Yet, as many of us have found, those small steps can be the first down a road to a more positive and satisfying learning experience for students and professors alike. If as a noun , as a thing to be processed and passed along, then you present your truths, neatly packaged, to your students. But if you see learning as a verb , the process is different. Ask a question of the class requiring higher level thinking skills. Encourage students to think about the question and their answer for a couple of minutes.
Students then pair with a classmate to discuss answers.
Volunteer groups then share their conclusions with the class. As a lecture interruption or in the closing minutes of a class session, ask students to take out a sheet of paper and for one minute, summarize main points of lecture or note any muddy points of the lecture. Collect these and use feedback to target problem areas. Break the line in the middle, move the bottom half parallel to the top half. This creates dyads for discussion consisting of one extreme opinion coupled with a moderate opinion.