Before starting on my latest entry I wanted to attach the
link that I had forgotten to attach from my previous entry.
10 Good Habits for Students: How Top Students Learn retrieved
on 18 May 2016 from https://www.examtime.com/blog/good-habits-for-students/
Prior to starting my work as an instructor at Camosun
College, I was given the opportunity to take the Instructional Skills Workshop
offered for one week on site at the Lansdown campus. It was illuminating. That was in December 2014 and was the beginning
of my journey along the Provincial Instructor Diploma Program path. When I do something, I want to do it well,
and I knew that this program would help me to be a great teacher. I was just looking at Andrea’s blog and my
first thought was that she had created a really amazing blog. Lots of useful information presented in a
very appealing way. I hope that with a
bit more practice and experience in blogging my own blog entries will improve
and inspire others! On April 29, 2016 she presented an activity called
Think-Pair-Share. I had previously been
introduced to this activity at Camosun College in the Instructional Skills
Workshop and had forgotten about it.
Thanks so much for the reminder Andrea as this is a very effective way
to get students brainstorming and working together to problem solve. I especially loved the pointer at the end of
the blog about reminding students that they may come across some of the
questions addressed in the Think-Pair-Share activity on a test. What a great way to create even more
motivation for students to implicate themselves in the activity and take note
of the best responses.
Seeing this activity
reminded me of another useful and quite straightforward activity that I have up
my sleeve that was also learned in the Instructional Skills Workshop at Camosun
College. There are no instructions per
se, but rather, it is a simple and effective way to have the students sum up
the class lecture. Depending on class
size of course, give yourself approximately ten minutes at the end of the class
to do this activity. Tell your students
that as a means to wrap up the days lecture you would like each person to share
one new thing that they learned no repeats allowed. It actually is kind of fun for a variety of
reasons. Often students will want to go
first because it gets more complicated as people share to come up with an
original answer, it often generates new discussion or if someone shares
something that isn’t accurate it gives other students the opportunity to share
the correct answer. It also gives you as
an instructor instant feedback about what information really stood out and
potentially what subject matter may have to be addressed again in an upcoming
class.
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