Transcript Tue_1_Evans_Classroom Activities to enhance learning

Classroom Activities to
Enhance Learning
In-Class Activities for Courses in Humanities
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Structured group presentations
Dialogical writing assignments
Debate
Peer review
In-Class Activities for Technical Courses
• Problem Solving Applications
• Large interactive group, collaborative groups at
boards or at desks
• Interactive Lecturing (instructor talks with periodic
pauses for structured activities)
• Effective Questioning – Promote Deeper
thinking
• Case studies of effective projects or failures
• Think, Pair, Share to promote discussion
In-Class Activities for Technical Courses
• Learn by Teaching, small groups or at boards
• Student generated exam questions
• Question of the Day Exercise
• Demonstrations/ in class labs
• Games – Jeopardy
• Muddiest Point, Minute Paper, Reflection Paper
• Student-to-student talk encouraged
• Film/ video of the day
Obstacles:
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Cannot cover as much material
Takes too much preparation
Student resistance to being exposed
I’m less in control of the class
The Pause – and Wait Time
Consider frequent pauses – One procedure recommends the
instructor pausing for approximately two minutes on three
occasions during a fifty-minute lecture (i.e., every 12-15 minutes).
During the pauses, students work in pairs to discuss and rework
their notes without instructor-student interaction.
Wait time‖-- is a term used to describe the interval of silence
after a teacher‘s question and the start of a student‘s reply.