Description
Book SynopsisMake 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 studentsincluding those with special needs and behavior challengesless 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 environmentno matter the subject, context, or age of your students.
Table of ContentsIntroduction: 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 References
