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Teaching Methodologies: Tips for the Classroom

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Special thanks to ATEC for allowing me this opportunity today to share some of my favorite tips and tricks for teaching.Whether you are joining us live or visiting this page after the webcast, please note that this page is your outsourced memory of all the tips and tricks I shared today. Feel free to share this page with others or even contact me if you would like me to develop a custom professional development workshop for your team.

Retrieval Practice

In 350 BCE, Aristotle wrote that “exercise in repeatedly recalling a thing strengthens the memory.”

Retrieval Practice in the Classroom

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Kahoot! is a tool for using technology to administer quizzes, discussions or surveys. It is a game based classroom response system played by the whole class in real time.

Quizizz, like Kahoot, is an interactive learning game/presentation technology. However, the salient features include: Student-paced: Questions appear on each student’s screen, so they can answer questions at their own pace, and review their answers at the end.

JITT

Just-in-Time Teaching (JiTT) is a strategy that promotes the use of class time for more active learning. Originally developed by Gregor Novak and colleagues, JiTT relies on a feedback loop between online learning materials and the classroom (Novak et al., 1999). Teachers use online assessment tools to ask students to perform Warm-ups, Puzzles, and Goodfors  The students answers to the assignments are delivered to the instructor a few hours before class starts. The teacher looks over student responses to see where students are and adapts the lesson accordingly. Teachers can also now use the  responses as scaffolding on which to build learning.

How Do I Get Started?

Prior to class, give your students a slightly provocative and memorable statement/question that is open interpretation. Have your students rephrase the question in their own words, and make them take a stand and justify their position. To do this, they will have to examine prior knowledge, consult the course resources, and perhaps discuss the issue with classmates. The goal is to have them actively engage with the content and activate schema related to the content.

Benefits of JITT

  • JITT questions can be reused on exams, and student responses make for excellent distractors.
  • Student responses will help you to beat the Curse of Knowledge
  • You can grade HW for thoughtful effort.
  • You can include metacognitive questions to get students to think about their thinking in discipline.
  • You can complete the feedback loop and provide personal responses to questions this let’s students know that you value them and their effort.
  • Because much of the beginning scaffolding work is done at home by the learners, this frees up additional class time for Active learning.

Pictorial Superiority Effect – Teaching with Images

Images & the Brain – If you would like to know more about this topic, I recommend Brain Rules by Dr. John Medina

Infographics – Go to Google images and add the word Infographic to any search. 

Canva – This is a free drag and drop graphic editor for building visual content. 

H5P – Make interactive visuals for your students. 

Force Multipliers – Tips and Tricks to Improve your Teaching

Apps – Stand alone software applications that run on a device.

Web 2.0 Apps – Apps that run on the Internet

Extensions – Tools that extend the capability of existing apps.

Extensity, the ultimate tool for lightning fast enabling and disabling all your extensions for Google Chrome. Just enable the extension when you want to use it, and disable when you want to get rid of it for a little while.

Screencastify is a screencasting extension for Google Chrome. It allows you to record your screen activity for creating tutorials, etc, and runs entirely in Chrome, so opens the possibility of screencasting up to Chromebook owners.

Permanent Clipboard allows you to save browser clipboard elements with friendly names at your fingertips. Now you can store things like common comments, feedback and instructions to enhance your work as a teacher.

Pocket is a free service that makes it easy to discover great content that’s personalized to your interests, and save this content so you can return to it later – on any device, at any time. It’s your one-stop destination for reading engaging content, catching up on your favorite blogs and news sources, and watching videos that you discovered but weren’t in the right place to watch.

Mercury Reader is a browser extension that cleans up your reading experience in Chrome. Get rid of the adds and junk and enjoy the read.

One Click Timer is a great tool for using a timer on any Google Tab or G-Suite application. It is fully adjustable and incredibly easy to use and great for a classroom timer.

Harnessing Common Cultural Proficiencies

Using FlipGrid to Enhance Learning and Assessment with Gen Z. Who is the Gen Z? Why should I care? If you would like to learn more, Gen Z @ Work is a good read.

 Let’s give FlipGrid a Try