In a spooky Halloween adventure, hosts Josh Luckens and Megan Hamilton Giebert are thrust into an educational encounter with the supernatural world. We feature an oracular radio drama in which a lost professor contends with ghosts, zombies, and a truth-telling student, and teaching tips are conveyed from the great beyond via Arioch Wentworth's gramophone.

Beware: this episode features course design and delivery strategies from a Dickensian figure who may or may not be a ghost. Their ancient wisdom is so potent that it might just help you transform your teaching practice and cast a lasting spell of engagement on your students…

Additional resources:

Maurice’s strategies to keep students in class using intrinsic motivation:

1. Make class time fun and engaging

2. Make learning social

3. Make real world connections

4. Emphasize the positive

5. Demonstrate that you care

Maurice’s strategies to keep students in class using extrinsic motivation:

1. Do meaningful things in class that uniquely happen during class time

2. Require attendance, take attendance, and/or grade attendance…while offering some flexibility, since we’re all human (although Maurice might actually be a ghost…)

Links:

• Chronicle of Higher Education article: Why Students Are Skipping Class So Often, and How to Bring Them Back

• Check out the Teaching & Learning Collaborative website for additional teaching strategies and tips.

• Try the virtual theremin for all your spooky sound needs!

(October, 2022)