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| + | ====== Interactive Nugget - What About... ====== | ||
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| + | ===== Uses ===== | ||
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| + | * Focus attention on the session at hand. | ||
| + | * Highlight common experiences; anxieties; and expectations. | ||
| + | * Allows you to adjust your teaching according to the concerns of the class. | ||
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| + | ===== Materials required ===== | ||
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| + | Small piece of card for each student (A5 or A6) | ||
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| + | ===== How to use it ===== | ||
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| + | - Distribute a card to each student | ||
| + | - Ask them to write down the main thing they’d like to learn from the session. | ||
| + | - Collect the responses together | ||
| + | - Sort through he cards quickly and summarise them or read them out to the class. | ||
| + | - Answer any questions that you aren’t going to cover in the rest of the sessionn. | ||
| + | - At the end of the session run through the main questions and check that you have answered them to their satisfaction. | ||
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| + | ===== Notes ===== | ||
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| + | If you expect to have too many students to sort through the cards quickly, set them another task at the start of the session (e.g. an exercise to check prior knowledge) to give you a chance to sort through them. | ||
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| + | ===== Variations ===== | ||
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| + | See [[Bag of fears]] for a similar warm up. | ||