Activating methods

Purpose: informal opportunity for all students to speak briefly on a topic

Implementation:

• The teacher asks a question or addresses a topic
• All students express themselves in 1-2 sentences or just keywords
• No discussions during statements (optionally, unclear points can be discussed afterwards)
• A short conclusion is advantageous

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Purpose: Written record of newly learned content, insights, personal status and what still needs to be done

Implementation:

• Presentation and, if necessary, visualization of the topic/question
• The students think about it (Think)
• exchange ideas/solutions in pairs - overlapping points are fixed (pair)
• Further exchange in other pair constellations (Share)

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Purpose: Students create context-related questions that they consider suitable for the exam, discussion of content, teachers gain insight into students' ideas

Implementation:

• Explanation of the characteristics of examination questions
• Students create exam questions (these should be collected using a suitable online tool - or collected in a box at the end of the course)
• Take up in upcoming sessions

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Purpose: cooperative development of a topic

Implementation:

• Division of the seminar group into "home groups" - each home group is given the same topic to work on
• Topic is divided into sub-topics, of which each member of the core group receives one and works on it
• Students with the same subtopics come together in "in-depth groups" and generate and document knowledge together
• All students return to their home groups and can pass on their in-depth knowledge to the other group members

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Purpose: Written record of newly learned content, insights, personal status and what still needs to be done

Implementation:

• Preferably at the end of a course
• Instruct students to answer two questions of their choice on a sheet of paper or digitally
• Provide sample questions, e.g: "What important insights have you gained today?" or "What question has remained unanswered?" or specific topic-related questions
• Set a time limit (approx. one minute)
• Incorporate the results in the following LVs if necessary

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Purpose: Activation of prior knowledge, collection of thoughts and suggestions on a specific topic

Execution:

• Naming a term/ a problem/ a thought-provoking question (should be visualized)
• Ideas can either be noted down individually by students or addressed directly in plenary (rule: what is said is neither commented on, nor corrected or criticized. Free associations and imagination are also allowed)
• Everything should be written down on the blackboard or similar
• Ideas should be taken up in the further course of the course and schematized if necessary

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Purpose: Discussion in small groups (2 to 4 people) of a question/picture/problem given by the teacher in a hushed voice. There should be an active, thoughtful discussion.

Implementation:

• Set a time limit (short periods of time, e.g. 3 minutes)
• Form groups (students sitting close to each other)
• Exchange on given topic
• End the discussion phase clearly
• Individual results should be queried in the further course of the lecture and visualized if necessary

Further information can be found here.