A BOOK TO ASSIST TEACHER PLANNING, IMPROVE LESSON QUALITY,AND ILLUMINATE YOUR APPROACH TO TEACHINGFOR TEACHERS AND STUDENT TEACHERSA key to real learning and understanding is student engagement and enjoyment. In Active Learningexperienced teachers share plans for complete lessons that motivate students through active involvementin the process of learning. Ancient Greece comes alive when students dramatise historical events.Architectural styles translated into movement, sound, and body shapes are easy to remember. Studentcreatedboard games make reviewing maths facts fun. This book will assist teacher planning, improvelesson quality, and illuminate your approach to teaching. Measurable objectives, step-by-step procedures,optional teacher scripts, student handouts, evaluation tools, and enrichment activities provide structurefor lessons to use in maths, languages, social studies and art.Students are actively learning when they are intensely engaged, mentally or physically. Active learningis vigorous, lively, energetic, intense, strong, and effective. Active learning is involved learning; it takesplace when the learners are excited, involved, mentally alert, and caught up in the experience.Pat Hollingsworth is the director of University School at the University of Tulsa in Oklahoma. In additionto her duties as director, she teaches art, kindergarten, and university graduate classes. She is a boardmember of the National Association for Gifted Children; coauthor of Smart Art and Kinetic Kaleidoscope;and editor, illustrator, and coauthor of the SAILS (Students Active Interdisciplinary Learning Series)curriculum kit.
