Utilising Active Learning

Active learning incorporates understanding and knowing your learner and then using that information to correctly implement a theory or framework that best suits their learning style. Ensuring that this information is used to inform the planning creates learning experiences that meet all the needs of the diverse range of students within every classrooms.

The first step in knowing your learner is ascertaining and understanding their individual learning style. This information along with the multiple intelligences the students engages in and whether or not they are a digital immigrant or native provides us with the foundation information needed to decipher the correct learning theory for the student. It is vital to ensure that this information is accurate and it is often best to collect the information through a range of activities and, if possible, at different times of the day over a few days to provide the most accurate understandings.

From here the information can be used to plan and implement learning experiences which align with the most effective and productive learning theory for that individual. Determining the most effective theory means that the learning experiences planned with be relevant, authentic and meaningful to the learner.

Following this simple guide to active learning will provide learning managers with the foundation information required to meet the needs of each student in their class and ensure that the learning experiences are engaging and successful.