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This page was last updated 7th August 2020

Tools and Tactics for Engaging Students

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Length of Session: 2 hours and half hour preparatory work

Being able to engage all your students in their classroom activities isn’t always easy. This workshop will help you to explore some of the difficulties and share suggestions and ways to engage every learner.

[This session is intended to build on ‘What is ABL? Recipes for Active Blended Learning’ and prepare for ‘How to ABL? Trialling Active Blended Learning’ but you can participate in any of these workshops and in any order.]

What staff need(s) will the workshop meet?

  • I sometimes find that I have different levels of engagement within the classroom - I need ideas to address this.  
  • The students on my modules are so varied. How can I meet all the different needs and keep them all engaged?
  • I want to know why active blended learning (ABL) is important and how it helps with engagement.

Through this you will...

There is of course no ‘magic bullet’ to student engagement, but ABL offers some solutions. In this workshop you will explore both the issues you face and practical strategies that you can employ. Working with other staff, swapping ideas, and developing ideas, you will go away with some initial plans for activities and techniques you could use to incorporate ABL into your teaching.

Who would benefit from this workshop

All staff involved in teaching students.

Please book yourself a place via U4BW

From the U4BW course catalogue, type ‘ilt’ in to the course box to see all C@N-DO workshops.

If you experience any problems booking a place, email marie.graham@northampton.ac.uk.

Specific skills

A2

This session will focus on managing the issues that arise with implementing activities IN class so as to engage a diverse range of learners.

Core Knowledge

K2

This workshop will be practical in nature and focus on learning and teaching methods for engaging a range of learners in a class.

K3

The workshop will draw on experiences within the group and explore how to meet different student learning needs.

Professional Values

V1

This workshop will focus on the strategies to engage and meet the needs of individual students within diverse classes.

Supporting HEA fellowship

D1 - Associate Fellow of the HEA Staff with at least 1 year teaching/support experience. Typically these are staff who do some teaching/student support but not as the main element of their role, such as
  • Career researchers with some teaching responsibilities
  • Learning support, demonstrators or technicians with some teaching responsibilities
  • Staff experienced in professional areas but with a limited teaching role
D2 - Fellow of the HEA Staff for whom teaching or learning support is a significant element of their role such as staff with experience as
  • Academic or Support staff holding substantive teaching & learning responsibilities
  • Experienced professionals with substantive teaching & learning responsibilities including for example within workplace settings

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