Experiential Learning, which was first put forward by David Kolb, a professor of organizational behavior and the founder and chairman of Experience Based Learning Systems, Ins. Kolb illustrated Experiential Learning as a learning method, which includes specifically experiencing, observing and reflecting, concluding and abstracting, and at last applying the experience into learners’ real life or new-round learning
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On April 19th, SHSID middle school and primary section teachers went to Shanghai Chen Shan Botanical Garden and held the “Experiential Learning” teaching research activity to experience this learning method, and potentially apply this education method into our future teaching. Teachers were asked to complete several learning tasks on the task cards. Biology teachers played the role of educators and introduced other teachers about the features of tropical rainforest and tropical desert plants. Although all of the t eachers come from and teach different subjects, they quickly became familiar with the tropical plants. Compared to traditional classrooms, when the teachers were in the botanical garden, everything became vivid and easy to remember.
After the experiential activity, teachers were divided into several groups for deeper learning and discussion. The whole process also brought reflection and new thoughts about their own teaching methods. This was really a process that learners were happy to be involved in and can eventually help the learners to apply to their own experience. SHSID has been implementing and will keep practicing this teaching philosophy. All of the teachers will take their new thoughts and new ideas into their future teaching!
身临其境,亲身体验——初小段成功举办“体验式学习”教研活动
体验式教学,是美国社会心理学家、教育理论家大卫库伯总结杜威、库尔特、皮亚杰等教育、心理、认知大师有关经验学习模式的基础之上提出体验式学习模式。库伯把体验式学习阐释为一个体验循环的过程:由具体体验,到观察反思,归纳抽象概念,再到主动应用。这是一种以学习者为中心的学习方式,需要通过实践与反思相结合,由经验的升华从而创造知识的过程。
4月19日,为了具体体验“体验式学习”,并把这种教育方法运用到今后的教学中去,上海中学国际部初小段老师们展开了一项辰山植物园“体验式学习”教研活动。老师们需要根据任务卡的提示完成学习活动,生物组老师则承担了体验式学习中教育者的角色,帮助老师们学习热带雨林及热带沙漠植物的生物学特点。尽管老师们来自不同的教研组,教授不同的学科,但在生物老师耐心、详尽的讲解下,在辰山植物园身临其境的环境之中,老师们很快了解并熟悉了热带植物的各种不同特点。和在传统教室学习不同,植物也不再是书本上、课件上的图片,而是鲜活的,老师的讲解也更加生动有趣、富有感染力。
在教学体验活动之后,老师们分组交流,填写学习反馈,并反思了这次活动给自己平时教育、教学工作所带来的启示。体验式学习真正让学习者乐意参与、能够反思,并能分析归纳、应用自己的体验。上海中学国际部一直践行并将继续践行这一高效、多维度的教学方法,老师们也将把自己此次教研活动的感受和启发应用到新一轮的教学中去!
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