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Student Teaching II
My experiment with getting students to teach each other content using MIT’s Visualizing Cultures project is coming to a close. Though some teams’ classroom presentations have been better than others by being more interactive, overall I think the experiment has … Continue reading
Dealing with the Know-it-Alls (aka, the Hermione Monsters)
We all know this student. They are both the savior and bane of our classroom–the student we can count on to participate and break the dreaded silence from the sea of confused or uncertain faces….and the student who we can … Continue reading
Student Teaching
I’ve got one of my favorite subjects coming up next semester — comparative politics of Asia — and I’m going to experiment with MIT’s Visualizing Cultures (VC) curriculum. My goals are to introduce students to the scholarly interpretation of visual source … Continue reading
Posted in Chad Raymond, Comparative Politics, Getting Them to Read, Group Collaboration, Presentations, Projects, Skills, Visual Media
Tagged Asia, China, India, Japan, MIT, Visualizing Cultures
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Learning CAN be a Contact Sport
Simon recently discussed the issue of contact hours with students in the classroom and how that is held up as a benchmark for particular institutions. One critique he pointed out is that this allows little time for the self discovery … Continue reading
Posted in Activities, Amanda Rosen, Games, Group Collaboration, Ice Breakers, Seminars
Tagged activities, collaborative learning, game, group exercise, pedagogy, peer, teamwork
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Active Learning in an Eight-Week Class
I thought it might be useful to document the types and numbers of active learning exercises I use in a typical class. Active learning can become so ingrained that it becomes an essential component of lesson planning, and that has … Continue reading
Lest auld acquaintance…
One of the very best things about contributing to this blog is the way that it has let me maintain contact with a great group of people who – in other times – I would have probably not heard from … Continue reading
That Which We Call a Rose…
I have a friend, a linguistics PhD, who on the first day of class completely memorizes all of her FIFTY students’ names. She has them introduce themselves, and then without consulting her class list she runs through the names forward … Continue reading
Posted in Activities, Amanda Rosen, Exercises, Group Collaboration, Ice Breakers, Uncategorized
Tagged activities, groupwork, motivation, names
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Location is Everything
Sometimes something as simple as changing our environment can make a big difference in our teaching. I’ve experienced this twice over this summer in two completely different ways. First I’ve traded out (too) sunny, (too) hot St. Louis for cool … Continue reading
Posted in Activities, Amanda Rosen, Feedback & Reflection, Group Collaboration, Seminars, Small Classes
Tagged classroom, physical environment, Reflection
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Twitter in Teaching: Student Memes and Critical Humorous Thinking
A guest post from my colleague, Dr Jack Holland (University of Surrey). This academic year, I promoted the use of a Twitter hashtag in my Level 2 Security Studies module (#pol2036). This was done to increase student interaction outside … Continue reading
Posted in Activities, Exercises, Group Collaboration, Ice Breakers, International Relations, Simon Usherwood
Tagged Jack Holland
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