Tips & Tricks

• Recreate real contexts / situations, the more connected the activity is with real life, the more motivated and involved the students will be and the more effective the activity will turn out. Try role-playing techniques, they work very well as a motivational strategy.
• Encourage interaction among students and collaborative work, avoid competition among groups, create a cooperative learning environment.
• If possible, it is always a good idea to invite a professional from this field, they will provide a different, more enriching vision and will help bring students closer to professional environments.
• Encourage students to continually reflect as they work, not just at the end of each phase. Why am I doing this like this? Could you do it differently?
• Be flexible and leave room for the different reactions of students and their possible emerging ideas. Each student is different, some will follow the instructions step by step, while others will choose to work in a more autonomous way and go ahead, others may have trouble reflecting and drawing conclusions and are easily frustrated. You must be prepared as a teacher to respond to the full range of learning styles and rhythms.
• Support and guide students in critical moments where they are stuck to avoid frustration that can easily demotivate them.
• Carry out a true formative evaluation of each stage, but especially at the end of the process, not only quantitatively, but through specific comments. Students value this feedback positively because they feel that their effort is recognized and valued.