As a Common Sense (Type Three) teacher, prior to 4MAT,
this professor’s focus tended to be on skill building and
practice. Using 4MAT enabled her to develop activities that
helped students to refine, extend, and perform their learning.
With some planning, she found that it was possible to engage
students in class activities that provided them with opportunities
to work in small groups to produce and share their own
learning. She found that these activities helped her students
feel more comfortable with the material and resulted in their
being more self-directed and “owning” the content. As the
semester progressed, she often found her students offering
comments such as “learning is fun here” or “what activity
are we going to do today?”