Tuesday 21 October 2014

Active learning strategies - Think Pair Share (Carol and Nikita)


This strategy helps to collect information on the topic. Different concepts can be explained through this strategy mostly on life skills, work skills mostly on career path, various training's can also include this strategy. It is like a brainstorm exercise where in thinking process is given importance.

This strategy enables to understand how each student perceive and understand different from each other. It also brings many ideas and views even which a trainer is unaware. It triggers each learner's mindset to think and brings out to express their understanding. This strategy builds learner's relationship with their classmates, accept each other's views and also it makes them easy to express their opinion. This discovers that each learner is unique.

They can evaluate which ideas they think are the best, most creative and most unique.
They also become confident while sharing their views with peers.
It is also called as Turn and Talk.
It also develops their communication skills especially to articulate their opinions.
It brings about collaborative learning as well as positive changes in students especially confidence and self esteem and respect each other's ideas.
It also allows the students to share their learning as well as give and receive feedback.
It provides an opportunity for learner's to share their views comfortably as it is pair sharing.
This can be used mostly to recap and close the session in order to know whether the concepts taught were clear.

It can be avoided when new topics are introduced.

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