Great! You gave the strategy from post #1 in this series a go, and you are getting significantly more classroom participation and are inching toward more worthwhile discussions! But…the responses you are getting are not assuring you that the students are comprehending the material. What to do next? Problem #2 – No One is Getting […]
How to Engage Your Whole Class in Worthwhile Discussion
Facilitating Worthwhile Class Discussions AKA How Do I Get My Students to Talk? Your goal: worthwhile discussion. Your results: less than stellar, to say the least. You know what I’m talking about. You try to get a good discussion going in class but it’s always the same students with their hands up…or maybe no one […]
Teach Students Deep Processing Skills
Teaching deep processing skills revolutionizes the way students study and the degree to which they ultimately learn new concepts and skills. I know because that is what happened in my classroom with my students once I discovered the power of facilitating the right study strategies and totally abandoning the wrong ones! Most teachers spend […]