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CREATING an ACTIVE LEARNING
ENVIRONMENT in the
SCIENCE and MATHEMATICS Classroom
Taking the Lead: An Interview with Larry
Rosenstock
CSM Faculty Lounge
Oct. 3 - Fall 2014
Retention of Information
After 24 hours, what percent of
information is typically retained by
students in a lecture environment?
a.
b.
c.
d.
e.
5%
10%
20%
40%
50%
Passive vs. Active Learning
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Lecture
Reading
Audio-Visual
Demonstration
Discussion
Practice by Doing
Teaching Others
Teaching Method
(Sousa, 2001)
How the brain learns: A
classroom teacher's guide (2nd
ed.). Thousand Oaks, CA: Corwin
Press.
What is Active Learning?
If I just told you, wouldn’t I be
a hypocrite?
Ever hear of this?
High Tech High operates eleven schools in
San Diego County: two elementary
schools, four middle schools, and five high
schools. All of these schools serve a
diverse, lottery-selected student
population; all embody the High Tech High
design principles of personalization, adult
world connection, common intellectual
mission, and teacher as designer.
•99.5% of HTH's graduates have gone on to college, with approximately
70% attending four-year programs such as Johns Hopkins University,
MIT, Stanford University, Olin College, Howard University, University of California
at Berkeley, University of California at Los Angeles, New York University
and Northwestern University.
•About 50-55% of HTH graduates are 1st generation college students.
•Over 30% of HTH alumni enter math or science fields (vs. 17% national rate)
•HTH’s African-American students outperform district and statewide peers
by a wide margin vis-à-vis test scores. Percentage who take chemistry, physics,
and advanced math (100%), and college entry (100%).
Taking the Lead: An Interview with Larry Rosenstock
High Tech High's founding principal and CEO speaks about its
innovative teaching and learning model.
What do I do?
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Include your students in the learning
process.
Punctuate lectures-deliver a series of
smaller lectures in place of one long
lecture.
Teaching cycle for Math 75 last summer. (93% pass rate)
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Inserted active learning techniques.
• Students earn homework credit through
homework presentations.
• Daily quiz after presentations.
• Mini-lecture for next class’
homework/presentation/quiz cycle.
• Lecture problems with students working
in groups with instructor as facilitator.
Words of Wisdom
•When
I hear, I forget.
•When
I hear and see, I remember a little.
•When
I hear, see, and ask questions about it or
discuss it, I begin to understand.
•When
I hear, see, discuss, and do, I acquire
knowledge and skill.
(Silberman, 1996)
Interesting Quotes I came across
when preparing for this lounge …
• “Knowledge and Action are One” – Krishnananda
• “THERE can be no doubt that all our knowledge begins
with experience.” - Kant
• “Knowledge begins as an action”- Piaget
• “There is only one thing more painful than learning from
experience and that is not learning from experience”Archibald MacLeish