Training and Professional Development

  • 11/18 Adding Variety to your Classroom Instruction

     
     

    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