This training seminar focused on activity-based teaching strategies. The agenda included introducing active learning approaches, sharing experiences with hands-on activities from their own education, discussing definitions of active learning, and exploring specific techniques like think-pair-share, brainstorming, and cooperative learning. Participants developed sample lesson plans using strategies such as debates, experiments, and student-generated test questions to promote analysis, collaboration, and lifelong learning among their students.

1. Professional Development Training for
Teachers
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2. Activity Based Teaching and Teaching
Strategies
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3. ▪ Welcome participants to the seminar.
▪ Introduce yourself and state your role as facilitator.
▪ Ask participants to introduce themselves (name and role).
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Introduction and Welcome

4. What is activity-based learning (ABL) & Child Centered Approach?
• Identify active learning opportunities
• Role of motivation to start activity
• Learning in the classrooms
• Understanding the different perspectives towards child centered
learning
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Training Agenda

5. • Remembering a joyful learning experience from your school
life or just outside school.
• The trainer will share her personal experience.
• Teachers will verbally be asked to share their experiences.
• The trainer will ask the teachers to share it with their pair and
then the experiences will be shared with the whole class.
Volunteers will be randomly selected to share their peer’s
information.
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Task-1

6. • Distribute stickynotes and ask participants to write only one
sentence on the paper and paste it on the wall.
• This sentence summary should explain and summarize the
important idea behind the previous task.
• The trainer will try to get the participants probe about their
learning in the context of Active Learning.
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One Sentence Summary

7. • Narrate the story of ONCE A LITTLE BOY by Helen Buckley
• Reflect on the story
• What went wrong in the story?
• What similarities or differences could you identify?
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Reflect on the Story

8. • Active learning is a process whereby students engage in
activities, such as reading, writing, discussion, or problem
solving that promote analysis, creation, and evaluation of
class content.
• Discuss the above definition for clarity and proceed with ideas
that can help in the learning process.
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What is Active Learning?

9. • Active learning helps students to become 'lifelong learners’
• Discuss the statement and ask teachers to share examples
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10. Learning Pyramid
Lecture
Reading
Audiovisual
Demonstration
Discussion
Practice doing
Teach others/
immediate use
AVERAGE STUDENT
RETENTION RATES
%
%
%
%
%
%
%
Source: National Training Laboratories, Bethel, Maine
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11. Task
• According to the pyramid give a
percentage (number) out of 100 for each
teaching style.
• Research has shown that knowledge
retention can be significantly increased by
incorporating active learning strategies into 11

12. Learning Pyramid
Lecture
Reading
Audiovisual
Demonstration
Discussion
Practice doing
Teach others/
immediate use
AVERAGE STUDENT
RETENTION RATES
5%
10%
20%
30%
75%
50%
90%
Source: National Training Laboratories, Bethel, Maine
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13. How do you like to get the training?
Ask participants what do they expect from the trainers
during these 5 days of training?
How should we teach them?
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14. • Develop Communicative Skills
• Develop Collaboration skills
• Encourage students to take responsibility for their own learning
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Some Goals of Active Learning

15. • Make a list of every active learning activity or exercise you
can think of in one minute.
• Pair with your partner and discuss in one minute.
• Share with the audience through the Active Learning Activity
about how does your pair define active learning in two
minutes.
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Task 1

16. Examples of
Active
Learning
Methods
• Think-Pair-Share
• Collaborative Learning Groups
• Games
• Student Debates
• Concept Mapping
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Steps & Tips for using Think-Pair-Share
Ask a question. Give students a
minute to two to
discuss the question
and work out an
answer.
Ask students to get
together in pairs or
at most, groups with
three or four
students.
Ask for responses
from some or all of
the pairs or small
groups.
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18. Task 2
How many things can you think are;
Sweet?
Salty?
Sour?
Bitter?
Etc.
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19. What strategy do you think we have used right now?
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20. • A simple technique that can involve an entire class in a
discussion.
• The instructor introduces a topic or problem and then asks
for student input.
• Works well with pair-share
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Brainstorming

21. 1. Create an open-ended question or topic.
2. State rules before starting the session.
3. Set a time limit.
4. Do not add evaluation or comments during brainstorming.
5. Have students/pairs/groups share brainstorming with the
entire class.
6. Correct misconceptions and summarize thoughts at the end
of the session.
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Tips for Using Brainstorming

22. Cooperative Learning is an instructional method in which
students work in small groups to accomplish a common
learning goal with the guidance of the teacher.
Teachers get the chance to work on students’ communication
and soft skills, which are valuable for students’ success in life
and work, integrating them in school curricula.
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Cooperative Learning

23. Mix-Freeze-Pair
Gallery Walk
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Some Cooperative Learning Strategies

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Discussions

25. MIND MAP
 Making notes with keywords and images.
 Visual and sensory tools at our disposal.
 Recollect information for long time.

26. AN EXAMPLE OF MIND MAP FOR SCALAR
QUANTITIES

28. • Mind mapping in the classrooms

29. Activities
Student-generated Test Questions
 After finishing a lesson plan,
ask students to prepare
between three and five test
questions of their own
related to the lesson
material.
Role Plays and
Dramatization
 Mostly used for teaching
History, Geography and
Languages.

30. Quiz
 The primary function of these frequent classroom quizzes is
to evaluate student learning in relation to the teachers
instructional methods.
How can this be used in Assessment for Learning?

31. Select any 2-3 strategies of your choice
& develop 1 specific content based activity in your
groups
 Debates
 Drills
 Work Trips
 Scientific Experiments
 Role-Plays
 Quizzes
 Think-Pair-Share
 Interactive Classroom
Games
 Discovery Learning
 Student Made Test
Questions
 Peer Tutoring
 Brainstorming
 Gallery Walk

32. Thank You
Take a Break
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