really good class

What would be the best way to incorporate group work into a lecture?

I would like to build on what I've learned here. I will be teaching intellectually gifted students who come to us with a high level of motivation to learn.  My desire is to inspire them and not let them down.  This may have been the best Max Knowledge course I have taken, genuinely enjoyed it and learned a great deal!

I see that the recommended number of people to a group is 6 to 8.  What if you have a really small group of students for the class?  In one of my classes, there are only 6 students. Does it make sense to group them to a smaller groups?

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Best Practices and Tips for Questioning in the Classroom --> Questioning in the Classroom

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Good istructional material that I can apply to the claasroom settin.

Apart from nervous movement can gestering become a distraction?

Why can't review if properly done be an evaluation or a pretest?

I worry that the result of testing can lead to teaching to the test. How would you avoid that? One way is to vary the types of questions. There again, it is possible to try and find ways to figure out the question rather than focusing on the answer, and testing strategies take over.

How to be more efffective in teaching and motivate students engagements

I find that tone is important in asking questions. If a student feels intimidated by a perceived tone of the instructor, you may not get the participation you want. I guess, this is where rapport is important.

Is there a difference between scaffolding and learning chains?

My institution has added on-line instruction with the inclusion of discussion boards. I am struggling as to how to be fair in grade the responses. There are requirements as to answer the questions asked and respond to two other student's posts. Some students give more information in their answers than others. If the question is answered should there be a reward for adding additional information beyond answering the question?   

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Active Learning Methods --> Implementing Active Learning

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Active Learning Methods --> Planning for Active Learning

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Staring the course and will comment upon completion

Great reinforcement on the day to day running of the class and teaching styles.

After I take attendance and go over the course syllabus, I always play a game with the students. It does not matter how old my students are. I always tell them I do my best to make the class both informative and enjoyable. It never fails to reinforce the fact that I mean what I say.

I am wondering if your primary way of teaching material to your students is related to the priamry way you tend to learn as a student. Wondering if anyone has really thought about this so they could understand there are muliple ways to deliver course material.