Strategies for Active Learning
By Wayne Jennings
Check to see if you can use any of these activities to make your program more "hands-on."
- Service learning at school
- Service learning in the community
- Panels, debates
- Advisor program
- Personal learning plans
- Reflection time
- Newspapers
- Write newspaper
- Class meetings
- Field trips
- Speakers
- Technology
- Word processing
- Internet
- Graphics
- Power point
- Video production
- Running a business
- Clubs, activities program
- World as classroom
- Student input for curriculum
- Governance participation
- Internships
- Mentors
- Drama, role playing
- Gardening
- Greenhouse
- Lab work
- Tour guide
- Project 120
- STARS
- Community based learning