These are very interesting activities. Having taught Theater, I like how Jenny managed to combine it with history. It’s great that she got good feedback from the students. I know how hard it is to get older students to participate well in theater activities, but when it works, it usually works very well.
When students do not speak up easily, some kind of group-based competitive activity may help, it depends on the subject. Also create an environment in which you ask them about their opinions and take those seriously. For instance in theater, I used to ask students to constructively comment each other’s performances. This worked very well.
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Wei Ji Ma (作者博客) 说:
在 %I:%M%p 添加 2008年7月21号These are very interesting activities. Having taught Theater, I like how Jenny managed to combine it with history. It’s great that she got good feedback from the students. I know how hard it is to get older students to participate well in theater activities, but when it works, it usually works very well.
When students do not speak up easily, some kind of group-based competitive activity may help, it depends on the subject. Also create an environment in which you ask them about their opinions and take those seriously. For instance in theater, I used to ask students to constructively comment each other’s performances. This worked very well.