Ch. 1
1. How much does the average teacher talk in most classrooms?
2. How is the brain involved in an active teaching lesson?
Ch. 2
3. What is the key to learning?
4. What do John D. Rockefeller and David Johnson say helps kids succeed?
5. What are the advantages of active learning?
Ch. 3
6. Which should be emphasized – process or content and why?
7. What are the four steps in the process of active learning?
8. Summarize the research on retention of Edgar Dale and his “Cone
of Learning”
What percent of information is retained?
9. What type of learners are most teachers ands how does that affect
teaching?
Ch. 4
10. What underlying factors of health problems does active learning
seem to address?
11. Which excuse for not using active learning so you think is most
common and why?
Ch. 5
12. How does one create a safe psychological environment?
13. What’s the teacher’s role in active learning?
Ch. 6
14. What are the teacher’s two basic roles during discussion?
15. What should the teacher do when there is silence?
16. Describe positive peer pressure
17. What are the ground rules for good discussions?
18. How important is discussion after the activity?
19. What’s the first rule of any discussion?
20. What three types of questions should be used to process the activity?
Ch. 7
Briefly describe each of the discussion formats