What would Joy say?

1. What would Joy say? An Action Maze

2. Instructions Choose the best answer to each question according to Egbert (2005) and Blake (2008).

3. Your students are bored and unengaged in your class lectures about language. What should you do? • Use PowerPoint to make your lessons more interesting. • Stop lecturing completely. • Give students a reason to listen and a way to apply the information.

4. You try to use PowerPoint but it just distracts the students from your boring lessons. What should you do? • Make better PowerPoints. • Try Prezi instead. • Think of a different way to engage the students.

5. You stop providing direct instruction through lecture and your students feel lost with your new student-centered methods. What should you do? • Go back to lecturing. • Try to balance direct instruction with student-centered methods. • Work with students to figure out how they learn best.

6. You provide a brief, 5-minute task for students to talk about how they would use the language item. However, they are still unengaged in the rest of the class. What should you do? • Try to balance direct instruction with student-centered methods. • Work with students to figure out how they learn best. • Ignore them completely because the administration directs your instruction and you have no choice.

7. You read Presentation Zen and make more interesting PowerPoints, but you’re still lecturing and students aren’t really more engaged. What should you do? • Try Prezi instead. • Think of a different way to engage the students. • Work with students to figure out how they learn best.

8. You make your lecture in Prezi, but it’s still a lecture and students are even less engaged than before. What should you do? • Stop lecturing completely. • Think of a different way to engage the students. • Ignore them – you are doing what’s required.

9. You decide to do half lecture and half hands-on activities, but the students are still not engaged during the lecture. What should you do? • Stop lecturing completely. • Try Prezi instead. • Work with students to figure out how they learn best.

10. You give students a survey and have a discussion with them to explore how they might be more engaged. What should you do now? Joy says to keep going in that direction – there are many ways to meet the administration’s goals and many tools to engage students along the way. Congrats for being a great teacher!

11. You ignore your students’ needs and do what the administration tells you to do. What else should you do? • Joy says to think about getting a job in a different industry.