Introduction
Purpose and Outcomes:
This tutorial is meant to give you ideas about how and why you should incorporate active learning in your teaching and also to give you a sense of how active learning can be used beneficially with diverse groups of students. Participants who complete this online tutorial will gain knowledge and/or develop skills in multiculturalism on college campuses, successful practices for enabling all students to achieve their academic goals, and identification of resources for and experiences in teaching and working in diverse environments.
Overview:
Introduction: This section contains two subcategories (Active Learning and Diversity and Diverse Learning Environments) that provide background and definitions of key concepts of the tutorial. They are not exhaustive resources, but they do provide a solid foundation.
Presentations and Readings: This section includes a brief compilation of literature that argues for the benefits of connecting diversity and active learning. This section also includes two complete presentations from the seminar that expand on this argument and explore how to make this connection effectively.
Activities: There are three activities that are designed to reinforce your learning and provide you with the opportunity to apply this learning to your work by developing or improving an activity selected from your own teaching and work arena.
Quiz: This brief quiz will check your learning.
Preliminary Questions:
It may help, before you go any further in this tutorial, to reflect on what you already know about active learning and diversity and to set goals for yourself about what you want to learn. Start a journal using either a word processing or a hand-written entry approach. Answer the following questions. These questions should help prepare you to:
- Form, clarify, and/or confirm you knowledge about active learning and diversity.
- Think critically about the material you will be reading in this tutorial.
- Reflect on your experience(s) in light of the content and readings in this tutorial.
- Formulate questions about what you want to know about active learning and diversity in your work or teaching activities.
1. Thinking about Active Learning.
- How are you using active learning in your work and/or teaching activities?
- How successful do you think you are?
- What else do you need to know about using active learning?
- What would you like to know or to change about your teaching and/or management/institutional practices?
2. Thinking about Diversity.
- How successful are you or how satisfied are you with how you deal with diversity in your work and/or teaching environment?
- What barriers in addressing the needs of the diverse learners in your classroom and/or your institution are you experiencing?
- What resources do you have to assist you in addressing diversity in your practice as a teacher and/or administrator?
3. The Intersection of Active Learning and Diversity. - How do you integrate Active Learning and Diversity in your work?
- What success do you have or what frustrations do you have in doing this?
- What questions do you have and/or what do you want to know about integrating active learning and diversity in your work and/or teaching activities.
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