Week 2

This post is regarding a lesson plan that I felt my students really enjoyed. It was actually quite simple to set up. I divided the students into 4 groups 5 students per group. I used the questions from the next exam to access their prior knowledge of the topic. The group had one minute discuss the question and write A,B,C, or D on these mini-white boards that I had passed out.
I noticed the first few questions the students were talking about non-topic issues. I then addressed the class and said I am hearing a lot of non-topic related chatter so I lowered the time to 30 seconds with my timer. This really seemed to help and got the students in a competition to answer the question correctly. This was the first time I actually enjoyed being in front of the class.