This week I’ve learned useful techniques for teaching large classes and making interactive PowerPoint by reading articles. Some are whole new ones, and some are already known ones but I didn’t know exactly. For reviewing and keeping in mind, I would like to summarize them as follows:
Engaging Students 1 - Teaching large classes
1. Interactive Lectures: classes in which the instructor breaks the lecture at least once per class to make students participate in an activity working directly with materials
2. Just in Time Teaching (JiTT): focused on improving students learning through the use of brief web-based questions (JiTT exercises) delivered before a class meeting
3. Cooperative Learning: involves structuring classes around small groups that work together in such a way that each group member’s success is dependent on the group’s success. It doesn’t mean simply putting students into groups. There are five key elements of cooperative learning as follows.
- Positive interdependence; sink or swim together.
- Individual accountability; learn together, perform alone.
- Face-to-Face (promotive) interaction; members become personally committed to each other as well as to their mutual goals.
- Interpersonal and Small Group Social Skills; learn academic subject matter (taskwork) and also interpersonal and small group skills (teamwork).
- Group Processing; analyze how well their learning groups are functioning and how well social skills are being employed.
4. Minute Paper: A concise note (taking one minute!), written by students (individually or in groups), that focuses on a short question presented by the instructor to the class, usually at the end of the session
Sources:
Interactive Lectures
- http://serc.carleton.edu/introgeo/interactive/index.html
Just in Time Teaching (JiTT)
- http://serc.carleton.edu/introgeo/justintime/index.html
Cooperative Learning
- http://serc.carleton.edu/introgeo/cooperative/index.html
Minute Paper
- http://flaguide.org/cat/minutepapers/minutepapers1.php
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