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1.Strategy:
Jigsaw, Creator/Victim, Emotional Intelligence, and Wise-Choice Process
Application: World History
Educator:
Christopher Libertini, Faculty, History,
Dominican College, NY
Implementation:
Use this multi-step activity when teaching the rise of Nazi Germany
and World War II.
1)
Review the post-WWI crises in
Germany
.
2)
Have students read They Thought They Were Free by Milton Mayer.
3)
Introduce three On Course concepts: A) Creator/Victim B) Emotional
Intelligence and C) the Wise Choice Process.
4)
Set up Jigsaw teams of three. A) The first expert on each team applies the
Creator/Victim concept to the situation in post-WWI
Germany
. B) The second expert applies emotional intelligence to the situation in post
WWI Germany. C) The third expert applies the Wise Choice Process to the
situation in post WWI Germany, identifying and analyzing errors that were made
at critical forks in the road and proposing wiser choices that could have been
made.
5)
Expert groups meet to discuss their topic.
6)
Once back in home groups, each home group (using the concepts of
Creator/Victim, Emotional Intelligence, and the Wise Choice Process) discusses
how WWII could have been averted and the course of history changed.
7)
Each home group presents its thesis to the whole class.
2.
Strategy: Monthly Calendar
Application: This
strategy can be used in any class that has homework assignments and or tests
Educator: Diane
Raines, Faculty, English,
Roane State Community College,
TN
Implementation: Along
with a syllabus, I give my students a "tentative schedule" that has
all the dates the class meets. For each day the class meets, the schedule I
provide lists assignments due and what we will be doing in class that day. I
give students a variation of the monthly calendar (one for each month the class
meets) and have them fill in, using a certain color of ink (e.g., green), when
assignments are due in my class. I have them complete this task during class so
that I know they are doing it. I then recommend that they fill out their monthly
calendars for the rest of their classes, using a different color ink for each
additional class.
