Let's Engage our Students!
- MJ
- Jan 28
- 1 min read
TCEA posts offer teachers excellent suggestions and advice! A current article, "Avoiding 'Death by Lecture:' 25 Strategies to Keep Students Engaged" discusses the limitations of traditional lectures and offers teachers and instructors practical alternatives to keep students or participants engaged. Here are some key points summarized from the article:
Why Traditional Lectures Fall Short: Lectures often lack interaction, exclude diverse learners, provide minimal feedback opportunities, and don't foster essential skills like collaboration and critical thinking.
Benefits of Engaging Methods: Engaging teaching methods transform the classroom into an active learning environment, improve retention, address diverse learning styles, and help students build essential skills for success beyond the classroom.
25 Strategies to Avoid 'Death by Lecture': The article lists various strategies, including inquiry-based learning, case studies, think-pair-share, quick writes, hands-on experiments, concept maps, collaborative problem-solving, role-playing, fishbowl discussions, flipped classrooms, jigsaw groups, debates, workshops, gallery walks, gamification, peer teaching, storytelling, station rotations, pause and reflect, scavenger hunts, Socratic seminars, project-based learning, four corners, interactive notebooks, and simulations.
The article emphasizes blending lectures with interactive methods to create a dynamic and engaging classroom environment where students thrive1
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