Teaching Recitations

The articles and resources cited below provide ideas for improving and optimizing the content and format of recitations in order to support active learning, and to help students develop enduring understanding of key concepts.

Guidelines for Building Interaction into Recitations (ppt)

Using Groupwork in Mathematics Recitations: Some Guidelines and Considerations (doc)

MIT Experiments in Using Small Groups in Recitations
(summaries of assessments):

• Use of Small Group Tutorials in Mechanical Engineering (rtf)
• A Study of the Effect of Discovery Learning Strategies on Learning in a 2.001 Recitation (rtf)
• An Experimental Version of “Circuits and Electronics” (6.002ex) (doc)
• Use of Tutorials in Multivariable Calculus (doc)

See also:

• "Teaching Teamwork"
(elsewhere on the TLL website)
Additional Reading:

• "An Innovative Selection and Training Program for Problem-based Learning (PBL) Workshop Leaders in Biochemistry"
  Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Education, 31(2) pp. 132–136, 2003.
  T. Platt, E. Barber, A. Yoshinaka, and V. Roth
• “Collaborative Approach Raises Pass Rate in Organic-Chemistry Course at Rochester”
  The Chronicle of Higher Education, 27 April 2001.