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  • Opportunities for students to read and share in class:
     
    The following website is a great resource and list an enormous amount ideas when teachers are engaging students in the classroom.
     
    http://www.usciences.edu/teaching/tips/spal.shtml 
     
    Below are examples of what the website offers:
     
     

    Student Participation/Active Learning

    Tips marked with an * indicates that the tip is consistent with learnng-centered teaching

    Student Participation/Active Learning

    • *Getting students to participate in class
    • *Promoting class participation, discussion among the entire class
    • *Student classroom participation
    • *Getting more student discussion
    • *Active learning within a large classroom
    • *Students working together on group projects, assignments
    • *Promoting class discussions
    • *Getting students to participate, answer your questions
    • *Promoting discussion in your class
    • *Making student presentations more of a learning experience for the listeners
    • *Making class discussions more of a group event
    • *Helping students learn more from lectures
    • *Making group presentations better and more meaningful learning experience
    • *Helping students master the vocabulary and definitions in a discipline quickly
    • Getting students to participate more in class
    • Evaluating students on class participation
    • Using brief questions to students in class
    • Calling on students in class
    • *Recognizing the importance of conflict and conflict resolution in student learning groups
    • Students helping peers to learn better
    • Getting your students to work better in groups or teams
    • Introducing and reinforcing active learning
    • Helping all students to share in a pair and share exercise
    • Getting students to show their work or thought processes
    • A way to get dominant students to allow others to talk
    • Getting more students to answer your questions in class
    • *Doing a cooperative, active learning debate in a 50 minute period
    • *Getting students to come to class having read the assignment
    • Helping students get the key points or the gist of material
    • Helping all students to share in a pair and share exercise
    • Helping people work in groups who feel they always do all the work in groups
    • Getting and giving feedback on meaningful class participation
    • Letting the classroom environment foster student participation
    • Suggestions for peer and faculty assessment of participation in class or small group discussions
    • Giving students credit for class work
    • Are your students ready for class?
    • Class participation Rubric.doc
    • Asking for information from the students very early in the semester to help you meet their needs
    • Getting all members of a student group to be effective team members
    • Using an ice breaker at the beginning of the semester
    • Getting students to engage in their reading
    • Gathering formative, peer assessments for small group work
    • How much time to allow students when you ask a question using clickers or another system where all students are expected to answer
    • Getting students to buy in and do collaborative assignments
    • Giving a consistent message about the importance of collaboration
    • How to respond to the student question - Did I miss anything in class today?
    • Making student groups more effective
    • Getting more students to participate in class or online
    • Using misconceptions clickers questions as a way to review material
    • Getting students prepared for class discussions
    • Establishing a positive climate for quality and frank discussions and for students to answer questions when called upon
    • Helping students to realize that they learn outside of traditional venues such as lectures
    • Getting students to come prepared for class and participate in class
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