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Active Experimentation: students conduct surveys, perform tests or experiments, site visits, etc.            
Case Study: students work through authentic or fictitious narratives of problems or situations, which require a variety of thinking skills to resolve.            
Class Handouts: reading materials developed by the instructor to be distributed to students.            
Collaborative Learning: students work together in groups to teach each other new material and produce group documents or projects; may include group and individual assessment.            
Colloquy: is a technique in which experts interact with the audience.            
Debates: students are asked to take sides or an issue and argue for them; may include arguing against one's own point of view.            
Guest Lecture: guests make presentations.            
Interrupted Lecture: instructors regularly interrupt lecture to pose problems, encourage questions, ask for feedback; may involve student-to-student interaction.            
Interviews: interrogators ask resource people for information.            
Lecture: instructors make presentations.            
Papers or Written Projects: written assignments on some aspect of the course to be handed in.            
Peer Teaching: students present information or lead discussion in class; may also involve peer critiquing.            
Role-playing, Performance: students act out issues, positions, literature, etc., in order to demonstrate understanding of important concepts; also includes mock interview or clinical practice.            
Simulations: students work through "What if?" scenarios to practice formulating hypotheses and examining outcomes.            
Small Group Discussion: students work together in groups of 3-5 for a variety of purposes.            
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Simone Conceição, http://www.uwm.edu/~simonec 
University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. Department of Administrative Leadership. School of Education
E-mail: simonec@uwm.edu.  Vita (pdf): Conceição Vita

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