Teaching Methods
In this most common teaching method, the 'sage on the stage' presents course content with limited student engagement
What is lecture?
This middle level of learning describes the goals that most coursework is focused on
What are mediating outcomes?
In this classic questioning format, the 'sage' asks questions or raises weaknesses in a student's point-of-view (no togas required).
What is the Socratic method?
What is 'SUCCESs'?
This interactive game is most beloved by many students for its quick paced, multiple-choice, gameshow format.
What is Kahoot! ?
This teaching method involves directing small sets of students to complete a learning activity
What is group work?
This six level pyramid describes the types of learning that students can master through increasing engagement.
At the first level of Bloom's taxonomy, you find this level - where students are aware of the content.
What is 'knowledge'?
What is a schema?
This virtual forum allows students to record themselves in short videos to create responses to instructor prompts
What is FlipGrid?
This teaching method asks students to take on a character and act out a script or improvised scene
What is role play?
At the conclusion of a course, students are expected to reach these pinnacle targets of learning
What are ultimate outcomes?
Agorophobics probably hate these freeform questions where there is no wrong answer.
What are 'open' questions?
Connecting course content to real world situations or future careers allows students to 'pave' the way to learning with this component of SUCCESs.
What is concrete?
This learning management system 'upgrade' asks faculty to re-learn and adapt a tremendous amount of content that worked just fine in Blackboard Original.
What is Blackboard Ultra?
In these settings, students apply course knowledge to investigate and solve a real-world situation
What is a case study?
What is course mapping?
Brookfield and Preskill put motion into discussion with these seven types of questions, like cause-and-effect or hypotheticals.
What are 'momentum' questions?
This phrase describes the time limits of a student's active awareness for receiving and thinking about new information.
What is an attention span?
It's not a three foot long brain, but an online pre-built poll that can be designed for student feedback, reflection, or ranking.
What is Mentimeter?
When the instructor adjusts class activities and lectures to meet students' needs or improve weaknesses in understanding
What is just-in-time teaching?
To repeat a cycle of protype, testing, and refinement - as recommended in the Marshmallow Tower game
What is the iterative process?
McKeachie described these 'good questions' as the type that ask students to compare or contrast theories.
What are 'comparative' questions?
What is 'vehrstehen?'
This Greenville Technical College faculty member is the go-to person for fixing whatever weird problem you are having with your Blackboard course.
Who is Lee McMinn?