Teaching events are places for intensive encounters and discussions. If an open and creative discourse is to be facilitated and promoted, it requires a good knowledge of the other participants: the teacher and the students (see also the teaching concept "Call by name"). An easy and ...
This method, known as a "sociogram" or "line-up", is an agile way of getting to know each other. Following certain questions, students position themselves on imaginary or sketched axes in the room. One axis can be used for a one-dimensional categorisation (line-up). Examples ...
Small incentive systems give student tasks a playful touch. Competition with each other also promotes creativity and the quality of the results. It is therefore advisable to organise an awards ceremony at the end of a project. Various categories can be defined in which prizes are awarded. ...
Although students have usually known each other for a long time and attend courses in familiar groups, there are often no answers to questions spontaneously posed to the plenum by the lecturer. The fear of embarrassment is too great, the hesitation to express one's own opinion ...
In order to show students the topicality of the topics being dealt with and at the same time to find an activating introduction to a course, it is a good idea to refer to subject-related topics from the press (e.g. news from the drug war in Mexico). On the basis of the ...
A method such as the following can help to actively engage with topics, even comparatively large subject areas and amounts of material. Also known as the "Market of Possibilities" (similar to the teaching concept "The learning exhibition as a topic repository"), group work is staged to develop ...
