you use? • Place on a continuum: transmissive → constructivist (learning by doing) • What is the role of talk for learning? • How do we facilitate it?

  6. 95% Teach 80% Experi- ence 70% Discuss 50% See & Hear 30% See 20% Hear 10% Read We Learn. . . 100 90 80 70 60 50 40 20 0 William Glasser, 1986

  7. Cooperative learning: an inclusive pedagogy

  8. What is genuine cooperative learning? Johnson and Johnson (2000, 2005) – it requires the following key elements: P Positive interdependence I Individual accountability G Group and individual reflection S Small group skills F Face-to-face interaction

  9. Benefits of CL Three main categories of advantages (Johnson & Johnson, 1999, Slavin, 1995, 1996, Sharan, 1990): 1. Higher academic achievement 2. Enhanced inter-personal relationships 3. Greater psychological health and social competence Pupils in Year 7 learning mathematics: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nqCFTjoMd5o

  10. So why is it not more commonly used? We are not born cooperative – we have to learn the skills of cooperating

  11. Five Key Steps to Implementing Cooperative Learning • 1.Establish class cohesion • Carry out team building activities • Teach conflict resolution skills • Teaching the skills of working cooperatively • Incorporate cooperative learning into lessons beginning with partner work

  12. Using structures

  13. Implementing Cooperative Learning • Informal • Formal cooperative learning • Class and group cohesion • Using a range of structures – matching to different parts of a lesson

  14. Teachers need support too!

  15. Any questions? w.m.jolliffe@hull.ac.uk

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