Personalize the Course as Much as Possible:

• Come in early and talk with students

• Move about the room when lecturing to bring yourself closer to the students

• Walk about the room when distributing handouts

• Stay after class for questions and talk

• Have students state their name each time they ask or answer a question until you have learned all the names

• Choose a reasonable percentage of papers and tests to write comments on. Rotate the groups so all students receive some feedback

• Have prepared comment note cards (sticky notes) with several different types of comments—e.g. Well thought out, clear and complete or I am not certain what you mean??

• Use one minute paper for questions of comments—read a few before each class

• Hold a brown bag lunch in a conference room once a week for questions or discussions

• Use e-mail to make daily announcements and comments

 Active Learning Strategies:

• Break up lecture by using small 2-3 person groups to write, discuss, summarize etc related to the lecture

• Have students’ rise up and stretch at the mid-point of the lecture

• Lecture with an end of class test every day—research has shown this to raise long term retention of course material

• Have students prepare study question before lecture and then discuss them at the mid point of the lecture for 10 minutes

• Have a Pandora’s Box in the class with discussion topics related to the lecture—pull one or two out at the mid point and have a 10 minute discussion

Teaching and Acting

• Be animated

• Role play

• Dress up

• Use visuals when ever possible 

• Dramatize problems

Collaboration

• Assign students to note taking teams

• Assign students a study partner (s)

• Have students formulate group questions—this is less threatening sometimes

• Give group quizzes

• Use SLA

Faculty wanting further information about any of these topics are encouraged to contact Terry Doyle at doylet@ferris.edu

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