Teaching Techniques

Techniques I tried to engage my students cognitively while teaching:​

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• Tutorial: Before allowing my students to launch into their projects, I tried to provide a tutorial for the apps or websites that we will be using, showing my students where each tool is. 

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• Questioning: When a student claims that he/she is done with his/her projects, I would use questions to prompt more thinking. For example, when a student is content with his creation of a prosthetic hand, I asked him to think about energy usage and how the prosthetic hand would be able to move. 

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• Planning: During teaching, I tried to also teach the students to plan for their projects. For example, when informing the students that they need to come up with multiple YouTube videos for the YouTube Content class, I planned for a section during which students try to write down as many ideas as possible that they can later use in making their videos. 

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• Revise: While allowing my students to monitor their progress themselves, I try to show them that revision and editing are equally important as creation. For around once every day, I asked the students for permission to share their work with the whole class, and if they are willing to share, the whole class would try to provide "actionable" feedback for the sharer, similar to that of an author's chair [citation]. Then, I would show the students what it means for actionable feedback by starting with a compliment and something the student could work on, and the students would take turn in providing feedback for the sharer.