Kolb’s Experiential Learning Model

Warm Up:1. Capture your five “Important Facts”

from the three pre-class readings.

Are you ready to be a positive agent of change?

Warm Up/Do Now

Objectives

1. Identify the five stages of Kolb’s Experiential Learning Model with 100% accuracy.

2. Develop an example of how the school-based agricultural education model could be utilized to address each of Kolb’s components of the Experiential Learning Model to instructor satisfaction.

3. Formulate a process to achieve all five stages of Kolb’s Experiential Learning Model for secondary school agriculture students through supervised agricultural experience to instructor satisfaction.

Reading?

Hmm.

• Create “TOP 5” Facts from your ‘Pod’ Group.

• Capture on flip chart to post around room

(give a title!!)

Challenge 1!

Create meaning, organization and relationship with CIRCLES provided!

Objective 1

• I hear, and I forget• I see, and I remember• I do, and I understand

Why use experiential learning?

Experiential learning is the opportunity for students to physicallyAnd mentally explore a subject by simulation or manipulation orBy performance of a real world task.

Why use experiential learning?

Information Transfer• Telling• Read• Watch

Understand Concept• Generalize• Apply• Combine

Vs.

Pedagogy based on research, most notably in CTE is David Kolb (1984).

Uses the idea of recurring learning cycles.

Basis for all experiential learning is EXPERIENCE matters!

• Greater impact on learning and retention.

• Affects emotions, feelings, and attitudes.

• “All genuine learning comes through experience” John Dewey

Why is experiential learning important?

Task 2: Revise/Revisit your Experiential learning

model match

• Revisit your work with this new information!

• Match definitions

Objective 2: Develop an example of how the school-based agricultural education model could be utilized to address each of Kolb’s components of the Experiential Learning Model to instructor

satisfaction.

Complete Questions 2 and 3 on your Lecture Worksheet.

Objective 3: Formulate a process to achieve all five stages of Kolb’s Experiential Learning Model for secondary school agriculture students through supervised agricultural

experience to instructor satisfaction.

InstructionsWork in Teams of 3.

Create an example (using question 4 of Lecture Worksheet) regarding using experiential learning with a:• Paid Labor (Placement) SAE (Working for Someone

Else)• Business/Ownership (Entrepreneurship) SAE (Project)• Research SAE (Individual Research Project)

Review Objectives

1. Identify the five stages of Kolb’s Experiential Learning Model with 100% accuracy.

2. Develop an example of how the school-based agricultural education model could be utilized to address each of Kolb’s components of the Experiential Learning Model to instructor satisfaction.

3. Formulate a process to achieve all five stages of Kolb’s Experiential Learning Model for secondary school agriculture students through supervised agricultural experience to instructor satisfaction.

Review

PARTY TIME!

Need:• 1 host• 5 party “guests”• Outstanding audience