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Top 24 Interactive Teaching Methods to Incorporate into Your Next ISBA Law Ed Presentation
- Hypotheticals
- Simulations
- Skits (Live or Video)
- Storytelling
- Talk Show Presentations with Audience Q & A
- Quizzes
- Audience Polling Questions
- Flipped Classroom (assign lecture or Ted Talk before program and discuss at program)
- Table Clinics (a.k.a. Speed Dating) – have experts at each table leading interactive discussion on set topics; attendees switch tables/topics every 10 – 20 minutes
- Rapid Fire short presentations by multiple experts followed by table clinics
- Trouble Shooting Tribes – Give an assignment to breakout groups and ask them to report back with their response to the assignment
- Hands-On Activities (i.e. Filming a Video on Topic on Smartphones during program)
- Use a flip chart to list audience responses during discussion segments
- Music
- Questions on Wall Charts – have audience get up and write answers to discussion on wall charts or have audience use post-it sticky dots to answer questions they agree with
- Puzzles
- Video Clips
- Games
- Game Show Format, such as Jeopardy
- Prizes for audience participation
- Real Time Internet Searches (if wireless Internet is available)
- Have Audience Text questions to speaker (provide phone number)
- PowerPoint (but only if low on text and heavy on pictures)
- Homework (i.e. have attendees write down an application point and self-address a postcard -- you mail them a reminder in 6 weeks)