https://padlet.com/suzanorwell/5qt4wdenzoq4 Made with serendipity en-us 2019-10-27 16:22:13 UTC 2020-09-02 18:24:28 UTC hello@padlet.com suzanorwell https://padlet.com/suzanorwell/5qt4wdenzoq4/wish/403031676 Post something here..anything you want to say or share using text, images or videos. Just click on the + sign below and start sharing :)]]> 2019-10-27 16:22:54 UTC https://padlet.com/suzanorwell/5qt4wdenzoq4/wish/403031676 https://padlet.com/suzanorwell/5qt4wdenzoq4/wish/409074301 2019-11-09 23:08:47 UTC https://padlet.com/suzanorwell/5qt4wdenzoq4/wish/409074301 https://padlet.com/suzanorwell/5qt4wdenzoq4/wish/409544186 Greetings. My name is Panteleimon and I am a third year PhD student from Georgia. I must admit that until this day I have encountered active learning only on several occasions. Significant amount of Georgian public schools still implement the Soviet educational model, where the teacher or the professor is a superior being and there is a significant gap between them and students. 
Several private schools have been using the active learning method for a while and the positive results are clearly visible. I had some experience with the Socratic and Harkness table method. Teachers definitely were using active learning and team based learning methodology. In the result, I was amazed by the competence and the performance level of the students, even from the lowest performing ones. 
I reckon, that the main problem in the state universities is the lack of attention and the attendance. Judging from my own experience, the classes are either overcrowded or evidently under attended. At the moment, it seems rather difficult to equip classes of 150-200 people with the active learning methodology, but in the smaller groups, above mentioned methodology clearly works. With the help of my supervisor, we have been trying to implement a specific type of team based learning methodology in the groups of 10-15 people, by using the team contest of specific, Jeopardy-like questions, which increased the attendance and the average grade in case of the majority of students. ]]> 2019-11-11 16:29:32 UTC https://padlet.com/suzanorwell/5qt4wdenzoq4/wish/409544186 https://padlet.com/suzanorwell/5qt4wdenzoq4/wish/409662987 Hello, I am Diana, a PhD student from Tbilisi State University. I have 3 years teaching experience with different age groups. I worked as a Georgian language teacher at a primary school in Azerbaijani speaking region of Georgia and at a language center with adults. Before started teaching at school we had had some preparatory workshops including active learning methodology. I, together with my colleagues, always tried to use this approach in practice but had difficulties in organizing activities (time frame, discipline) often times, after some experience it became easier and more interesting not only for pupils but also for me. step by step active learning became the main form of learning and teaching in my practice.]]> 2019-11-11 20:01:12 UTC https://padlet.com/suzanorwell/5qt4wdenzoq4/wish/409662987 https://padlet.com/suzanorwell/5qt4wdenzoq4/wish/409995044 2019-11-12 15:02:44 UTC https://padlet.com/suzanorwell/5qt4wdenzoq4/wish/409995044