Today our group finished the work that begun with scenario 1. The scenario described the anxiety a teacher could have as a beginner of online teaching.
During our fist meeting we had brainstorming of how we should proceed. We came up a lot of very different ideas and decided to think about how to do until next upcoming meeting. During the two upcoming meeting we eventually decided to narrow all ideas down and only pick one, “Engagement”.
During meeting three we decided that we should make a practical list of ways to engage a student during a course. All participants did come up with at least one suggestion. Preferably one that they had tried and felt like it was working.
My contribution to the list was a recommendation to use quiz-tools like Kahoot or Menti at the end of a class or by the end of a “chapter” as “Exit tickets”. According to Paz-Albo et. al (2016) exit tickets both encourage students in their learning as well as gives teacher feedback.
My experience is that many students likes the competition part and when they know that there will be a quiz by the end of the lecture they pay more attention to the presentation. The students can of course also participate anonymously if they prefer. As a teacher you also get valuable feedback of which topics the students did find difficult and not. When having a quiz regularly during the course you get the opportunity to repeat and clarify the hard topics for the students.
References:
Paz-Albo, Jesús & Escobar, Aránzazu. (2016). Exit tickets’ effect on engagement in college classrooms. 5915-5918. 10.21125/edulearn.2016.0256.