In this teaching method you ask students to explain their knowledge about a concept in a table, graph or other image. The results will give an impression of their level of knowledge and enable you to better target future teaching assignments.
- Activity goal
- Assess | Exchange knowledge | Recap / Summarize
- When
- In class
- Where
- Offline | Online
- Duration
- < 30 minutes| < 60 minutes
- Group size
- Small | Medium
- Materials
Miro (online) or pen and paper (offline)
Step-by-step
Step 1
During your preparations, select one of the eight methods of visualising knowledge from this article.
Step 2
Introduce the new topic or concept in the session with the students.
Step 3
Introduce the way in which you want students to map out their knowledge.
Step 4
Ask open questions and give students enough time to develop their chart or table.
Step 5
Let students explain their visual and use the information you obtained for your next sessions.
The source of this activity is this article by Campbell and Campbell. Starting on page 13, the different forms of work are explained. At a later stage on TeachEUR we will add downloads of the charts you can use.
