Learning and Engagement Through the Six Language Domains
- Whether it is a podcast or video, provide students with a Podcast Listening Guide or Video Viewing Guide to promote active listening. Look here for sample Listening and Viewing Guides.
- “Fill in the Blank” Digital Note Taking – guide your students in their note taking skills by providing them with summary lecture notes that require them to fill in the blanks.
- Charting Notes
- Cornell Notes
- Visual Notes – Watch The First Principles of Visual Note-Taking (9:25)
- Article – Read “How Lectures Can Help Build Students’ Listening Skills” by Loleen Berdahl
Questioning:
Developing and using effective questions is an important skill for instructors. Consider which level of Bloom’s Taxonomy you are targeting. Polling systems, such as PollEverywhere.com, can be easily added to your slide deck.
For more guidance about how and why questioning skills are important, read the following information developed at Cornell University: Using Effective Questions
For examples of questions that provoke critical thinking, look HERE.
- Mind Mapping
- Choice Boards: Choice boards allow students to actively engage in their learning by selecting from a menu of learning or assessment activities. It is an excellent tool for individual study or groupwork and provides instant differentiation of instruction. Look here for examples of Choice Boards and digital templates.
Recommended Reading
The Highly Engaged Classroom
by Robert Marzano and Deborah Pickering (2010)
Five Paths of Student Engagement
by Dennis Shirley and Andy Hargreaves (2021)
226 Active Learning Techniques
Iowa State University CETL (2017)
References
Armstrong, P. (n.d.). Bloom’s taxonomy. Center for Teaching. Vanderbilt University. https://cft.vanderbilt.edu/guides-sub-pages/blooms-taxonomy/
Berdahl, L. (2024, January 16). How lectures can help build students’ listening skills. University Affairs. https://universityaffairs.ca/career-advice/the-skills-agenda/how-lectures-can-help-build-students-listening-skills/
Texas A & M University. (n.d.). Cell biology: Make a note of that. Texas A & M School of Veterinary Medicine. https://vetmed.tamu.edu/peer/cell-biology-make-a-note-of-that/