Exercises
Do you feel Teach Me What I Taught You is an effective way to review learning objectives?
Peer learning is hugely powerful. I deal with interational students, nearly all with English as their second language, and usually not from the same country. English is the common language among the students, though.
We have to get through the lectures, but have found that the real learning comes during application. Building in simulations of the processes and then encouraging students to coach each other, as the facilitators stay engaged, has proven very successful. For example, a French-speaking Belgian, a French Canadian, a Francophone African, and a French student will support each other in French in order that they all achieve the learning objectives of the lecture and simulation.
Donald,
it is interesting how often we have this confusion of messages & the paraphrasing activity is a great way to test for that understanding.
Ryan Meers, Ph.D.
I'm thinking this is the same or close to having a student tell you what they heard and not what you said. Amazing how there is confusion there between sender and receiver.
darcell,
I definitely do. While you can't do a full-blown lesson, this is a great way to assess whether the students caught what you were teaching & to see to what level.
Ryan Meers, Ph.D.
