PKAL Pedagogic Collection

Each of the modules listed below describe a pedagogy of engagement: a method of teaching that focuses on student-faculty contact, co-operation among students, and the active engagement of students in the learning process.

• Calibrated Peer Review is a web-based writing and peer review tool that improves students' critical thinking and writing skills.
• Collaborative/Cooperative Learning involves students working in groups to accomplish learning goals.
• Investigative Case-Based Learning involves students in addressing real world problems.
• Just-in-Time Teaching gets students to read assigned material outside of class, respond to short questions online, then participate in discussion and collaborative exercises in the following class period.
• Peer-Led Team Learning (described on this site from the City College of New York) engages teams of six to eight students in learning sciences, mathematics and other undergraduate disciplines guided by a peer leader. Peer leaders are drawn from the pool of students who have done well in the course previously.
• Personal Response Systems ("Clickers") can be used to have every student in class respond to questions during a lecture. This is one of several ways to make lectures interactive in any size classroom.
• Process-Oriented Guided Inquiry Learning (POGIL) (described on POGIL.org) is a research based learning environment where students are actively engaged in mastering course content and in developing essential skills by working in self-managed teams on guided inquiry activities.
• Problem-Based Learning (PBL) simulates work-place projects that require mastery of a range of content knowledge and the development and application of process skills in an integrative and interesting format. Teams of students work together in the classroom to solve these problems.
• Student-Centered Activities for Large Enrollment Undergraduate Programs (SCALE-UP) establish a highly collaborative, hands-on, computer-rich, interactive learning environment for large, introductory college courses. Folding together lecture and lab with multiple instructors provides an effective, economical alternative to traditional lecture-oriented instruction.
• Studio Teaching maximizes students working together in groups and being responsible for their own learning.