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Engage your students from the start -- Weave course content into your icebreakers -- Create icebreakers that focus solely on immediate learning environment -- Give students something to do before each class session formally starts -- Enlarge the pool of participation at the very beginning -- Be a brain-friendly teacher -- Build brain interest in what is being taught -- Help your students' brains to "get it" -- Involve students often in the middle of your lesson -- Help students "save" the lesson in their brains -- Encourage lively and focused discussion -- Engage students before plunging into discussion -- State effective questions for discussion -- Improve the quality of discussion through student preparation -- Match the discussion format to the situation -- Facilitate the flow of conversation -- Urge students to ask questions -- Help students get started -- Create the need for questions -- Let students know you expect questions -- Let your students learn from each other -- Choose how you compose learning teams -- Build learning teams before giving students work -- Gradually immerse students in team learning -- Use a variety of team-learning activities -- Invite students to teach each other -- Enhance learning with experiencing and doing -- Create experiences that simulate or match reality -- Ask students to reflect on the experience -- Avoid "monkey see, monkey do" -- Use role-play to develop verbal skills -- Blend in technology wisely -- Encourage active exploration -- Use technology to supplement classroom instruction -- Promote collaboration through technology -- Make the end unforgettable -- Get students to review what's been learned -- Ask students to evaluate their accomplishments -- Have students plan for the future -- Let students celebrate the end -- Final advice.

"Teaching Actively is the follow-up to Mel Silberman's book Active Learning: 101 Strategies to Teach Any Subject. Where Active Learning is the ultimate book of recipes for improving classroom teaching, Teaching Actively shows you how to become an exceptional chef. From engaging students to presenting brian-friendly instruction, Teaching Actively is an approach to teaching that you can use to dramatically improve learning in your classroom." "Teaching Actively offers a comprehensive eight-step plan that you can follow to inspire active learning. It is applicable for all levels of education and contains ready-to-use ideas for bolstering your students' involvement in their education."--Jacket.