Jace HargisPicture Prompt Think Break Choral Response Instructor Storytelling Empty Outlines Classroom Opinion Polls Total Physical Response Hand Held Response Cards Student Polling Self-Assessment of Ways of Learning Quote Minus One Everyday Ethical Dilemmas Polar Opposites

1. Active Learning PPAdapted from: Thomas A. Angelo/K. Patricia Cross, Classroom Assessment Techniques. 2nd Ed. Jossey-Bass: SF, 1993. Silberman, Mel. Active Learning: 101 Strategies
to Teach Any Subject. Allyn and Bacon: Boston, 1996. VanGundy, Arthur. 101 Activities for Teaching Creativity and Problem Solving. Pfeiffer: SF, 2005.
Jace Hargis, PhD

2. Instructor Action: Lecture
a) Picture Prompt
b) Think Break
c) Choral Response
d) Instructor Storytelling
e) Empty Outlines
f) Classroom Opinion Polls
g) Total Physical Response
h) Hand Held Response Cards
i) Student Polling
j) Self-Assessment of Ways of
Learning
k) Quote Minus One
l) Everyday Ethical Dilemmas
m) Polar Opposites
a) Pop Culture
b) Make Them Guess
c) Make It Personal
d) Read Aloud
e) Punctuated Lectures
f) Word of the Day
g) Recall, Summarize,
Question, Connect &
Comment
h) Focused Listing
i) Background Know Probe
j) Goal Ranking and Matching
k) Interest/Knowledge/Skills
l) Documented Problem
Solutions

3. Instructor Action: Lecture (Small Class Size)
1. Pass the Chalk
2. Quaker Meeting
3. Town Hall Meeting
4. Half Class Lecture
5. Tournament

4. Student Action: Individual
1. One-Minute Papers
2. Muddiest Point
3. Misconception Check
4. Drawing for Understanding
5. What’s the Principle
6. Haiku
7. True or False?
8. “Real-World”
9. Concept Mapping
10. Advice Letter
11. Tabloid Titles
12. Bumper Stickers
13. One-Sentence Summary
14. Directed Paraphrasing
15. Word Journal
16. Truth Statements
17. Objective Check
18. Opposites
19. Student Storytelling
1. Application to Major
2. Pro and Con Grid
3. Harvesting
4. Chain Notes
5. Focused Autobiographical Sketches
6. Course-Self-Confidence Surveys
7. Profiles of Admirable Individuals
8. Memory Matrix
9. Categorizing Grid
10. Defining Features Matrix
11. What/How/Why Outlines
12. Approximate Analogies
13. Problem Recognition Tasks
14. Switch it up!
15. Reading Rating Sheets
16. Assignment Assessments
17. Exam Evaluations
18. Group-Work Evaluations
19. Teacher-Designed Feedback
20. Writing Fables

5. Student Action: Pairs
1. Think-Pair-Share
2. Pair-Share-Repeat
3. Wisdom of Another
4. Forced Debate
5. Optimist/Pessimist
6. Peer Review Writing Task
7. Invented Dialogues
8. My Christmas Gift
9. Psychoanalysis

6. Student Action: Groups
1. Jigsaw
2. Pick the Winner
3. Lecture Reaction
4. Movie Application
5. Student Pictures
6. Definitions & Apps
7. TV Commercial
8. Blender
9. Human Tableau
10. Build From Restricted
Components
1. Ranking Alternatives
2. Simulation
3. Group Instructional
Feedback Technique
4. Classroom Assess
Quality Circles
5. Audio/Video Protocols
6. Imaginary Show & Tell
7. Six Degrees of “RNA
Transcription Errors”

7. Creating Groups
1. Quick Division
2. Question and Answer Cards
3. Telescoping Images
4. Speed Sharing
5. Trio Rotation
6. Go to Your Post
7. Four Corners

8. Games
1. Crossword Puzzle
2. Jeopardy
3. Pictionary
4. Super-Password
5. Guess the Password
6. Twenty Questions
7. Hollywood Squares
8. Scrabble

9. Interaction Through Homework
1. Find the Company
2. Diagnostic Learning Logs
3. Process Analysis
4. Productive Study-Time Logs
5. Double-Entry Journals
6. Paper or Project Prospectus
7. Annotated Portfolios

10. Student Questions
1. Student Questions (Index Cards)
2. Student Questions (Group-Decided)
3. Questions as Homework
4. Student-Generated Test Questions
5. Minute Paper Shuffle

11. Role Play
1. Role-Playing
2. Role Reversal
3. Jury Trial
4. Press Conference
5. Press Conference
6. Analytic Memo

12. Student Presentations
1. Fishbowl
2. Impromptu Speeches
3. Anonymous Peer Feedback
4. PowerPoint Presentations

13. Brainstorming
1. Brainstorming on the Board
2. Brainstorming Tree
3. Brainstorming in a Circle
4. Chalk Talk

14. Thank You
Jace Hargis, PhD