This past week, my intro. students have been working on timelines to coorespond to significant dates in healthcare history. Today we did the gallery tour and they loved it! We did it very similar to how we did it in class. They get to see their artwork on the walls and their placement was determined by what their peers thought. You see, I'm allowing them to be on the walls for their test to help them out. However, most of them forgot that as they were doing the project and you can barely see the writing for it being so small. They were all excited to see the comments and, even more so, the "awards" they won for their hard work!
What to try next? I guess I need to go back to class to learn some more tricks! :)
Hi Julie,
ReplyDeleteThat sounds great! I had forgotten about the gallery tour. Yes, I will come up with something to use that for my classes too. It was fun when we did it this summer.
Sounds like you are off to a good start!
Connie
Yes, yes..that was a great way to teach an otherwise boring topic in intro...I will use it as well! I am uncertain if we will even cover that.
ReplyDeleteI am following my mentor's lead since she has one intro class and I have two. We are now starting Infection Control...I think we should go more in the order and outline of the book, but she has 14 years experience, so for NOW anyway, I follow her lead. Perhaps the class needs a fresh approach. Some of the tricks we learned this past summer. Kim