effectivestrategiesandplansforteachinglargeclasse.docVIP

Effective Strategies and Plans for Teaching Large Classes Teaching philosophy – make a commitment to create an active and collaborative learning community Principles: Engage students to be active, interdependent and collaborative learners Implement assessment for learning – conduct formative assessment, classroom assessment and provide students with timely and high quality feedback from instructors and peers etc. Aim for promoting higher order thinking skills/achieving higher level of learning outcomes Conduct continuous course evaluation Adopt outcomes based teaching and learning in the constructive alignment approach Encourage self-directed and life long learning Comprehensive approaches for effective large class teaching: ESTABLISH an active learning community MANAGE behaviors, space time DESIGN effective learning activities IMPLEMENT assessment for learning MOBILISE the teaching team UTILISE support resources technologies Preparation before the term starts: Teaching team meet with the teaching team and reach consensus on teaching philosophies, principles, syllabus, ideas, strategies, concerns, schedule, roles and responsibilities etc. Learning Outcomes define the learning outcomes that aligned/mapped with the programme outcomes and the university graduate attributes Teaching and Learning Activities incorporate active learning strategies to design teaching and learning activities that engage students to participate in learning activities, achieve course outcomes and develop interests in the subjects Associational brainstorming (is especially good when new ideas or concepts to introduce as it can check out the students’ prior knowledge and experience.) Think-pair share (make them think and talk!) Mini-lectures (pause and implement some short writes or CATs to help students to review and organize their learning) Debates Group work/activities/assignment (collaboration) Jigsaw classroom (collaboration) Role-playing Assessment design formative assessment