#activity asl752fall2019

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W5 Journal Re-do

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Interactive Activities: Color By Numbers/Are you available?

Interactive activities allow students to use what they have learned with each other.  During this time, the teacher can facilitate learning with feedback or additional guidance.  It also provides the teacher the opportunity to see how students are progressing in using the ASL.  Color by Numbers is a simple activity for ASL 1 students to put into practice signing and reading both numbers and colors.  One manner of doing this is through online color by number worksheets that the teacher can print.  Both students will have the same worksheets.  However, only one will know the colors which matches the numbers.  This student, will sign the numbers and colors, while the other student does the coloring.  They student can reverse roles with a different worksheet. There are several Color-by-numbers apps that students can download.  However, I have not been able to see how to use this in a paired or group setting.   Another alternative is color the square.  Students are provided with a template with squares.  Students can direct which square to color a specific color. 

Another activity is an agenda/calendar activity.  Students are given a two week calendar.  Students should complete the calendar with chores or activities.   Four to five days should be left available.  Students will ask each other when they are available to do a certain activity.  Once they are free, the students will add each other’s name and activity to their calendar.  They will repeat this until all the days are filled. 

 https://www.nureva.com/blog/education/15-active-learning-activities-to-energize-your-next-college-class

https://www.brown.edu/sheridan/teaching-learning-resources/teaching-resources/classroom-practices/active-learning/interactive

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The Jigsaw Method

This cooperative learning strategy increases student engagement, encourages collaboration, and results in better learning. Learn how to use the basic Jigsaw ...

 Interactive Teaching Methods and Activities

      As a teacher, I am also a student.  In one aspect in being in the role of a student, I am learning what works for my class and what doesn’t.  With interactive activities, I can see the outcome of my lesson planning. One activity that I have used is the survey/tally activity where students take surveys of their classmates favorite foods and activities. Watching the students ask each other questions and seeing the responses was especially thrilling for me! They had to ask me too!  When asking me, I can take an informal assessment of their signs, structure, and expressions.  Then, offer brief feedback. Seeing students interact, especially in using the target language, added a different energy to the lesson.  Although the activity appeared to work, I would like to find ways to tweak it.   I like the idea of the JigSaw Puzzle Method.  In this, I would create centers for learning food signs, beverage signs, activities signs, number signs, and like-love-favorite-prefer signs.  Each center would be responsible for teaching the other center the signs of their center.  Then, I can review some signs and answer students questions.  This will then lead up to the Tally Activity.

Article on Interactive Learning:

I found this great article on interactive learning.  I can make bullet points of important facts from the articles that will remind me on what is important when developing interactive activities. 

Cult of Pedagogy.  (2015, April 15). The jigsaw method  [Video file].  Retrieved from https://youtu.be/euhtXUgBEts.

Yakovleva, N. & Yakovle, E. (2014).  Interactive teaching  methods in contemporary higher education. Pacific Science Review. Volume 16 (2). Pages 75-80.

           https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1229545014000175#cebib0010