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Unit 25: Teacher Education and Teacher Freezingness

• Experiential Learning: Experiential learning is an approach to education that focuses on Notes
"learning by doing," on the participant's subjective experience. The role of the educator is to
design "direct experiences" that include preparatory and reflective exercises.
• Games/Experiments/Simulations: Games, experiments and simulations can be rich learning
environments for students. Students today have grown up playing games and using
interactive tools such as the Internet, phones, and other appliances. Games and simulations
enable students to olive real-world problems in a sage environment and enjoy themselves
while doing so.
• Inquiry-Guided Learning: With the inquiry method of instruction, students arrive at an
understanding of concepts by themselves and the responsibility for learning rests with
them. This method encourages students to build research skills that can be uses throughout
their educational experiences.
• Interdisciplinary Teaching: Interdisciplinary teaching involves combining two different topics
into one class. Instructors who participate4 in interdisciplinary teaching find that students
approach the material differently, while faculty members also have a better appreciation of
their own discipline content.
• Learner-Centered Teaching: Learner-Centered teaching means the student is at the center of
learning. The student assumes the responsibility for learning while the instructor is
responsible for facilitating the learning. Thus, the power in the classroom shifts to the
student.
• Learning communities: Communities bring people together for shared learning, discovery,
and the generation of knowledge. Within a learning community, all participants take
responsibility for achieving the learning goals. Most important, learning communities are
the process by which individuals come together to achieve learning goals.
• Lecture Strategies: Lectures are the way most instructors today learned in classes. However,
with today's students, lecturing does not hold their attention for very long, even though
they are a means of conveying information to students.
• Mobile Learning: Mobile Learning is any type of learning that happens when the learner is
not at a fixed location.
• Online/Hybrid Courses: Online and hybrid courses require careful planning and organization.
However, once the course is implemented, there are important considerations that are
different from traditional courses. Communication with students becomes extremely
important.
• Problem-Based Learning: Problem-based Learning (PBL) is an instructional method that
challenges students to "learn to learn," working in groups to seek solutions to real world
problems. The process replicates the commonly used systemic approach to resolving
problems or meeting challenges that are encountered in life, and will help prefer students
for their careers.
• Service Learning: Service learning is a type of teaching that combines academic content
with civic responsibility in some community project. The learning is structured and
supervised and enables the student to reflect on what has taken place.
• Social Networking Tools: Social networking tools enable faculty to engage students in new
and different means of communication.
• Teaching Diverse Students: Instructors today encounter a diverse population in their courses
and many times need assistance in knowing how to deal with them.
• Teaching with Case: Case studies present students with real-life problems and enable them
to apply what they have learned in the classroom to real life situations. Cases also encourage
students to develop logical problem solving skills and, if fuses in teams, group interaction
skills. Students define problems, analyze possible alternative actions and provide solutions
with a rationale for their choices.

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