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Giving students 'wait time' has been shown to significantly improve the quality of their responses. | Giving students 'wait time' has been shown to significantly improve the quality of their responses. | ||
= Brainstorming = | |||
This is a useful interactive teaching technique that allows all participants to make a contribution without fear of judgement from others. | |||
Here are the steps: | |||
# Students listen to a question posed by the teacher - this should be open-ended with no specific right answer in order to generate a range of ideas | |||
# Students offer their ideas when the teacher asks them one by one - it is not necessary for students to raise their hands as everyone is encouraged to make a contribution | |||
# All ideas are recorded by the teacher where everyone can see them | |||
After the brainstorm session the ideas can be further processed in line with the plan for the rest of the lesson. | |||
Tips for using the technique successfully: | |||
* establish a friendly, supportive, non-judgemental atmosphere for brainstorming | |||
* remind students to listen to what other students have said to make sure that they don't repeat any replies | |||
* try to keep the activity pacy, adapting the length of the brainstorm session to match the flow of ideas | |||
* praise students for active listening and for respecting the contributions made by others | |||
* the technique works well at the beginning of a new topic as a way of finding out students' prior knowledge | |||
