What's in the envelopes or boxes?

Ice Cream tubs were used by Stuart King.  Each tub contained a small prop and an image.  Students then completed the following chart (individually) - one line per ice cream tub! 

Create 3D sculpture

Many thanks for our visiting friends at Colleg Gwent who today played with Play-Doh in our Staff Development session and shared ideas, creating some of the photos above!

IF YOU WOULD LIKE TO EMAIL MATT ANY PHOTOS OF YOUR SCULPTURES - PLEASE DO, AND I WILL ATTACH TO THIS BLOG.

Finchm@citybathcoll.ac.uk

PowerPoint with a countdown timer

Here is a link to a 3 minute film showing how to embed video timer into Powerpoint: 3 minute film

PLEASE ENSURE WHEN YOU OPEN YOUR POWERPOINTS IN FUTURE YOU

CLICK THE ENABLE BUTTON

Lines of communication in your teacher

For more information about active learning activities and lesson stuctures please pop into H002a (Teacher Learning Centre) and pick up your copy of the CoBC Pathway, information about Snowballing, or just have a chat with someone!

220 students were asked if their lessons started on time.  The majority of students said "yes".

However, a large number of learners said "The lecturer may turn up on time, but sometimes the lesson does not start for 15 - 20 minutes - it's just lots of explanation and talk about 'stuff'.  We feel like the lesson starts when we actually get asked to DO something".

So advice from the students: "Make us do something, anything, in the first 5 minutes - then we consider the lesson to have started!  We then switch on and are ready to learn, listen and engage."

Leon Smith now has active students in seconds . . . how? Watch this link

Students lead the promotion of E&D

Before setting this up, spend 15 minutes or so discussing and brainstrorming the importance of Equality and Diveristy and how it relates to the work place or the subject the students are studying.  The lectuer needs to get the student "buy in" to make this work.  You may want to encourage the "E&D monitor" to bring in an item from the news (news paper, website) to discuss for 5 minutes at the start of every class, and follow this theme through the lesson.

You may want to open the E & D monitor up to the whole class.  A number of classroom observations have noted that staff are not picking up on opportunities to promote E & D - set this up, and hopefully, the class will lead the way!

UPDATE:
Here is the poster that Stuart King used in his session to kick start students discussing - checking first that students knew why all these pictures were important:

 

Don't always stop at the correct answer

HOTS

Poster made by Kat Benson in sport - based on the Teaching Tip of the week before.  Thanks Kat!

Tidy where you teach

Ground Rules, Tidy and Stretch

Students and Photocopiers

Tracking progress

B & W on Powerpoint