Engaged Learning Strategies - captivating and including all learners

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Engaged Learning Strategies - captivating and
including all learners

• Nancy H. Cummings, EdD, ATC, LAT, CSCS
• Department Chair, Physical Education
• Director, Collaborative Research
• Florida Southern College

SEATA 4th Biennial Educators Conference, 2012
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Agenda

• Define engaged learning
• Types of learners
• Blooms Revised Taxonomy and learning strategies
• Pair learning strategies/activities with our
  students
• Question Answer

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What is your current path???
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What does engaged learning mean to you???

• Affinity Diagram...

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Engaged Learning

• Actively engage students in discovering new
  knowledge in a sequenced, developmentally
  appropriate way to enable them to evaluate
  evidence critically, make informed judgments, and
  act ethically. (AACU, 2009)

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Out of curiosity - to engage

• transitive verb (Miriam Websters Dictionary)
• 1 to offer (as one's word) as security for a
  debt or cause
• 2 a obsolete to entangle or entrap in or as if
  in a snare or bog
• b to attract and hold by influence or power
• c to interlock with mesh also to cause
  (mechanical parts) to mesh ltengage the clutchgt
• 3 to bind (as oneself) to do something
  especially to bind by a pledge to marry
• 4 a to provide occupation for involve ltengage
  him in a new projectgt
• b to arrange to obtain the use or services
  of hire ltengage a lawyergt
• 5 a to hold the attention of engross lther
  work engages her completelygt
• b to induce to participate ltengaged the shy
  boy in conversationgt
• 6 a to enter into contest or battle with
  ltengage the enemygt
• b to bring together or interlock (weapons)
• 7 to deal with especially at length

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Key definitions for us

• 5 a to hold the attention of engross lther
  work engages her completelygt
• b to induce to participate ltengaged the shy
  boy in conversationgt

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• Students intellectual capacities emerge
  gradually when educators foster their holistic
  growth through continuous self-reflection,
  seamless and authentic curricular and
  cocurricular experiences that steadily increase
  in challenge, and appropriate levels of support.
  (AACU, 2009)

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The FSC version

• Experiencing the world beyond the classroom is
  an essential part of your Florida Southern
  education. As a national leader in engaged
  learning, we believe education should be not be a
  spectator sport. With a low student-to-faculty
  ratio, you will be at the center of your
  education. (FSC, 2012)

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• We are nationally recognized for our focus on
  engaged learning. Each academic program
  encourages students to engage in research
  projects with professors, performances on our
  stage, exhibitions in our gallery, study abroad,
  internships and community service. Our learning
  is hands-on, and you will benefit most from the
  FSC experience. (FSC, 2012)

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Why does engaged learning work?

• Movement prepares the brain to learn (Madigan,
  Kovalik, Jensen, Colcombe Thompson, Van Praag)
• The benefits of 45 seconds of activity can last
  15-20 minutes (Madigan, Ratey)
• Employ 7 steps as often as possible to release
  BDNF - the SPARK for learning (Ratey, Madigan,
  Kubota)
• Crossing the midline facilitates the brain to
  organize itself (Dennison, Ratey)
• The brain uses motor patterns as the framework
  for other learning (Jensen, Ratey, Madigan)
• Memory is best retrieved when learned through
  movement (Jensen)

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• The truth
• we learn 10 of what we read
• we learn 20 of what we hear
• we learn 30 of what we see
• we learn 50 of what we hear and see
• we learn 70 of what we discuss with others
• we learn 80 of what we personally experience
• we learn 95 of what we teach others
• (Holt Kysilka, 2004)
• Ask yourself the tough question about your
  classroom settings...

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Types of learners - old model

• Visual learners -
• Kinesthetic learners -
• Auditory learners -
• Stir the Class...

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Types of learners - old model

• Visual learners - students learn best by seeing
  things or watching
• Kinesthetic learners - students learn best by
  doing, moving their bodies, clapping, working
  with their hands, creating things, and performing
• Auditory learners - students learn best by
  hearing things, using their ears and their voices

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Types of learners - new model

• Comprehension learners - students draw a quick
  mental sketch of the material to be grasped,
  using analogies, metaphors, and ties to personal
  experience, and then fill in and alter that
  framework as they acquire more and more detailed
  information
• Operations learners - students build up a
  framework piece by piece only as they acquire
  knowledge of the details (Rhem, 1995)

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• Learning styles of undergraduate students become
  similar to their role models (teachers). (Shein
  and Chiou, 2011)

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Can we combine both models for todays students?

• Visual vs Kinesthetic vs Auditory
• Comprehension vs Operations
• Are they exclusive???
• How are we training are students???

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How do we pair instruction to our learners?

• Table Web...

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Blooms Revised Taxonomy
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Engaged Learning refresher

• Actively engage students in discovering new
  knowledge in a sequenced, developmentally
  appropriate way to enable them to evaluate
  evidence critically, make informed judgments, and
  act ethically. (AACU, 2009)

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What can you do different...

• Reflection...

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What is your path now?
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Question and Answer
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Thank you!

• ncummings_at_flsouthern.edu

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References

• AACU - American Association for Colleges and
  Universities webpage publications
• FSC - Florida Southern College webpage
• Holt and Kysilka (2004)
• Rhem, J. (1995) Deep/surface approaches to
  learning An introduction. The National Teaching
  and Learning Forum, 5(1), p1.
• Schein and Chiou. (2011) Teachers as role models
  for students learning styles. Social Behavior
  Personality An International Journal, 39(8),
  p1097.