Escape room refers to a teaching technique whereby learners are supposed to uncover the clues to solving puzzles with the aim of achieving a set goal within a given time. Escape rooms are very advantageous when used in a classroom, and that makes the teaching professionals embrace it greatly.
Students know how to work together through the escape room plans. You can be sure of total engagement of all students in an escape room since everyone will want to share their escape plans.
Also, the escape room experience provides lessons that are valuable and that were considered as boring traditionally. Once the students are aware that they will have an escape plan to apply what they learnt from a lesson, they tend to be excited and more attentive to the lesson. That makes them pay much attention to the lesson they are being taught.
Since the escape room is a framework of a game, it is capable of breaking the monotony of an uninteresting lesson which enhances much student participation as well as lesson retention. It is not easy for learners to forget what they learnt through an escape room since the visual images will still be fresh in their minds. You can then be sure that students will have a good memory of a particular lesson.
Another good thing about using escape rooms in a classroom is that it covers all styles of learning. Such styles include; reading or writing, visual-auditory, and kinesthetic learning which students tends to integrate when trying to solve the puzzles.
You can be sure that your students will be capable of thinking outside the box if you make use of escape rooms in your classroom. Normally, the escape room is a gradual learning process whereby simple puzzles are solved first as students move on to more complicated ones. The final puzzles requires the students to use a higher level of thinking in solving them. Students are encouraged to critically reason to come up with solutions to the final puzzles.
Varying lessons and topics are accommodated in the escape room approach. Interpretation, spelling skills, language arts are some of the various learning skills that can be inculcated in a single game of the escape room.
In the escape room approach, students also apply, analyze and synthesize information as opposed to the traditional approach where memorization is embraced. It is therefore much easier to remember all that was learnt in a lesson.
In an escape room, it is not possible for a lesson to end before the students have completed their tasks.
Another advantage of an escape room is that once started; it requires very minimal guidance.
Finally, escape rooms are fun and exciting, which brings the students together, thus encouraging teamwork.