Full Description
Make your lessons interesting, interactive, and engaging
Successful lessons are explicit, yet also inspire active learning and opportunities to respond. As the one shaping lessons, can you do better? Probably, and you're not alone. Research shows teachers consistently offer students far fewer than the recommended opportunities to respond, leaving all students—including those with special needs and behavior challenges—less than engaged and falling short of their best chance for success.
With this book, you'll discover 14 strategies you can translate directly to your classroom, complete with descriptions, advantages and disadvantages of each, and how and when best to use them. Divided into three parts, you will be guided through
Verbal engagement strategies, such as whip around, choral responding, quick polls, and individual questioning
Non-verbal engagement strategies, such as stop and jot, guided notes, response cards, and hand signals
Partner and teaming strategies, such as turn & talk, cued retell, four corners, and classroom mingle
Dive into these strategies and transform your classroom into a rich and interactive environment—no matter the subject, context, or age of your students.
Contents
Introduction: Student Engagement and Teacher Responsibility
Section I: Verbal Engagement Strategies
Whip Around
Quick Poll
Choral Responding
Individual Questioning Strategies for Student Response
Section II: Nonverbal Engagement Strategies
Stop and Jot
Guided Notes
Response Cards
Colored Choice
Multiple Choice
True/False
Response Slates and Whiteboards
Hand Signals
Fist to Five
Fingers for Numbers
Thumbs Up/Thumbs Down
Section III: Partner and Team Engagement Strategies
Turn and Talk
Cued Retell
Numbered Heads Together
Four Corners
Snowball
Classroom Mingle
Conclusion: Putting It All Together
Appendix
A. Stop-and-Jot Template—Elementary
B. Stop-and-Jot Template—Secondary
C. Response Card Templates
D. Fist-to-Five Visual
E. Thumbs Up/Thumbs Down Visual
F. Thumbs Up/Thumbs Down/Thumbs Sideways Visual
G. Cued-Retell Sheet
H. OTR Data Collection Form—Overall OTR Only
I. OTR Data Collection Form—Individual/Group OTR-Specific Strategies Used
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