The Use of Fishbowls to Improve the Quantity and Quality of Student Contribution

KEYWORDS: Contribution, Student Preeparation

I had tried everything I could think of to get students to come to class ready and willing to engage —contribution points, cold calling, ranting and raving. Nothing seemed to help, until I tried fishbowls and found some success. I’ll show you what a fishbowl is in case you haven’t seen one in action, share the results of my experiment, and provide some ideas on you might integrate them into your larger sections.

Author(s):

Kelly Grace
Georgia State University
kgrace@gsu.edu
United States