Carrie Padget

Carrie Padget

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In the “Make Students Active Participants in Learning” section there is an example of offering mini-lectures and than having the students apply the concept allowing them to become active learners. This is a very common technique I use. The problem I have is there are some students that finish the lab before others. I want to give all my students the time they need to “get” the concept –I never rush the slower ones. I tell my students that if they are done early to start working on next weeks homework assignments. Does anyone have other ideas of what to… >>>

I always walk around the room when I lecture. It definitely helps with the inattentive students. My presence redirects the inattentive students behavior causing them to stay focused on me and where I am in the room. I also like to pass learning items around while lecturing to keep my students attention. They get to see and interact with the objects I am teaching them about. Does anyone have different or unique ways to keep their students focused when lecturing?

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