Beyond the Lecture: Active Learning Strategies to Engage Your Students
January 15, 2025
2:00 PM - 3:30 PM
Location
Teaching Excellence Building (TEB), Room 201
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Are you looking for ways to break up your lectures and engage students in the classroom? Incorporating active learning into your teaching can facilitate student engagement and increase learning. In this workshop, we will explore the how and why of active learning through hands-on and interactive activities. You’ll learn about various active learning strategies you can implement in your own teaching and discuss considerations for different class sizes, types, and disciplines. You’ll leave this workshop with a range of active learning strategies, from low to high preparation, that you can implement right away.
By the end of this workshop, participants will be able to:
- Describe what active learning is and reasons for incorporating it into the classroom
- Assess the appropriateness of various techniques, depending on the classroom context: lesson’s content, students’ needs, classroom space, and instructor’s resources and availability.
- Identify active learning strategies for use in their specific classes
EVENT FORMAT: This workshop will be held on-campus, in-person in room 201 in the Teaching Excellence Building (TEB) located on 924 S. Morgan Street.
EVENT LEAD: Lauren Woods, lmwoods@uic.edu
EVENT CO-FACILITATOR: Emily Potratz, epotra2@uic.edu
Inclusion and Accessibility Information: CATE is committed to making events accessible. CATE’s in-person events typically involve a combination of presentation and discussion-based activities. We welcome ASL interpreters, note-takers, and accompanying assistants to all CATE events. The TEB is wheelchair accessible with an elevator to the second floor space. The TEB space is equipped with fixed-height tables that are moveable and can be reconfigured. There are single-occupancy, all-gender, accessible bathrooms on the second and basement levels of TEB. If you have any accessibility questions, requests, or to coordinate accommodations, please contact the CATE team at teaching@uic.edu.
Date posted
Nov 25, 2024
Date updated
Nov 25, 2024