“Have them make use of the reading, have them try to make sense of the reading, have them talk to their peers about what they think the most important aspect of the reading is, I will show them that actually if I do the reading, not only will I get whatever benefits I get from reading, but I'll get the...”
Campus Talks by Times Higher Education · Campus Talks: Teaching strategies to get students reading and speaking up in class
Play from 27:49
27:49
Audio streams from the publisher’s own feed. Verbatim does not host or copy it.
What was described
designs class activities that require students to use the assigned reading, so reading directly supports class discussion and peer talk
Said nearby on the same subject
“So if I have students to read 70 pages of a novel, and then I lecture in class in a way that they didn't really have to read that to understand the lecture, next time they won't do the reading. But if the activities that I plan for students in class, have them make use of the reading...”
“We've been doing... going to all 95 counties in Tennessee, talking to the farmers, talking to the teachers, talking to the nurses, talking to working class people”