Encouraging Student Participation

1. Encourage students to learn each other’s names and interests.

2. Allow the class time to warm up before you launch into the discussion.

3. Limit your own comments. give your learners chances to give their opinions and comments too .

4.Allow the class time to warm up before you launch into the discussion.

5. Assign roles to students.Ask two or three students to lead a discussion session ..

6. Give quiet students special encouragement. Quiet students are not necessarily uninvolved, so avoid excessive efforts to draw them out. Some quiet students, though, are just waiting for a nonthreatening opportunity to speak. To help these students, consider the following strategies:

a) Arrange small group (two to four students) discussions.

b) Pose casual questions that don’t call for a detailed correct response:

c) Reward infrequent contributors with a smile.

All of which can be done – and more – on the new platform ! watch this space. :)

Yes! Marco, the new platform will be liberating and exhilarating for any tutor or student. Fikry, you are so experienced at teaching from the things you have said.