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Halloween Special: The Mystery of the Absent Students
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In a spooky Halloween adventure, hosts Josh Luckens and Megan Hamilton Giebert are thrust into an educational encounter with the supernatural world. We feature an oracular radio drama in which a lost professor contends with ghosts, zombies, and a truth-telling student, and teaching tips are conveyed from the great beyond via Arioch Wentworth's gramophone.
Beware: this episode features course design and delivery strategies from a Dickensian figure who may or may not be a ghost. Their ancient wisdom is so potent that it might just help you transform your teaching practice and cast a lasting spell of engagement on your students…
Additional resources:
Maurice’s strategies to keep students in class using intrinsic motivation:
Make class time fun and engaging
Make learning social
Make real world connections
Emphasize the positive
Demonstrate that you care
Maurice’s strategies to keep students in class using extrinsic motivation:
Do meaningful things in class that uniquely happen during class time
Require attendance, take attendance, and/or grade attendance…while offering some flexibility, since we’re all human (although Maurice might actually be a ghost…)
Links:
Chronicle of Higher Education article: Why Students Are Skipping Class So Often, and How to Bring Them Back
Check out the Teaching & Learning Collaborative website for additional teaching strategies and tips.
Try the virtual theremin for all your spooky sound needs!
(October, 2022)
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