"Something I Want to Try"
Here is a collated list of your "A-Ha!"s from the session, and what you said you are excited to try out with your students at Tyndale (in some cases, several people mentioned the same thing -- placemat, for example, was quite popular!):
- Importance of small groups
- How to use groups more effectively - roundtable
- Adults learn differently
- Safety
- Providing safe place -- "hockey pass";
I learned not to create anxiety
- Let students "rehearse" before sharing
- Numbered heads
- Accountability; Save the last word
- Group ID
- New strategies
- Exit Tickets
- How students can be assigned a letter and you can call on the letters to get more class participation This would work @ the doctoral level and I'd like to be more intentional in planning the sessions... some fascinating new approaches
- Engage students; Discuss one thing learned
- Start of the semester gorup activity to see what students already know about the subject
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- Think - Pair - Share
- Place Mat
- Ways to get everyone to participate and engage
- Review of jigsaw
- Hands-on group learning techniques such as "mind maps"
- Sharing key statement in an article
- Educational Exercises
- Make it meaningful; content presented in lecture form
is not always the best way to teach
- Group work; connections between three statements
Have you tried out any of these strategies, tools
and organizers with your students?
Tell us more, so we can share
your success stories and reflections!
and organizers with your students?
Tell us more, so we can share
your success stories and reflections!
