Welcome to the final blog post in the series for the Teachers Toolkit for Engagement. Until now, we have covered eight other activities to engage students in active-learning. These will assist teachers with active-teaching. These include: Engagement Summarizing Content recall Using index cards Problem-based learning Role play Student presentations Think-pair-share Read more…
Wow. Monday’s come around so quickly. This is the third and final week of blog posts for the Teachers Toolkit for Engagement series. We have looked through a number of activities teachers can use when teaching. These activities promote active learning and engage students. They include: Engagement Summarizing Content recall Read more…
Today, we look at Role Play as part of the Teachers’ Toolkit for Engagement. By now, you should have a number of tools within your toolkit. To encourage active learning, why not try a few of the following suggestions from previous blog posts? Engagement Summarizing Content recall Using index cards Read more…
Last week, DigiKnow started into a series of blog posts to help build up a Teachers Toolkit for Engagement. We have been posting more frequently than normal for this series and we do hope you are enjoying it thus far. On Monday, we looked at Using Index Cards in teaching, Read more…
If you have been following our blog posts last week, you potentially have added three tools to your Teachers Toolkit for Engagement. These include: passive lectures and engagement summarizing content recall activities Today, we look at activities where index cards can be used during teaching, both in-class and online. Use Read more…
This is the third post in the series of Teacher Toolkit for Engagement. Today we look at using content recall activities as a task for use in-class or online. Our previous posts, we looked at Passive Lectures and Engagement and Summarizing. As previously mentioned, passive lectures have their place and Read more…
This is the second post in the series of Teacher Toolkit for Engagement. Today we look at using summarizing as a task for use in-class or online. Our previous post looked at Passive Lectures and Engagement and as discussed, passive lectures do have their place. Passive lectures should be complemented Read more…
Over the coming weeks, DigiKnow will be looking at how to engage students through active learning. This will help you build up a Teachers Toolkit for Engagement. There will be extra blog posts over the next three weeks: Monday, Wednesday and Friday. Today, we look at passive lectures and why Read more…