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Classroom Management Through Student Engagement
February 14, 2013
Strategies for engaging and active lessons.
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Classroom Management Through Student Engagement
Engaging lessons include: –Introduction–Instruction–Practice–Assessment
TEACH
PRACTICE
ASSESS
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Introduction
How do you grab students’ attention? –Pecha Kucha (example)–Poems–Stories/anecdotes–Music
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Pecha Kucha: An Engaging Lesson…
THINK – PAIR – SHARE
Which images stuck out to you, and why do you think they were chosen?
Why was this a powerful way to start a lesson?
What “hooks” do you use to begin your lessons?
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Instruction
What techniques can you use to make your instruction more engaging? –Ideas for lecture-based lessons–Ideas for text-based lessons–Further ideas for creative strategies
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Instruction: Lecture
Ideas for “chunking-out” your lecture… because lectures are boring, and bored kids act out! –Think-pair-share (example)–Using a graphic organizer to categorize information (example)
–Collective knowledge poll (example)
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Instruction: Lecture
Golden Rule of Teaching:
Never tell people what they already know. Have them tell you.
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Instruction: Lecture
Collective knowledge poll:
• On Post-It notes, write your favorite strategies for:– Getting to know students
– Dealing with misbehavior in the classroom
– Addressing sensitive topics like sex
– What to do when kids push your buttons
• Place your ideas on the flipchart paper, grouping it with other similar ideas.
• Present!
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Instruction: Text - Jigsaw the Multiple Intelligences
Jigsaw:
• Great for large pieces of text
• Text has to be just at or a little below grade level understanding
• Groups take a section of the text, read to understand and then present to the class, teacher adds important information
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Instruction: Text - Jigsaw the Multiple Intelligences
• Within your team, read the definitions of your assigned category (analytic, introspective, interactive)
• As a group, discuss the types of activities that a student who fits into your category would need to be able to fully engage in your presentation
• Create a poster showing your ideas
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Instruction: Text
Other text-based ideas:
• Collaborate: Give each member of a group of three a role: reader, summarizer, checker (did the summarizer do a good job of summarizing?). Have them switch roles regularly.
• Post-It! Use those handy sticky notes to keep kids engaged in the text. Give them a stack of stickies to write down questions, thoughts, new vocabulary words, or answers to questions. They can then post their stickies to a poster hung somewhere in the room. Discuss the answers.
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Assessment
How do you know what your students learned?
• Independent, small group, whole class
• Remember the Multiple Intelligences (draw, write, sing, act out, dance, create an instruction manual, journal, one-on-one with the teacher)
• Post-its are your friend
• *Every* class ends with some sort of assessment
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Quick Review
Techniques/Activities We Used Today:
• Pecha Kucha
• Think Pair Share
• Graphic Organizer
• Collective Knowledge
• Poster Presentations
• Assessment Strategies