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✔✔What is the difference between ABL and Experiential Education? - ✔✔ABL has a
period of reflection where it has time to make connections about the activities.
Experiential education allows students to simultaneously learn while doing the activity.
ABL incorporates brief and debriefs to ELC Experiential education is used to teach and
implement social and emotional skills through non-competitive activities
✔✔What does the Experiential learning cycle include? - ✔✔Experiencing (the activity),
reflecting (debrief), generalizing (so what?), applying (take home message).
✔✔What is the Sunday Afternoon Drive? - ✔✔The Sunday Afternoon drive model
incorporates the metaphor of driving a car as a means to explain how the debriefing
process occurs in ABL. Includes six key features: choice of vehicle, start the car, follow
the road, GPS recalculating, nearing the final destination, the world, and final
destination. (Article 5).
✔✔What does the Sunday Afternoon Drive consist of? - ✔✔-Choice of vehicle (the size
of the group participating)
Ex: pair off or as a group
-Start the car (get the discussion started)
Ex: crumble papers or emotional cards
-Follow the road (facilitator selects keywords mentioned to further discussion)
Ex: asking students to elaborate their answer
-GPS recalculation (assisting the group get back on track if discussion begins to
wonder)
Ex: asking back up questions that refer back to main discussion
-Nearing final destination (generalizing key topics)
Ex: facilitator highlights take home message
-Final destination (facilitator helps students arrive to a take home message)
Ex: facilitator asks participants how they can incorporate take home message in daily
life
✔✔What should the facilitator do during the debrief? - ✔✔The facilitator should act as a
"co-pilot". Meaning they should allow the students to take over the discussion and other
intervening when necessary.
✔✔What strategies can be used that are based on the Sunday Afternoon drive model? -
✔✔Feelings cards and quick whip are two strategies that can be used. The feeling
cards allow students to connect their emotions with the activities played. Quick whip
allows students to describe their experiences in only one word then they can elaborate
later.
, ✔✔What role does LPE (lived-positive emotionality) play in community with social
groups? - ✔✔Positive emotions lead to individual and group growth. LPE works well
with ABL because it helps create an inviting environment. With an inviting environment it
allows students to be more willing to participate in PE.
✔✔How is LPE defined and implemented based upon the LPE article? - ✔✔Students
work better and are engaged for a longer period of time when they feel supported by
their teachers and have positive relationships. LPE in the classroom enhances students
to learn, attend class, and participate.
✔✔What is lived-positive emotionality (LPE)? What role does this phenomenon play in
creating community within social groups? - ✔✔Positive emotions are central to teaching
Positive emotions provide multiple benefits for self and students
Think and act positive and it reflects on the people around you (peers, students, other
teachers)
Positive emotions lead to growth for individual or group. It helps in ABL because it helps
create experiences that can help all students and creates inviting environments for
everybody. Also, because everybody is positive in the classroom, everybody is
comfortable with themselves and the whole classroom so they participate in PE.
✔✔Based upon articles 4 & 5 what are some overall findings? - ✔✔They stated that
technical understanding is being prepared having questions ready and getting through
every question. Practical understanding is having a set of questions to ask the class, but
also coming up with questions on the spot as the discussion furthers. In the articles they
found that starting off with technical understanding then transferring into practical
learning works best.
✔✔What can teachers see if they implement ABL? - ✔✔Teachers can see improvement
in their students' positive identity, social skills, physical skills, and values.
✔✔What is challenge by choice? - ✔✔A strategy that allows students to choose their
level of participation within an activity. This strategy allows for a caring and emotionally
safe environment for students.
✔✔What is the stretch zone? - ✔✔Where students are able to step out of their comfort
zones, promoting learning and personal growth.
✔✔What are the three components of the stretch zone? - ✔✔Comfort, strength, and
panic.
✔✔What is Challenge by Choice and the Stretch Zone? How is this important to a
conducive learning environment? - ✔✔Stretch Zone: is the zone where students are
able to step out of their comfort zones, promoting learning and personal growth.
Comfort, stretch and panic are the 3 components to the stretch zone.