The key question for designing your Face-to-Face (F2F) session is, how are you going to make it meaningful to your students so that they are engaged and actively participating in the learning process when they are with you? While we are including this resource as a means of engaging students in a hybrid course, the following practices are still very applicable to all traditional face-to-face courses.
Below are just a few instructional strategies that are better-suited for the face-to-face sessions. Some of the instructional strategies include a link to a separate section explaining how to conduct the strategy in a hybrid class.
- Case study analysis
- Debates
- Demonstrations
- Games
- Group collaborative project
- In-class writing
- Mini-lecture/interaction
- Polling students
- Presentations
- Problem-based learning exercises
- Role-play
- Simulation exercises
If you are teaching a hybrid course that will be using a video conferencing component such as Zoom you can still utilize the instructional strategies list in the section above. Although it takes planning, it is possible despite being connected to multiple classrooms or to students individually at their homes. The instructional strategies listed in the sub-pages in this section will include examples of how to conduct instructional strategies in a video conferencing component from the viewpoints of different levels of technology integration and student engagement. You will then be presented with a real-world, practical scenario to consider how you could adapt and plan your instruction.
Resources Used For The Face-to-Face Instructional Strategies Section:
Adapted with permission from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. To see the original, go to Activities by Course Type.
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