Intellectual Curiosity Dominic Bygate D BygateHerts ac uk

Intellectual Curiosity Dominic Bygate D. Bygate@Herts. ac. uk

Intellectual stimulation Has been defined as instructors’ ability to challenge students and promote intellectual growth. Possible approaches: • Using an interactive teaching style • Challenging students (e. g. , making sure students know the material well and pushing students to do their best) • Encouraging independent thought (e. g. , helping students think critically and helping students come to their own conclusions about course material ) (Bolkan & Goodboy, 2010).

What are the issues that you have come across

Motivation

What do the students find stimulating? • Examples of real world applications/current affairs • Different speakers • Challenging tasks made progressively harder • Enthusiastic lecturer/fun/enjoyable • It needs to be engaging – 2 hours is a long time • Cannot be common sense – must be more than this • Discussions • Engagement/interaction with the lecturer

What is it you find stimulating about your subject?

How can we translate this to create stimulating experiences for the students

How most people become good at things • Practice – most common • Learn from mistakes • Experimenting • Trial and error • Repetition • Experience • Having a go These are all about doing!

What are learners supposed to be doing in the session? making decisions? applying ideas? guessing causes? solving problems? Students learn from what they do, not what from what we tell them.

Phil Race and Ruth Pickford – making teaching work • Rate the components of you course/ session learning outcomes with three stars for intellectual stimulation • See less stimulating content as means to get students to the more stimulating content • What will students be able to do as a result of coming to your session? • Help students take pride in mastering something • Translate learning outcomes into more interesting language –what this means is. .

Assessment

What has worked for you?