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Please reflect on your course and identify the various media that you used for each of the instructional strategies by marking an “x” in the appropriate box.

 

DEFINITION OF TERMS:

Active Experimentation: Students conduct surveys, perform tests or experiments, site visits, or other “hands-on” activities.

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: A technique in which experts interact with the audience.

Debates: Students are asked to take sides on an issue and argue for them; may include arguing against one's own point of view.

Field Experience:  Students are asked to visit sites and observe or participate.

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/mini lecture: Instructors make presentations.  Mini-lectures are short presentations.

Papers or Written Projects: Written assignments on some aspect of the course.

Peer Teaching: Students present information or lead discussion in class; may also involve peer critiquing.

Question and Answer:  Students or instructors ask questions; answers may be individual/group, written/verbal.

Quizzes:  Instructors pose questions to students that require individual/group, written/verbal responses for evaluation purposes.

Role-playing, Performance: Students act out issues, positions, or literature, 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 three to five for a variety of purposes.