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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…

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Pecha Kucha: An Engaging Lesson…

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Pecha Kucha: An Engaging Lesson…

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Pecha Kucha: An Engaging Lesson…

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Pecha Kucha: An Engaging Lesson…

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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

What’s Your Style?

“Sage on the Stage”

OR

“Facilitator in the Field?”

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Instruction: Lecture

Looks like Sounds like

Sage on the Stage

Facilitator in the Field

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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 – What is it?

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1stQtr

3rdQtr

East

West

North

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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

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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

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Assessment

Now you try:

• Verbal – Name one thing that you will take back to your program from today.

• Written – Complete the “Ideas to Use” worksheet

• Long-term – Survey Monkey in 6 weeks