What 5 Play-based Activities Can I Use to Create an Active, Learning-centered Class?

This 20-Minute Mentor will help you become more student-centered in the way you design and teach your classes by presenting five play-based activities that can be incorporated into teaching for almost any subject. Simple and engaging activities such as comparing and contrasting similarities and differences can greatly impact student learning. Play engages students to succeed in tasks they generally find unpleasant or challenging. This 20-Minute Mentor introduces five successful games (plus suggests several more) that actively engage students with content and break up a lecture-only teaching format. Learning, rehearsing, and reviewing in creative and playful ways enhances student scores, attendance, and transforms the class into a student-centered classroom.

This informative program brings to life classroom-tested games that work to build student rapport, inject new life into lecture-heavy teaching, and increase success rates among students.

Learning Goals

After this program, participants will be able to:

• Be aware that play is a vital part of the acquisition of knowledge
• Learn to use imagination, creativity, and surprise as strong influencers in learning
• Build enthusiasm, a warm environment and dialogue, and deliberate practice in their classroom

Topics Covered

• Active learning activities/assignments
• Student engagement
• Why incorporate play?
• Benefits of play in the classroom
• Five ideas for play

Product Code: PM18XA