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I used to take it for granted that in order to get students to do any sort of work, I needed to attach a grade to it. So I decided to try something radical: Don’t give them a quiz at all. Just let them do the Guided Practice and let that be that. What surprised me was that not only did the completion rates for Guided Practice not get worse, the students’ comprehension of basic ideas improved, and their work in class improved as well.Robert Talbert
The past years have witnessed the apparition of one of the largest educational revolutions of our time: many prognosticators trumpet how MOOCs and flipped classroom models are one of the most promising educational approaches of the last century. Paradoxically, those so-called “innovations” are incorporating none of the educational research produced over the past decades. MOOCs and flipped classrooms are merely recreating the same pedagogical structure without questioning the scientific validity of this model. The alternative is to put the “practice” in front of the “tell”.
Knowles’ theory of andragogy...emphasizes that adults are self-directed and expect to take responsibility for decisions.In practical terms, andragogy means that instruction for adults needs to focus more on the process and less on the content being taught. Strategies such as case studies, role playing, simulations, and self-evaluation are most useful. Instructors adopt a role of facilitator or resource rather than lecturer or grader.
