Tutorial heaven
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Pattern Name - Tutorial heaven
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Problem
- Getting students to complete the readings for tutorials, so as not to waste valuable face to face sessions.
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Description
- Students arrive for tutorials without having done the preparation, making it impossible to achieve even participation among individuals in the group and lowering the energy of the class.
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Solution
- Give students a task to do that incorporates the reading preparation.
- Make it compulsory and award a small number of marks to the task.
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Implementation
- Example
- Students are divided into private groups on an online discussion board and asked to discuss the content of the readings prior to the tutorial.
- Each group must distill a list of issues or concepts from the readings that they are unclear about, are unresolved or that merit further analysis and discussion.
- Members of the group take it in turns to report their group’s issues back to their tutor via a posting on the discussion board.
- The posting is due the day before the tutorial.
- The tutor/lecturer gets a guide to the areas of the unit of study that students are finding problematic, unclear or contentious and can adjust the content of tutorials and lectures accordingly.
- [Thanks to Christine Crowe, lecturer in Digital Cultures for this example].
- Other possible tasks
- Contributing to a student generated glossary (see e.g. the case-study linked below)
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Related patterns
- Assessment map (getting students to work on their assignment ahead of the due date)
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