Active learning: A perspective of Educational institution administration in the 21st century

Abstract

Educational institutions are important agencies that have roles, duties, and responsibilities in organizing basic education for the nation’s youth in order to develop the quality of human resources to have knowledge, skills, and experience that are ready to face changes in society, economy, politics, governance, culture, and various technologies to be a force for national development. Teachers play an important role in developing the nation’s youth, and school administrators play the most important role in school administration, especially academic administration, Especially academic management which is the key to developing student quality to be in line with the current social conditions in the 21st century. One method that administrators should focus on is developing teachers to be able to organize learning activities in new forms, such as active learning, which emphasizes students to study and find knowledge by themselves, develop lifelong learning, and learn through practice and interact together to create knowledge and summarize concepts from learning. Active learning also has various techniques that teachers can use to design learning activities that are appropriate for the nature of the subject matter and students who are different, so that students are happy, learn to their full potential, and develop themselves to be skilled citizens who can live and work in today’s society happily, with quality, and create a good quality of life for themselves, their families, society, and the country. The purpose of this article is to demonstrate the importance of academic management that administrators should drive in educational institutions to develop learners. This article presents the introduction of active learning management, which is a learning management that is suitable for the 21st century by designing activities according to the Active Learning Management Techniques such as Think-Pair-Share, Collaborative Learning Groups, Student-Led Review Sessions, Games, Analysis or Reactions to Videos, Student Debates, Student Generated Exam Questions, Mini-Research Proposals or Projects, Analyze Case Studies and Active Learning Process such as Introduction Stage, Experience Creation Stage, Knowledge Sharing Stage, Knowledge Review Stage, Application Stage.