Looking for inspiration to design more interactive education?

Whether you teach on campus or online, TeachEUR offers a variety of teaching activities to improve the quality of your education. Do you want to promote active learning and collaboration among students in an accessible way? Are you looking for a fun exercise to break the ice, activate prior knowledge, or achieve another learning objective? Get inspired by our possibilities and add your own twist to them.

Soon, we will also add theoretical deepdives into various themes, supported with practical tips and tools to implement them immediately in educational practice.

We regularly post new teaching activities, but we are also eager to hear from you. Have you been experimenting, tried something new to stimulate interaction, or have you applied a variation of an existing teaching activity? Please share your activity with us!

Do you need professional support tailoring a teaching activity to your subject? Would you like to brainstorm about new ideas? Or would you like to dive deeper into a particular theme? Contact us or send an email to cli@eur.nl.

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  • The muddiest point

    Help your students pinpoint which lecture content is not yet clear to them. 
    Drawing of students trying to identify what part of the subject matter they not yet understand
  • Think - Pair - Share

    Students discuss a question or assignment in pairs and explain this in a plenary session. Let's think - pair - share!
    Drawing of students working in pairs to discuss subject matter
  • No screens allowed

    Laptops stay closed and you teach students how to take structured, handwritten notes.
    Drawing of a closed laptop and a pair of hands holding a pen
  • Listen, stop, compare

    A simple activity that ensures that your students are in active listening mode during your lecture. 
    An English translation of this activity will be added within 2 weeks
  • Video roleplay

    Role play is often (a bit too) exciting for students. By working in pairs, having them record and evaluate their own role play you lower the treshold for this…
    Illustration of someone in a video call
  • Finish the sentence

    A quick and simple activity to engage students and gather input at the same time. 
    Illustration of a teaching session
  • Jigsaw

    Make every student the expert you need to complete the jigsaw puzzle
    Drawing of students each with a piece of a puzzle in their minds, discussing how to put it together
  • Synthesize it

    Have students learn by exchanging the subject matter.
  • Fishbowl

    Have an in-depth debate with a part of the group and activate the audience by asking them for analysis and reflection afterwards.
    Drawing of 3 students discussing a subject while other students observe them in the background
  • The Dilemma Game

    Considering, setting priorities and making a decision; how to navigate complex dilemma's?
    Drawing of different ways to express an opinion or value
  • Visual space

    A friendly icebreaker to gain rapid insight into the opinions, characteristics or the mood of the group.
    Drawing of students taking literally position in a room that is divided in true and false
  • Student Generated Test Questions

    Students themselves develop test or examination questions and matching model answers.
    Drawing of a student organizing sticky notes in her head

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