Julie is a college instructor. She spends a lot of time developing and improving her curriculum, lecture plans, and classroom activities.
She has embraced the flipped classroom concept. Between classes her students are assigned lecture videos to watch and readings to cover before their next classroom session. Julie knows that engaging students is crucial for their learning, so she uses MeetingSift during her classroom sessions to interact with students in order to get them more excited about the topics covered.
MeetingSift provides a way for Julie to gather feedback during her classroom sessions, and have a meaningful dialogue with her students, even when the class is large.
Running classroom session can be challenging. The students’ level of relevant knowledge can vary, and classes are often large, making it difficult to engage everyone.
One of the biggest challenges Julie faces is engaging all her students. Many students are too timid to ask questions, worried it will make them appear stupid in front of their peers.
When her students get bored and distracted, Julie finds it difficult to determine whether they have checked out because the materiel is too easy, or because it is too difficult. In addition, she needs to find out the areas with which the students really need help, so she can allocate extra time to cover those topics.
MeetingSift helps Julie turn her classroom sessions into a dialogue with her students, no matter how large the class. By including interactive activities, they can all engage in giving feedback and contributing suggestions. Every single student can participate equally via their own device, whether they are in the front row or at a remote location.
To set the stage, and to test her students’ knowledge level on the topic at hand, Julie starts her sessions with a series of interactive multiple choice questions. She also asks students to identify the topics they need more help understanding.
Once Julie has developed a classroom session, MeetingSift enables her to save her interactive agenda as a template that she can easily reuse next time she teaches the same subject.
Are your students too timid to speak up? Do you only hear from the same girl in the front row?
Engage all students in interactive activities via their own devices. MeetingSift is easy to use, no training is needed, and there is nothing to download or install.
Poll your students on the topic area you are addressing, so you know what level of detail you need to include in your explanations.
Ask your students to help prioritize which topic areas you should spend more time covering, so you can make better use of everyone’s time.
Start your classroom session with a series of interactive multiple choice questions, both to set the stage and to test your students’ knowledge.
End your session with a quick round of similar multiple choice questions, proving what they have learned by attending your session.
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