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Using Question and Answer Periods
Active learning can be bolstered in the large classroom setting through question and answer sessions.
It is important to create a friendly, collaborative, non-threatening class atmosphere.
Tips on Question and Answer sessions:
- Use carefully planned questions to guide and assess students' understanding of the subject matter
- Wait for the students to speak and respond in a welcoming way
- Collect answers and write them on the blackboard; correct wrong answers together as a class
- Ask knowledge-based, open-ended, and opinion-based questions
- Carefully plan how you want students to respond to questions (show of hands, votes, surveys)
- Provide opportunities for students to ask you questions by giving them time to reflect on what they have learned
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