Task 3

What do you mean by experienced based teaching?

Experiential learning is a well-known model in education. Kolb's Experiential Learning Theory (Kolb, 1984) defines experiential learning as "the process whereby knowledge is created through the transformation of experience. Knowledge results from the combination of grasping and transforming experience."

Kolb's Experiential Learning Theory presents a cycle of four elements:

1. Concrete Experience
2. Reflective Observation
3. Abstract Conceptualization
4. Active Experimentation

Andresen, Boud and Choen (2000)[1] provide a list of criteria for experience-based learning. The goal of experience-based learning involves something personally significant or meaningful to the students.

• Students should be personally engaged.
• Reflective thought and opportunities for students to write or discuss their experiences. should be ongoing throughout the process.
• The whole person is involved, meaning not just their intellect but also their senses, their feelings and their personalities.
• Students should be recognized for prior learning they bring into the process.
• Teachers need to establish a sense of trust, respect, openness, and concern for the well-being of the students. 

Interactive based learning (role playing)

We need to encourage students to speak in many different situations, and help them to speak with confidence.

Role play

A short play will generate interest and active atmosphere when students participate in it. That makes them know their roles and responsibilities and try to act as well as possible. It is no doubt that role play motivated students in this case.

Each lesson culminates in an activity or task that gets the learners to actually use the language they have been learning in some kind of simulation or role-play and so that has a number of benefits. The main one is that it dramatizes to the learners and the teachers and all those involved that they can actually do something concrete at the end of each lesson.[2]