The Alhambra US Chamber is a nonprofit organization based in the US that promotes educational, cultural, and commercial exchange between the US and Muslim-majority nations. It engages in consulting, training, and partnerships to support this vision. The organization heads all global educational endeavors and focuses on innovative instruction to promote student and teacher success.

1. # The Alhambra US Chamber is a non profit NGO based in the United States, dedicated to the promotion of constructive educational, cultural and commercial exchange between the US and Muslim majority nations. It engages in a wide range of consulting, training and partnership activities to support that vision. Ambassador Sada Cumber , Chairman Secretary of State Geoffrey Connor , Vice Chair Anjum Malik , Co Founder and Managing Director Heads all educational endeavors worldwide Jonathan Black , Co Founder and Director of Research and Communication

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4. Innovative Instruction Student Success, Teacher Success Workshop 1 Active Learning Getting Started 1

5. Think… of a favorite student. Why do you feel that particular student a joy to teach? Pair… up with someone near you and share your thoughts. Share… together, come up with three adjectives that you both believe describe an exceptional student. Innovative Instruction Student Success is Teacher Success. 1

6. “ A student should be courteous among his/her teachers, sociable and cooperative in times of meetings/seminars in his/her clubs and organization, obedient to his/her teachers, should always be interested in many co-curricular activities and must put effort in them, must have the regularity in his/her homework; should be hardworking and determined to reach his/her goals, and be respectful to the teachers, staff and other elders around him/her. ” Please ask your partner to read the quote aloud to you; then, share your thoughts.

7. Courteous Sociable Cooperative Obedient Interested Regularity in his/her homework Hardworking Determined Respectful The Well-behaved Student Creative Positive Enthusiastic! Motivated The Engaged Learner d i f f e r e n t

8. Pair… up with someone near you and share your thoughts. Share… together, come up with three adjectives that you both believe describe an exceptional TEACHER. Teacher Success is Student Success. 4 Think… of a favorite TEACHER. Why does that teacher stand out in your mind? Why was that teacher successful.

9. Courteous Sociable Cooperative Obedient Interested Regularity Hardworking Determined Respectful The Well-Behaved Educator Creative Positive Enthusiastic! Motivated d i f f e r e n t CONSISTENT The Engaged Educator

10. ENGAGED TEACHERS & LEARNERS Design Your Classroom Your Lessons To Meet Your Goal Engage Students Facilitate Learning

11. The Traditional Classroom

12. The Traditional Classroom

15. d i f f e r e n t Think… of a typical classroom of students you have taught. How were your students similar? Different? Pair… up with someone near you and share your thoughts. Share… together, come up with differences that made your job more challenging. Similar

16. Social Economic Racial Intellectual Motivational Learning Styles Self-Esteem Physical Personality DIVERSITY

17. Social Economic Racial Intellectual Motivational Learning Styles Self-Esteem Physical Personality DIVERSITY “ Diversity in the world is a basic characteristic of human society, and also the key condition for a lively and dynamic world as we see today . ” Hu Jintao, Paramount Leader of the People's Republic of China * classroom world *

18. Social Economic Racial Intellectual Motivational Learning Styles Self-Esteem Physical Personality DIVERSITY “ Diversity in the world is a basic characteristic of human society, and also the key condition for a lively and dynamic classroom as we see today . ” Hu Jintao, Paramount Leader of the People's Republic of China

19. The lively and dynamic classroom?

21. = Traditional Classroom = Traditional = Traditional Active Learning PASSIVE Learning    = Traditional

22. ACTIVE LEARNING Student Centered Cooperative Learning Teach Others Demonstrate Discuss Practice Doing PASSIVE LEARNING Teacher Led Lecture Reading Audiovisual

23. Students are more likely to access their own prior knowledge , which is a key to learning. find personally meaningful problem solutions or interpretations. TOP TEN BENEFITS OF ACTIVE LEARNING

24. 3. Students receive more frequent and more immediate feedback. 4. The need to produce forces learners to retrieve information from memory rather than simply recognizing a correct statement. TOP TEN BENEFITS OF ACTIVE LEARNING

25. 5. Students increase their self-confidence and self-reliance. 6. For most learners, it is more motivating to be active than passive. TOP TEN BENEFITS OF ACTIVE LEARNING

26. 7. A task that you have done yourself or as part of a group is more highly valued . 8. Student conceptions of knowledge change , which in turn has implications for cognitive development. TOP TEN BENEFITS OF ACTIVE LEARNING

27. 9. Students who work together on active learning tasks learn to work with other people of different backgrounds and attitudes. TOP TEN BENEFITS OF ACTIVE LEARNING 10. Students learn strategies for learning itself by observing others.

28. Effective Cooperative Partners