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Engaging Interactive Class Strategies

The document outlines various interactive classroom activities that promote student engagement, such as debates, brainstorming, and the World Cafe method. Instructors are encouraged to plan these activities in advance and facilitate discussions, allowing students to take an active role in their learning. The importance of varying group sizes and compositions is emphasized to enhance collaboration and idea sharing among students.

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Engaging Interactive Class Strategies

The document outlines various interactive classroom activities that promote student engagement, such as debates, brainstorming, and the World Cafe method. Instructors are encouraged to plan these activities in advance and facilitate discussions, allowing students to take an active role in their learning. The importance of varying group sizes and compositions is emphasized to enhance collaboration and idea sharing among students.

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INTERACTIVE CLASS SESSION It is helpful to vary the size and the composition of groups

during different interactive activities. Students can work:

Before class, the instructor works offstage to plan the activities and prepare for interactions. Once in class, the instructor acts
as a stage director so that students are in the spotlight. Students are called on stage to become learning actors and not just
members of a learning audience.
in pairs in teams in a full-class format

Instructors should never forget that the students should


be the most active persons in the classroom.
DEBATE AND DISCUSSION THINK-PAIR-SHARE
Students defend and compare their opinions BRAINSTORMING Students do an exercise or think
on topics in small groups; a moderator can Students generate and compare ideas about a about a question individually, discuss
facilitate the discussion and a spokesperson topic; they can record and categorize their their results or ideas with a partner,
can report to the full class responses in a word cloud or on post-it notes and then with the rest of the class

WORLD CAFE JIGSAW TOURNAMENT AND COMPETITION


Students engage in discussions in small groups to Students form groups of experts to Students compete against one another
explore a specific topic, then rotate to another discuss content, then join new teams in small groups by answering questions,
topic to build on ideas from the other groups; they in which they share expertise with doing an exercise, or completing a task,
can post their contributions on a collaborative other students who have seen a and then vote on whose performance
board or write them on a whiteboard different part of the content was the best

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Learning and Teaching Innovation Center
Franck Herling

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