I love visual aids. They are a great tool to help add additional understanding for learners and provide an additional time for a learner to see/interact with the information to increase their chances of remembering it later on.

Lots of great ideas from group games that connect with different type of learners. To individual games that can be done on a small scale. Works well if different personalities of teaches too. You don’t have to be a loud boisterous teacher to be engaging.

I play a game called “named my diagnosis” and it teaches students to critically think, remember signs and symptoms, and how to communicate effectively with patients. By interviewing me as someone who has a medical condition. Much like the game guess who, except with a disease. My classes love it!! 

I love this topic! It stops the “Bueller” effect, of a teacher speaking and a student completely not absorbing the information. As educators we need to find ways to connect to all students.

HOW TO CONITNUE TO ENGAGE IN THE CRITICAL THINKING THAT IS NECESSARY FOR DIDACTIC CLASSES

These are good methods to improve learning outcomes.

Crossword puzzles are a good way to improve engagement.

I have started using mentimeter in my class. It has improved engagement.

Adding active learning to the lecture improves the engagement.

This is the concept that most students don't understand as they typically store information in short-term memory to study for "the test" but I think our curriculum in PTA is great for encouraging long-term memory storage of concepts as we repeat several concepts in every term in some way, requiring students to reflect on what they have learned about it and review it again.