An Alternative To Lecture-Based Education

Paper Summary:

The paper discusses the potential benefits of incorporating brain-based, active learning, inquiry-based, hands-on participation and multiple intelligence-based methods of academic instruction in the classroom. The paper proposes a study that will use ordinary television and VHS educational programming as a means of improving learning among primary and secondary students. The paper relates the research questions, an abridged methodology and a timeline.

Outline:
Statement of the Problem and Purpose
Preliminary Literature Review
Research Questions
Abridged Methodology
Timeline

From the Paper:

"American education has evolved tremendously between the original one-room schoolhouse of the 19th and early 20th century to it modern incarnation. Instead of combined classrooms for primary and secondary school students, the contemporary American public education system provides progressive, graduated, age-appropriate instruction through the final year of secondary education. The first generation of American students used a single textbook, often sharing it with another classmate. Even throughout most of the last century, students in every grade still used the exact same textbooks as preceding class and the texts themselves updated only after a decade or more of use; in many instances, it was not uncommon that students used the same textbooks as had their parents."

Sample of Sources Used:

• Active Learning: Getting students to work and think in the classroom (1993). Speaking of Teaching, 5(1). Retrieved May 1, 2008, from http://ctl.stanford. edu/Newsletter
• Adams, D. & Hamm, M. (1994). New designs for teaching and learning: Promoting active learning in tomorrow's schools. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass.
• Bickman, M. (2003). Minding American education: Reclaiming the tradition of active learning. New York City: Teachers College Press.
• Bimonte, R. (2005, November/December). If your class were optional, would anyone attend. Momentum, 36(4), 6.
• Byerly, S. (2001). Linking classroom teaching to the real world through experiential instruction. Phi Delta Kappan, 82(9), 697.

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