It is so important that we are encouraging our students to continue learning throughout their life. How do you promote life-long learning?
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Interdependence in the classroom
Please share with us how you are increasing Interdepence in the classroom. Are you including collaboration and communication? Are your students building relationships in the classroom?
Increase emotional intelligence
Emotional intelligence is an important skill of all of our students. What are you doing in the classroom to promote emotional intelligence?
Classrooms full of students who believe in themselves
How are you helping your students increase their belief in themselves?
Do you have an active learning lessons you would like to share?
We would love to hear about how you are incorporating active learning in the classroom. Please share with us how you are turning your classroom into an active collaborative space.
Technology use in the classroom
What technology tools are you using in the classroom to support a learner-centered environment?
Case-studies in the classroom
As Active Learning Leaders using case-studies in the classroom is an excellent way to bring in real-world situations. If you have created case-studies for your class please share it with us!
Personal Responsibility in the classroom
Please share with us ways you incorporate personal responsibility in the classroom.
Learning Leaders to Active Learning Leaders
After several discussions and votes we settled on the name Active Learning Leaders. We wanted our name to represent what we do, which is classroom focused on active learning.Recently Al Trujillo found a brochure, likely from the early 90’s, in which Palomar was promoting “The Learning Leaders”. I guess ALL is a revival of the past!
American Association of Community Colleges (AACC) supports active learning!
In response to President Barack Obama’s challenge to community colleges to educate an additional 5 million students with degrees, certificates, or other credentials by 2020 the AACC started on their 21st-Century Initiative. According to the 21st century initiative, “The American Association of Community Colleges (AACC) is leading advancement of the next era of community college’s development through its two-phase 21st-Century Initiative Phase 1, the 21st-Century Initiative Listening Tour, consisted of gathering information from a diverse group of stakeholders from across the country in the following areas: (1) student success, (2) Voluntary Framework of Accountability, (3) strategies for dealing with budget constraints, (4) big ideas for the future of community colleges, and (5) what AACC can do for members” (executive summary).
As part of the national listening tour, several points were made which support the mission of the Active Learning Leaders:
- Support the emergence of active student, learner-centered, cognition-based education, including discovery, experiential learning, and technology enhanced instruction.
- Integrate the use of mobile devices to enhance active teaching and learning and to increase access to college services.
- Foster engagement between and among students, faculty, and staff through the use of collaborative synchronous online strategies as a complementary tool to asynchronous and face-to-face teaching and learning, student support, and service delivery.
- Expand the use of social media to enhance student engagement in teaching, learning, and college services.
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