Active Learning Strategies for EFL Learners PDF 2023

Tanta University Faculty of Education Department of Curriculum& Instruction Active Learning Strategies for EFL Learners Level Two 1st Term By Al-Shaimaa Mahmoud Al-Rashidy...

Tanta University Faculty of Education Department of Curriculum& Instruction Active Learning Strategies for EFL Learners Level Two 1st Term By Al-Shaimaa Mahmoud Al-Rashidy Lecturer of TEFL Tanta University 2023  Chapter Three Active Learning in Online Teaching Page 106  1. Polling Polling is a quick, easy way to check the opinions or thought processes of your students by posing a statement or question and gathering their responses in real time. Zoom’s Polling feature allows for simple multiplechoice polls, including Likert-type questions that ask your students to state their level of agreement with a statement, assessing the level of student interest on a list of topics, or binary yes/no or true/false questions. Simple polls can be used at the start, end, or at select points during an online class session to engage and assess your students.  Tools Zoom’s Polling feature  How to Implement Determine your purpose for conducting a simple multiple-choice poll in your online class session by considering the following: What information would you like to get from your students in real-time? How will you use the poll results / information collected?  How to Implement Here are some possible ways you can use polls for active learning in your online class session: As an ice breaker to create a class environment conducive for active learning e.g., Which of the following career paths is your top choice at this moment? Check background knowledge to determine what information your students should encounter or engage with next  How to Implement Prior to launching the poll, provide verbal and written instructions on how to complete the poll. Once launched, you will be able to see in real time the number of students and the percentage of the class that have responded to the poll, the time elapsed, and the results of the poll. End the poll when the allocated time is up. You can then choose whether to show the class the results of the poll. Either way, be sure to directly address or have your students respond to the results of the poll, and relate it back to the purpose of the poll.  Alternative Tools for Polling CourseWorks (Canvas) Quiz has an ungraded survey feature that can be used for polls both synchronously and asynchronously. PollEverywhere can be used for more advanced polling activities such as using open-ended text questions or images. Unlike Zoom, the results from PollEverywhere can be directly transported to CourseWorks (Canvas).  2. Think-Pair-Share This active learning strategy involves posing a short problem, scenario, or question to your students and giving them the time and opportunity to complete the following steps: 1. Think through the problem, scenario, or question individually. 2. Pair with a partner to discuss. 3. Share their findings or takeaways with the rest of the class.  2. Think-Pair-Share This strategy not only gives your students time to process and apply their knowledge and skills on their own first, it also gives them the opportunity to consult and collaborate with a peer.  Tools Zoom’s Share Screen feature Zoom’s Breakout Rooms feature  How to implement Think: First, pose a short problem, scenario, or question for your students to work through on their own for about 30 seconds to a minute. Read the question out loud while also displaying it on a slide that you share with your students using Zoom’s Share Screen feature. As your students are thinking through the problem, click on Zoom’s Breakout Rooms tool so you can enter the number of breakout rooms needed in order for each to contain a pair of students.  How to implement Zoom conveniently displays the number of participants per room based on the number of participants present and the number of rooms you select. If you have an odd number of students, subtract one from the total number of students and divide that by two to get the number of rooms you should create; Zoom will automatically assign one of the breakout rooms with three students instead of a pair.  How to implement Pair: When your students are ready to pair up, let Zoom automatically assign them to the breakout rooms. Give your students about 5 minutes to introduce themselves to their partners and share their thoughts on the assigned problem. To help your students keep track of the given problem and directions, you can broadcast the problem and instructions through a message to all the breakout rooms.  How to implement Share: When your students are ready to share, close the breakout rooms so all your students return to the main room. Ask for volunteers to share their answers or discussion takeaways by having them use the hand-raise feature in Zoom. Unmute one volunteer at a time so they can acknowledge their partner and share their response with the entire class. Mute the volunteer who has spoken before unmuting the next one. Repeat this process until you are satisfied with the number of contributions and/or perspectives shared. Alternative active learning strategies with similar setups Note-Taking Pairs: Students work in pairs to improve their individual class notes. Three-Step Interview: Students work in pairs and take turns interviewing each other, and report what they learn to another pair. Peer Instruction: Students first answer a given poll question on their own. Then, students pair up and explain their rationale. Finally, students answer the poll question again  3. Minute Paper A minute paper is a short “paper” that students individually complete in a minute (or more realistically, under five minutes) in response to a given prompt. Minute papers provide students with opportunities to reflect on course content and disciplinary skills as well as their self-awareness as learners. This active learning strategy simultaneously allows you to quickly check your students’ knowledge. Minute papers can be assigned at the start, during, or at the end of your online class session as you see fit  Tools Zoom’s Share Screen feature Poll Everywhere  How to Implement Before your online class session, write an open-ended prompt that students can respond to in less than five minutes Example prompts include: What questions about today’s topic are you most interested in exploring? What was the most important point of today’s lesson?  How to Implement Before your online class session, write an open-ended prompt that students can respond to in less than five minutes Example prompts include: What questions about today’s topic are you most interested in exploring? What was the most important point of today’s lesson?  How to Implement When your prompt is ready, use it to create an open-ended poll in Poll Everywhere (external to Zoom). Using Poll Everywhere to collect minute paper responses allows you to either display the responses as they come in or download a CSV spreadsheet containing all the responses to skim for trends and themes later.  How to Implement While student responses are never displayed with student identities during the poll, you may need that information for the purpose of assigning participation grades or to respond to students individually. For this information to be recorded in the CSV spreadsheet, you will need to restrict the poll to registered participants only. Your students will then need to log in to their Columbia Poll Everywhere accounts to participate in the poll.  How to Implement During your online class session, when you are ready for students to complete their minute papers, activate your open- ended poll and use Zoom’s Share Screen tool to share the Poll Everywhere window with your students. While the instructions for responding to the poll will be shown via shared screen, you should also read the instructions out loud to ensure all students receive that information. Alternative active learning strategies with similar setups What’s the Problem: Students categorize example problems according to the principles and strategies needed to solve them. Muddiest Point: Students share their responses to the prompt “What was the muddiest (most confusing) point in _____ ?”