START-STOP-CONTINUE: Empowering Students, Developing Teachers Through AR

Jessie Grace U. Rubrico, PhD

School of Education

UCSI University

29 March 2014

Start-Stop-Continue (SSC) -Garner and Emery (1994): allowing students to give immediate feedback on their classroom activities.

LIST/RECORD instructional policies, practices, or behaviors STUDENTS would like the TEACHER to . . . USING

START

STOP

CONTINUE


feedback

teacher to students

students to students

students to teacher

TEACHING PERFORMANCE

LEARNING PROCESS


How am I doing as your teacher?

FEEDBACK

Improvement: teachers

Empowerment: students

TRUST, RESPECT


FEEDBACK

DIALOG

ENGAGEMENT

TEACHING

EFFECTIVENESS

LEARNING

PROCESS

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The Problem: •Empowering students to be responsible for their own learning process.


• a multi-racial TESL class in a state university;

• diverse levels of English language proficiency

• seeming student passivity


Can a multiple-modality approach to learning

EMPOWER students to actively engage in their own learning process?

Is this approach effective from the perspective of the

students?


problematizing Strategizing

IP

Implementing

IP

evaluation reflection Jessie Grace U. Rubrico, PhD

I N T E R V E N T I O N

• interactive • Intro/summative

lecture

•Video clips •PPT slides

Multimedia presentations

•Classroom •Online/FB

discussion


•Discussion Board •24/7 Messenger • E-portfolio

•Resource Center –Course Materials

•Feedback Avenue


COLLABORATION


SSC explored

expediency of the approach

effectiveness of the teacher

attitude of the learners

empowered students to accept/reject the approach

SSC as learner engagement tool


SSC Questionnaire Set 1

What do you think should the lecturer CONTINUE doing to further facilitate your learning?


SSC Questionnaire Set 2

What do you think should the students CONTINUE doing so your learning is not hampered? Jessie Grace U. Rubrico, PhD

SSC Questionnaire 3 : Instructional Design

1. Which of the modalities presently used in the classroom do you want to continue?

(Check all that apply)

2. Which of the modalities presently used in the classroom do you want to be stopped?

(Check all that apply)

Qs 1-3 cover the major factors in the learning design:

teacher, learners, and the approach. Jessie Grace U. Rubrico, PhD

Instrument: Online Polls Jessie Grace U. Rubrico, PhD

RESULTS

FACILITATOR

START: providing lecture notes before each class & hand outs and short notes for every lesson

STOP: requiring short time for online task submission as internet connection is not good

CONTINUE: • class interactions on FB & e-group • class conversations • group presentations • “sharing with us your experiences…”


RESULTS

STUDENTS

START: taking responsibility for their learning - collaboration

STOP: expecting to be spoon-fed

CONTINUE: “discussing and sharing our knowledge and doubts about the topic that we are learning;”


Modalities Preference

groupwork

facebook

lecture

egroup

multimedia

conversation


Lessons learned: AR Empowers Students

• value of SSC method to learners:

> engagement and empowerment

1) empowers the students; empowerment motivates students to rise up to the challenges of active engagement in their learning process.

2) inculcates in learners a reflective exercise; reflective learners are more engaged, thus more empowered


Empowerment: giving learners a say in their learning process > take responsibility of their learning Sense of responsibility

learning the assigned task well for the benefit of peers critique and assess: approach, group presentations and their own.

Sense of ownership Confidence < bonding that makes groups support each other toward their overall learning Jessie Grace U. Rubrico, PhD

Lessons learned: AR Develops The Teacher

value of SSC to the facilitator

1) simple way of getting learners engaged > consulting with students on the approach to their learning through the SSC is fruitful and rewarding. 2) facilitator’s reflection practice has been honed. > workload may be high but learning and teaching process is enhanced.

3) feedback as building blocks to a good practice we strive to achieve



Start- Stop– Continue (SSC) AR Dialog, Engagement, & Evaluation

Model for Teaching and Learning