Mixing It Up-Adding Variety to your Classroom Instruction
Monday, November 18 3:15-4:30
Rowe 319
Presenter: Wayne Trembly, CETL
Participants will come away with specific strategies for adding variety to classroom instruction.
This talk will cover such topics as:
- Breaking up the lecture: when, how (videos, stories, role play, Q & A, iClickers, Poll Everywhere, Survey Monkey, small group discussion, brief activities…) why
- Q & A as review
- Restatement of key points by students as a check for understanding
- Small group discussion of key points followed by whole group discussion
- Brief activities to reinforce learning objectives
- Problem solving in Math, the sciences, Engineering…
- Long term projects
- Assigning each section of a chapter to a small group of students who will then present the material to the whole group
Register at - https://web9.uits.uconn.edu/fins/secure_inst/workshops/workshop_view.php?ser=1094
For more information, contact: Stacey Valliere at stacey.valliere@uconn.edu