Hogwarts
How many Harry Potter movies are there?
8 movies
Hermione is hosting one of her SI sessions when one of her students, Draco, becomes increasingly friendly. Even to the point of flirting with her and asking for social media usernames. How do you think Hermione should react? How do you think other students in the session feel? What should her next steps be?
- Be professional
- Do not give your private information away
- Tell your student you are working and you are their SI leader only (privately)
Who was the winner of the Three Wizard's Cup?
Harry Potter and Cedric Digory (Dead tho):'<
A student gets upset and frustrated when Ron redirects questions instead of “giving them the answers.” They appear to be annoyed and frustrated and start commenting to other students, saying they don’t know what Ron is doing. How should Ron handle the situation?
When redirecting questions
- Make sure you redirect them to the whole group and not a particular student.
- After some attempts to redirect questions and not receiving any responses, start giving your students hints or resources that help them with your questions.
Spell to make something levitate
wingardium leviosa
Luna is assigned to SI for an ECON course. It seems that a group of students in the class lack the prerequisite background for the course. What should Luna do to help those students?
- Talk to the students afterward and direct them to resources that can help them with the skills they lack ( Khan Academy, Tutoring Center,...)
- During the Opener, incorporate activities that can strengthen or enhance the skills they need
How many points is the Golden Snitch worth?
150
A student, Vincent Crabbe, comes to Ginny’s SI session, however, he refuses to participate in the activity. Vincent Crabbe has done this in Ginny’s sessions before. He just sits disengaged in the back of the class and refuses to work with other students. What should Ginny do to engage Vincent in her activities?
- Instead of working in groups, pair up the students
- Attempt to redirect the question to Vincent or just ask him to share his POV
- Check on him to see if everything is okay
Name the full names of the founders of Hogwarts
Godric Gryffindor, Rowena Ravenclaw, Helga Hufflepuff and Salazar Slytherin
Cedric Diggory usually gives his students worksheets during SI, but today Cedric decides to try a new activity/game. He’d put a lot of work into playing this new session, however, all of the students refused to do it. They all start ganging up on him, and demand he give them a worksheet, some other students refuse to work with others and just want to have the worksheets to work by themselves. What should Cedric do?
- Make sure to spend enough time explaining the new activity, and run an example of the game
- Break down the benefit of participating in the new activity and incorporate all the questions in the worksheets into the activity.
- Have a backup plan if you want to try something new