ENGAGING YOUR STUDENTS
Last updated by: Helen Dobson on 2 September 2009 - 1:14pm
The final session of the Academy Symposium was a hands introduction to the "Interactive Classroom Presenter" a package which enables student and teacher to exchange handwritten information via a "tablet". Participants provided their ideas for Engaging their Students.
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WAYS TO ENGAGE YOUR STUDENTSFood - chocolate fish, candy as "thank you's", lures or for fun
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Playing Games
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Using Analogies/examples
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Role playing
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Using Controversy
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Drama - there are many websites that provide information on "using drama to teach" in specific subjects. The following links are generic
Drama for Learning - Dorothy Heathcote's Mantle of the Expert Approach to Education
~ Dorothy Heathcote & Gavin Bolton - 043508643X |
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Students write own exams
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Changing the physical environment
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Using Practical activities
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Shock
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Use students to take classes or have a second teacher
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Use Case studies
Teaching and the Case Method: Text, Cases, and Readings
By Louis B. Barnes, Carl Roland Christensen, Abby J. Hansen
Contributor Carl Roland Christensen, Abby J. Hansen
Edition: 3, revised
Published by Harvard Business Press, 1994
ISBN 0875844030, 9780875844039
333 pages
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Provide different media/props/pre-written script http://www.emeraldinsight.com/Insight/ViewContentServlet;jsessionid=15C19F7FEBA4E898C56CB5637D16D2A1?Filename=Published/EmeraldFullTextArticle/Articles/0040450704.html
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Treat the students with dignity/know their names, listen etc
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Let students answer own exams
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Be organised/on time etc
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Create curiosity/mystery
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Use Humour
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Interaction with teacher and each other – groups – listen
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Show emotion/vulnerability
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Use Music
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Students think of a time that relates to the topic and get them to write talk or think
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Authentic learning experiences + assessment
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Give them something to say about you – dress sense, personality etc
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End the course the same way you started
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Tell them what they have to look forward to
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Be enthusiastic about your teaching and subject
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Give flexible assignments
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Demonstrate answers physically
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Freestyle interviews
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Have a "to do now" exercise
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Know want need KNW charts
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Match headlines to text
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Put conference knowledge into classes
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Remove the bricks/barriers - Solutions on bricks and remove them
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What 5 things did we learn yesterday? Review previous classes
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10 questions
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Learning disabilities
Working Towards Independence: A Practical Guide to Teaching People with Learning Disabilities
By Janet H. Carr, Suzanne Collins
Edition: illustrated
Published by Jessica Kingsley Publishers, 1992
ISBN 1853021407, 9781853021404
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Using news items
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Make sessions short and sweet and keep breaking them up - alleviate boredom
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Use novel characters – animals
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Use novel activities
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Talk show lectures
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Present some classes on web – vary class format
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Other useful general resources
Teacher Thinking, Beliefs and Knowledge in Higher Education
By Nira Hativa, Peter Goodyear
Published by Springer, 2002
ISBN 1402000952, 9781402000959
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