Teaching with Stile in the classroom for experienced Stilists

The Stile teaching tips below will help you further augment your teaching practice with Stile.

Stile Education
Sep 4, 2018 · 3 min read

So, you’re comfortable with the basics of teaching with Stile in the classroom and you’re hungry to learn more. This is the article for you!

Here are the three key benefits of using the following advanced Stile teaching tips in the classroom:

  • Facilitating even better class discussions.
  • Quickly identifying and addressing individual student knowledge gaps.
  • Providing faster feedback to the class on key concepts

To further augment your teaching with Stile, we recommend building on the structure described in the beginner’s guide.

Teaching with Stile: Class discussion | Direct instruction | Facilitate independent learning | Consolidation

Class discussion

Stile’s Live Polls are perfect for facilitating better class discussions. Add one to your Stile lesson at a key discussion point. Have students answer in Stile, see who answered what, and have students justify their responses to each other.

Direct instruction

The key to direct instruction with Stile is to have students switch off their devices (“laptop down, eyes at the front”). Human eyes are inextricably drawn to the radiant light of a computer screen in front of them!

Laptops closed: Don’t set and forget!

Facilitate independent learning

Once you’ve got students working through questions at their own pace, open up Stile’s Class Insights. Here you will be able to immediately identify and address student knowledge gaps. As you see students answer questions incorrectly, walk over and help to nudge them back in the right direction.

Tip: If you’re up for an additional challenge, configure your computer’s display settings to make the data projector an extension of your laptop screen (as opposed to it mirroring your laptop screen, which is often the default setting). Once you’ve done this, you can display the lesson on the data projector, and display Class Insights or the model answers on your laptop screen.

Consolidation

Once students have worked through the lesson questions, it’s time to consolidate learning as a class. The best tool for this is Stile’s Quick Review (click “View responses” from the Class Insights page). Use it to quickly scan through student responses on the data projector and have students provide feedback on each others’ responses.

Tip: Stile’s Quick Review has special hotkeys! Use the left and right arrows to move between student responses. Use ‘R’, ‘W’, and ‘C’ for ‘right’, ‘wrong’, and ‘comment’ respectively.

Quick Review: Use hotkeys to mark student work in a couple of keystrokes.

This article is an excerpt of the Stile Guide. View and download the full Guide here or read another excerpt:
- Teaching with Stile in the classroom: a beginner’s guide
- Conducting formative assessment with Stile
- Running a prac with Stile
- Running a test with Stile
- Setting Stile for homework

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