197 Educational YouTube Channels You Should Know About - InformED : Student Engagement Strategies: Get and Keep Students on Task Keeping students on task is the primary challenge for any teacher. If your high school or middle school students are doing what they should be doing, then you do not have any management problems. Getting Students on Task Classroom procedures and routines are essential for getting students on task. Once students enter the classroom, they should follow a routine up until they are dismissed from class. Routines are created by procedures. Keeping Students on Task Having lessons that students actually want to learn will be your main tool for keeping students on task. Differentiated Learning Every student is different. Differentiation is not only having multiple learning modalities in one lesson, it is using many lessons that concentrate on different learning modalities. Lesson Plans Inc. strives to create great curriculum.
Strategies for Helping Students Motivate Themselves Editor's Note: This piece was adapted from Building a Community of Self-Motivated Learners: Strategies to Help Students Thrive in School and Beyond by Larry Ferlazzo, available March 21, 2015 from Routledge. My previous post reviewed research on extrinsic and intrinsic motivation, and described the four qualities that have been identified as critical to helping students motivate themselves: autonomy, competence, relatedness, and relevance. In this post, I'll discuss practical classroom strategies to reinforce each of these four qualities. Autonomy Providing students with freedom of choice is one strategy for promoting learner autonomy. Some researchers, however, believe that a third option, cognitive choice, is a more effective way to promote longer-lasting student autonomy. Competence Feedback, done well, is ranked by education researcher John Hattie as number 10 out of 150 influences on student achievement. But how do you handle providing critical feedback to students when it's necessary?
Tools for Teaching: How to Transform Direct Instruction Summer is the time to look over those unit plans. As you reflect and rethink lessons, here's something to consider: How can you turn direct instruction into experiences where students instead discover? We all know that designing learning activities takes time and brainpower -- both often limited during the mad rush of the school year. For new teachers, I'd like to help you get started: Let's first take this direct instruction on the topic of imagery: The teacher begins by presenting students with a definition for imagery and gives an example of it. Now, let's transform that scenario into a lesson of student-centered discovery: First step: The teacher dramatically reads aloud a short story, asking students that whenever they can picture something -- see an image in their minds -- put a star by those words. Second step: Then, students partner up and draw a picture to go with each star they have in common. Rationale I taught high school students and used this very lesson. I hear and I forget.
6 Scaffolding Strategies to Use With Your Students What's the opposite of scaffolding a lesson? It would be saying to students something like, "Read this nine-page science article, write a detailed essay on the topic it explores, and turn it in by Wednesday." Yikes -- no safety net, no parachute, no scaffolding -- just left blowing in the wind. Let's start by agreeing that scaffolding a lesson and differentiating instruction are two different things. Scaffolding is breaking up the learning into chunks and then providing a tool, or structure, with each chunk. Simply put, scaffolding is what you do first with kids, then for those students who are still struggling, you may need to differentiate by modifying an assignment and/or making accommodations for a student (for example, choose more accessible text and/or assign an alternative project). Scaffolding and differentiation do have something in common though. 1. How many of us say that we learn best by seeing something rather than hearing about it? 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. Trying Something New
Great Questions Great Questions These questions are merely suggestions for getting a good conversation going. We encourage you to use the ones you like and to come up with your own. This list is in no particular order. Great questions for anyone Who has been the most important person in your life? Friends or Colleagues If you could interview anyone from your life living or dead, but not a celebrity, who would it be and why? Grandparents Where did you grow up? Raising children When did you first find out that you’d be a parent? Parents Do you remember what was going through your head when you first saw me? Growing up When and where were you born? School Did you enjoy school? Love & Relationships Do you have a love of your life? Marriage & Partnerships How did you meet your husband/wife? Working What do you do for a living? Religion Can you tell me about your religious beliefs/spiritual beliefs? Serious Illness Can you tell me about your illness? Family heritage What is your ethnic background? War Were you in the military?
