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Looking for ways to design more interactive education?

Whether you’re teaching on campus or online, get inspired by these teaching activities and add your own twist to them. For some more fresh ideas, keep an eye on teachEUR! You will find many new teaching activities here in the coming month. 

Did you try something new (online) or have you developed a great adaptation of an existing teaching activity? Please send these to us to make sure that your teaching activity takes pride of place on teachEUR.

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  • I spy

    Energizer #2

  • Go find something

    Energizer #1

  • Learning Islands

    Go island hopping with your students!

  • (Online) Discussion

    Knowledge makes an impact if you know how to use it. Challenge students to a serious discussion that they’ll not be quick to forget!

  • 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.

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