Creating An Interactive Classroom Environment

As students usually respond best in a visually stimulating and interactive environment, it is no surprise that most modern classrooms are making every effort to create such an environment for students. With the aid of technology, it is becoming simple to create an interactive classroom environment to increase student’s involvement.

Following are some of the established ways to create a classroom environment that is not only interactive, but also challenging and stimulating for your students:
  • Include Videos In Your Lectures: As any student would testify, videos are a great teaching tool. The videos are so ingrained in our daily lives; they make learning an effortless experience for most students. In order to use this medium efficiently in your classroom, choose videos that are short and preferably humorous, to ensure that students remain engaged all through.
  • Opt For Video Assignments: An excellent way to incorporate audiovisual component of videos as a teaching tool, is to encourage students to create and share their own videos. The act of putting together a video assignment is sure to be creatively challenging as well as enlightening. You can take this a step further by encouraging students to view each other’s videos, thus facilitating an exchange of ideas and sharing of knowledge. If time permits, allow the students to present their videos to make the activity more engaging and interactive.
  • Encourage Collaboration Through Team Work: A time-tested strategy to boost efficiency and make learning fun is to make students work in teams. This approach helps to prepare students for the real world by teaching them how to work with peers who might have different ideas and approaches to handle a situation. It also fosters accountability by making every student realize that his actions would impact performance of the entire team. Another benefit of team work is that it brings students together and helps them learn from each other.
  • Conduct Q&A Sessions: Share educational videos with the students and create a set of questions based on them. Also, create tutorials and how-to-videos related to the topic being taught in the classroom. Conduct tests by asking the students to create their own how-to-videos or answer on interactive apps and record the same on their desktop screens to share with you.
No matter which approach you choose, you are sure to find plenty of online tools to help you in making your classroom interactive.

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