List of Instructional Activities

Advice Letter

Analytic Memo

Annotated Portfolios

Anonymous Peer Feedback

Application to Major

Approximate Analogies

Assigned Questions

Assignment Assessments

Audio and Videotaped Protocols

Background Knowledge Probe

Blender

Bookmark Notes

Brainstorming

Brainstorming in a Circle

Brainstorming on the Board

Brainstorming Tree

Build From Restricted Components

Bumper Stickers

Case Studies

Categorizing Grid

Chain Notes

Chalk Talk

Choral Response

Classroom Assessment Quality Circles

Classroom Opinion Polls

Cloze Procedure

Compare & Contrast

Computer Assisted Instruction

Concept Attainment

Concept Formation

Concept Mapping

Conducting Experiments

Conferencing

Cooperative Learning Groups

Correspondence Lessons

Course-Related Self-Confidence Surveys

Crossword Puzzle

Debates

Defining Features Matrix

Definitions and Applications

Demonstrations

Diagnostic Learning Logs

Didactic Questions

Direct Facebook Friendship

Directed Paraphrasing

Discussion

Documented Problem Solutions

Double-Entry Journals

Drawing for Understanding

Drill & Practice

E-Mail Feedback

Embed Into PowerPoint

Empty Outlines

Essays

Everyday Ethical Dilemmas

Exam Evaluations

Explaining

Explicit Teaching

Fan Page

Field Observations

Field Trips

Find the Company

Fishbowl

Focused Autobiographical Sketches

Focused Imaging

Focused Listing

Forced Debate

Four Corners

Games Homework

Go to Your Post

Goal Ranking and Matching

Group Instructional Feedback Technique

Group Wiki Projects

Group-Work Evaluations

Guess the Password

Haiku

Hand Held Response Cards

Harvesting

Hollywood Squares

Human Bingo

Human Tableau

Imaginary Show and Tell

Impromptu Speeches

Inquiry

Instructor Storytelling

Interactive Video Quizzes

Interest/Knowledge/Skills Checklist

Interviewing

Introduce Your Partner’s Non-Obvious Trait

Invented Dialogues

Jeopardy

Jigsaw

Journals

Jury Trial

Laboratory Groups

Learning Activity Packages

Learning Centers

Learning Contracts

Learning Logs

Lecture

Lecture Reaction

Levels of Questions

Line Dance

Make It Personal

Make Them Guess

Memory Matrix

Minute Paper Shuffle

Misconception Check

Model Building

Movie Application

Movie Clips

Muddiest Point

My Christmas Gift

Name Game

Narratives

Notify Students Quickly

Objective Check

One-Minute Papers

One-Sentence Summary

Online Chat

Online Evaluation

Opposites

Optimist/Pessimist

Pair-Share-Repeat

Panels

Paper or Project Prospectus

Pass the Chalk

Peer Partner Learning

Peer Review Writing Task

Pick the Winner

Pictionary

Polar Opposites

Pop Culture Infusion

Post Links

PowerPoint Presentations

Pre-Class Writing

Press Conference

Press Conference (Guest Speaker)

Pro and Con Grid

Problem Recognition Tasks

Problem Solving

Problem Solving

Process Analysis

Productive Study-Time Logs

Profiles of Admirable Individuals

Provide Links

Psychoanalysis

Punctuated Lectures

Quaker Meeting

Question and Answer Cards

Questioning

Questioning Technique

Questions as Homework

Questions to Students

Quick Contact

Quick Division

Quote Minus One

Ranking Alternatives

Read Aloud

Reading for Meaning

Reading Rating Sheets

Recall, Summarize, Question, Connect, and Comment

Reflective Discussion

Replace Discussion Boards

Reports

Research Projects

Role Playing

Role Reversal

Role-playing

Scrabble

Self-Assessment of Ways of Learning

Simulations

Six Degrees of “RNA Transcription Errors”

Speed Sharing

Storytelling

Structured Controversy

Structured Overview

Student Pictures

Student Polling

Student Questions (Group-Decided)

Student Questions (Index Cards)

Student Storytelling

Student Summaries

Student Videos

Student-Generated Test Questions

Substitute for Blackboard Discussion Board

Super-Password

Surveys

Switch it up!

Synectics

Tabloid Titles

Teacher and Student

Teacher-Designed Feedback Forms

Telescoping Images

The Half Class Lecture

Think, Pair, Share

Think-Pair-Share

Total Physical Response (TPR)

Tournament

Town Hall Meeting

Trio Rotation

True or False?

Truth Statements

Tutorial Groups

TV Commercial

Tweeted Announcements

Twenty Questions

Twitter Poll

Two Truths and a Lie

Video Demonstrations

Wait Time

What/How/Why Outlines

What’s the Principle

Who am I?

Wiki Class Notes

Wisdom of Another

Word Journal

Word of the

Writing Fables

Writing to Inform

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