A Guide to Teaching Activities
Why?
- Knowledge is King.
- Regular retrieval of knowledge from long term memory keeps it there and enables learners to access it when needed.
- It helps to make the knowledge stick.
- It will help to solve your frustration of you teaching, they know it in the lesson but cannot retain the knowledge in future lessons.
- Low stakes testing will not induce anxiety but promote learning.
- Hinge questions, quizzing and non-examples allow you to address misconceptions and check understanding.
How?
- Quizzes
- Multiple choice
- Use online quizzing systems: Plickers, Kahoot etc.
- Ask your class to create questions and test each other
- Creative testing – write down everything they know about a topic as a poem or song.
- Correction task – give pupils an explanation which they have to correct.
- Brain dump – “Write down as many facts as you can about…” one mark for each. Or “How many facts about……………… can you fit on a post-it note?”
Non examples:
Non-examples are the opposite of examples. Where examples provide an instance of similarity, non-examples provide an instance of contrast.
The teacher can provide the examples and non-examples. The students can create the examples and non-examples. Small groups can develop examples and non-examples.
Hinge Questions
