Welcome!

• Help yourself to a snack.• Discuss the following question until we begin

at 1:30:• What behaviors do you expect from your

students as you teach and they learn?• Examples to get you started:– Listen– Ask questions– Complete assigned tasks

CLC Objectives

• We will explore and experience strategies to facilitate 100% student engagement and accountability.

• You will leave with a repertoire of strategies to use immediately in your classroom

Purpose

We know that engaged students: learn at higher levels and have fun doing it; gain a deeper understanding of what they learn; retain more of what they learn.

Initiation

• What strategies are you currently using to increase student engagement?

• Why is student engagement important to instruction and student learning?

• Focus Question: (individual mental processing)• Table Talk: (verbal processing)• Random Sticks: (accountability)

Whole-Brain Teaching

6th Grade Math: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aSQOnd5x1RA4th Grade Test Prep: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a2DKtRZw63M

Directions: Individually take notes as you watch the video clips and then we will share out.

7 Power Teaching Techniques

1. Gestures2. Teach! ... Okay! (alternating speakers using “switch”)

3. Class? ... Yes?4. Scoreboard (mighty groan or Oh, Ya!)

5. Micro lecture (30 seconds for better retention)

6. Hands and eyes (whenever you have a really big point)

Repetition is Key“The person that talks the most, learns the

most.”• Think-Pair-Share• Templates• Word Slap Game– One child reads a word from the chart, all

students repeat, one child slaps the word• Sentence reading– After one child reads, have the group read it

chorally to build fluency

Accountability and Informal Assessment

• Numbered heads

• Random sticks• Spinner• Dice• Share the pen• Call groups

• Thumbs up• Hold it, throw it• Write it on white

boards• Hold up fingers 1-

5• Ball toss

Collaborative Grouping

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TEACHING PLACE

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Save the Last Word for ME• Each team member reads one page from the

menu of strategies• The first person chooses one of the strategies,

and reads it aloud without commenting– Each member has 1 minute to respond with

their thoughts, questions, or examples– The reader has 2 minutes to share why he

or she chose the strategy and to build on what the other members said

Chalk Talk

• Everyone has one marker• Write on the chart at the table about the given

topic, quote, math problem, etc.• When the music stops, take the same marker

to the next table• Read the chart and add additional strategies

or comment on what is written already• You will end up back where you started

Gallery Walk

• Take a few minutes to review each poster• Find a partner and discuss how you could use

this strategy in your classroom

BINGO!

• What strategies do you remember from today?

• Write a different student engagement strategy for every square on the BINGO board

• I’ll call out strategies and if you have them on your board, you can mark it off.

• Who will win BINGO?

Transformation

• Try implementing at least one strategy in your classroom

• Be ready to share at our next CLC on April 30th. • We will be creating our SLO post-assessments

on April 30th.