Michele Deck

Kyla, this is a great way for the students to learn the information, but also models to them what they will do when they are doing the job and do not know some new policy, or standard. Thanks for sharing your idea.

Having the students tag team with peers who are not their friends creates an environment of collaboration and cooperation, two great happenings in a class.

This is a wonderful idea, especially using the different colors to see what they remembered first, second, etc. Using the white board is environmentally friendly, so it can be reused again and again, without using easel paper. Thanks for sharing!

Jessica, bombies are frightening! Glad to hear you are reacting to your students and changing things as needed.

I like to give these thinking breaks to reengage and refocus students' attention as necessary.

Walter, I think some people would secretly like to be on the real "Jeopardy" and have found success with that also.

I like your suggestion of pointing to the body part. I also like that you touch their shoulder rather than calling out their name. Your talent as a teacher shows in your instincts and insights you have shared with me. Since your learners are diverse and largely female, find out what they like and talk about at breaks and create an activity around that. I'd also suggest you look at the ideas I share in course 311. Hope this helps.

Involving your learners with hands on methods, is a great way to increase student success.

As someone who has been teaching over 30 years, I understand your feeling about these ideas. I have found changing my teaching style to one of being learner focused(what have they learned?) versus teacher focused (let me tell you what I know and you listen) has brought me a higher number of successful students. Not all of my learner focused activities are games, but all require the learners to be engaged and doing something. Thank you for being open minded and possibly using one or two ideas.

YouTube does have quite a variety of video clips that can be used as a teaching tool.