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Teaching Tips | Experiential Learning Model

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Aristotle once said: "For the things that we have to learn, before we can do them, we learn by doing them". The Experiential Learning Model is designed around this concept. While designing your next lesson, learn how to maximize a learner's understanding of important concepts.

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Definition: When students are interacting with each other, and students are able to engage with the teacher and their peers.

Pros: Builds social skills, encourages communication, questions are answered right away, and it facilitates organic learning.

Cons: Time management, comfortableness of the student, and the students that talk, learn, the ones that don’t, don’t benefit fully.

Example: Think, Pair, Share - Students think while professor is speaking, pair up to solve a problem, and then share with the class or other groups their answers.

Video Summary: Teacher gave problem, students came up with answer in groups, and then students shared with other groups. Allowed direct instruction as well. Had all students in the group answer questions so they were all interacting

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Definition: Students are provided information on the subject, and turned lose to learn material on their own. Teacher gives resources to succeed. “You are the guide on the side”. You are providing a project or a problem, giving them resources, and allowing them to solve/explore on their own.

Pros: Students develop problem solving skills, help students understand cause and effect through trial and error, and provides a much deeper level of learning which allows students to feel confident.

Cons: Lots of work for teachers, creativity for different strategies, students can get off task due to lack of structure, and you have to let them struggle to feel confident.

Examples: Textbook guiding, creating timelines, scientific experimentation, and web quest.

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Definition: Teaching strategy that involves groups when you allow students to work with one another and with the teacher. Collaboration is the idea that you allow students to work together, they are expanding their learning. Filtered the language through their peers, they may get questions answered that they were originally too nervous to ask in front of the entire class.

Pros: Differentiates students learning, deep understanding of material, improves critical thinking abilities, it helps your English language learners because they understand more this way than through direct instruction; they have a deeper understanding of the material.

Cons: Takes a lot of classroom management, not all students work at the same pace causing some students to fall behind, it’s often the same ones doing the talking, and they are the ones participating every time. The ones who stay quiet are the ones to keep quiet.
Example: Small groups and partner work

Video: The sideshows a group working and the management it takes to help foster the students' learning.

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Definition: When a teacher has information that students don’t have, the teacher will talk and the students will listen. Teachers instruct; students learn. This is part of the “I do” learning strategy. The teacher usually does all the explaining.

Pros: Fast, accurate information, teacher has full control.

Cons: Boring, not a lot of student engagement, younger students don't have as long of attention span, no teacher improvising, there is a possibility of little to no student involvement.

Video: The video shows how lessons are very systematic, and how direct instruction gives teachers almost a script of what to say in the lesson.

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Definition:
This type of instructional strategy allows for students to explore learning with hands-on activities, learning through reflection on doing, and applying their knowledge on the subject after completing the activity.

Pros:
-Allows hands on learning
-Able to explore more while student involvement grows
-Able to reflect on what they have already learned and able to apply knowledge in their own life or with certain subject areas

Cons:
- Takes a lot of time to plan
- Some require a lot of money
- Not every student gets the same experience and some students won't participate as much as others

How this learning works:
The students are able to apply the knowledge that they learned in the classroom to real world, hands-on activities.

Why this benefits the students:
This learning gives students the chance to get out of the classroom and apply what they have learned to the real world.

Summary of video:
There are five steps in the experiential learning model.
1. Students experience by doing an activity.
2. Students share about what they learned and observed.
3. Process where students analyze and reflect.
4. Generalize by connecting their experience to the real world.
5. Students take what they learned and apply it to similar situations they can take part in.

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-Definition: Little to no supervision by the teacher; provides students a topic to choose that they want to learn and choose how they want to learn it. The students work by themselves on the work they've been given with recourses and materials provided by the teacher. These are not collaborative, and students must keep themselves accountable.

-Pros: encourages the ability to stay focused, encourages having set goals and intentions for the student, gives the student the opportunity to find their strengths and weaknesses.

-Cons: students cannot discuss information with others, students can get distracted, they are on their own when it comes to the end result, they may lack motivation since they are not held accountable by a group.