Skills Series • Set 7
Engaging Students
Activity 7.1: Instructor Motivation Quiz
The Instructor Motivation Quiz is a quiz that helps you identify your motivation for teaching by asking you a series of questions in which you consider the type of incentive related to your teaching roles and responsibilities that you respond to most.
Activity 7.2: Engagement Minute Paper
In this exercise, consider a time when you’ve become fully engaged in an activity and then write a short one-minute response about it as you try to recollect the surrounding circumstances. This may help you gain insights into encouraging such engagement in your classrooms.
Activity 7.3: Bookends, Overlays, and Interleaves Map
A Bookends, Overlays, and Interleaves Map is a graphic organizer for planning an interactive class session involving lectures and active learning activities.
Further Reading
Engaged Teaching: A Handbook for College Faculty offers a comprehensive but concise survey of theory, research, and practical strategies necessary for improving teaching and learning in higher education, and is the perfect complement to the Engaged Teaching Skills Series.