LESS TALK, MORE DOING?

Nowadays, interactive teaching method works better for students, rather than the method of lecturing by highly regarded professors. "It's really what's going on in the students' minds rather than who is instructing them [that makes a difference in learning]," said Wieman. The interactive method is a great strategy for the person who began lecturing and felt as though they were loosing the students attention, to come alive and start building a connection with every student. This method helps boost the students confidence to ask questions that would better their understanding to the topic. Interactive method in a classroom helps to create a healthy, lively, and respectful environment for learning. The interactive teaching method involves almost no lecturing. Instead, the students observe demonstrations. They take part in short, small-group discussions. The students will begin to become engaged in the learning process and passionate about the subject matter. It becomes fun and meaningful at the same time to the student mind, which will start to grab their full attention and help their brain to think and have a better understanding to the matter. "It's not the professor. It's not even the technology. It's the approach," Armstrong said. "It's really what's going on in the students' minds rather than who is instructing them [that makes a difference in learning]," said Wieman. This is also a good opportunity to make the students learn to work together. This process would continue to better the students mind understanding to difficult topics and forms positive and respectful relationships with the students, that will allow them to learn more effectively from the teacher and also allow the teacher to learn from them. Teachers often feel that some of the students in their classrooms are "somewhere else." These are the students who sit in the back of the room and do not participate in class activities. Some of these students may be preoccupied with personal issues, while others may feel so disconnected from the subject matter that they find it difficult to concentrate. The Moving Beyond Icebreakers approach makes clear to all students that their participation and their authentic voices are valued. It helps to break down the barriers that may be holding students back from participation, and it helps the professor to gain insight into why students may be disengaged. When these barriers begin to break down, students are freer to engage with the class's academic content. The interactive method provides the teachers with real-time feedback on which concepts their students had understood and which ones they hadn't quite grasped yet. According to Wieman, the interactive technique would be effective for all grade levels. Because even though is the brain is the best tool ever made, it still needs certain techniques in order to save up information or techniques to have better understanding to certain things. Dr. Wieman believes the interactive method would even work with other sciences and subjects. The study also found that students in the interactive class had better attendance. Students were also more engaged in the class. Lloyd Armstrong, a professor of physics and education, agreed with Wieman. In a nutshell, majority of the students in the interactive class, taught by grad students, learned much more than the students who heard the lectures by a well-

regarded professor. The tests results after the experimental week, an obvious gap emerged between the two classes' scores. On a 12-question quiz, students in the interactive class answered an average of 74 percent of the questions correctly. However students taught by the lecture technique got only 41 percent. In addition, the best scores in the traditional class were below the average score in the interactive class. This shows us how much a student mind would not have any problems taking in information and learning, but it is all about the approach and the techniques that comes with it, to encourage the brain to open up and to be used positively by the teachers and students.