The Best Student Engagement Strategies Explained - Paired Response When it comes to teaching, there are really two secrets - relationship and engagement. When it comes to relationship, the recipe is very simple - care about the students and remember that "it is not about you". Student Engagement, on the other hand, is much more challenging. There are some tips and tricks to student engagement, and one of those is the concept of "Paired Response." What is it? What does that look like? What are the steps? Assign partners -Have students paired up in advance to save on time, considering different pairings for different purposes. Peer work shows gains for all students, but it's essential for English language learners and is especially beneficial for these groups as well: Students in grades 1-3 Inner-city settings Low SES Minority students What are the crucial points?
Skolcoacherna How Student Centered Is Your Classroom? In the education world, the term student-centered classroom is one we hear a lot. And many educators would agree that when it comes to 21st-century learning, having a student-centered classroom is certainly a best practice. Whether you instruct first grade or university students, take some time to think about where you are with creating a learning space where your students have ample voice, engage frequently with each other, and are given opportunities to make choices. Guiding Questions Use these questions to reflect on the learning environment you design for students: In what ways do students feel respected, feel valued, and feel part of the whole group? Balancing Teacher Roles So let's talk about that last question, and specifically, direct instruction versus facilitation. Facilitation: open-ended questioning, problem posing, Socratic seminar, and guided inquiry Direct instruction: demonstration, modeling, and lecturing Coaching: providing feedback, conferencing, and guided practice
Stop The False Generalizations About Personalized Learning In March, Tom Loveless, a fellow at the Brookings Institution, took an outdated swipe at the logic behind moving toward a student-centered learning system. He in essence suggested that because the curriculum wars have been decided more or less empirically, that people bent on disrupting the classroom and the factory-model education system were doing so under faulty assumptions about how students learn. In his piece, he attacked the logic of teaching around multiple intelligences and pointed to some of the research that shows that tailoring learning opportunities to common assumptions around visual, auditory, and other such supposed learning styles are not good ways of teaching different students. Today’s factory-model education system, which was built to standardize the way we teach, falls short in educating successfully each child for the simple reason that just because two children are the same age, it does not mean they learn at the same pace or should follow the same pathway.
Differentiation and explicit teaching in English | Teaching AC English Simple Student Engagement Strategies - Mr. Guymon's Classroom "I love seeing blank stares from my students after posing a question about what we are learning," said no teacher ever. Still, we have all been there. While many students sit like logs, waiting for someone to act on them, equally discouraging are the hogs, those four or five students who always have their hand up. I'm not immune to the situation, bet here are three strategies that I use in my classroom that help to engage all students in discussions that you might consider using too. House of Cards When students walk into my classroom, I'm always at the door to greet them. "Do I have any 7s?" I have students leave their card face up on their desk so that I know that none of them are trying to go under the radar. Hollywood Mingle Movement is a great way to get students participating. If students are growing restless, or I simply want to shake things up, I'll tell them that we are going to have a "Hollywood Mingle" to discuss this next concept or question. Pirates! Poker Face
”Ta in en coach – och släpp kontrollbehovet” De är båda lärare i botten, men för ett antal år sedan upplevde de att de kört fast i sin lärarroll. Grundskoleläraren Anna-Karin Arenius kände sig ensam i klassrummet och hade svårt att sätta upp egna mål för sin undervisning. Gymnasieläraren Helena Isakson ville bli bättre på att stötta sina elever att nå målen. Deras lösning blev en coachutbildning. – Många ekonomiska ämnen handlar om entreprenörskap och här kände jag att jag saknade något som lärare. Jag hade ett kontrollbehov och behövde lära mig att släppa taget och förlita mig på att eleverna kan hitta sina egna lösningar och svar, säger Helena Isakson, som tidigare var biträdande rektor och gymnasielärare i ekonomiska ämnen. Nu driver de tillsammans Skolcoacherna, som ansvarar för individuell coachning i Skolverkets treårsprojekt ”Handledning för lärande”. – Det övergripande målet för coachning är alltid högre elevresultat, men det går att använda till så mycket i skolan. Hur hjälper ni dem som tappat lusten? Källa: Skolcoacherna
The Qualitative Formative Assessment Toolkit: Document Learning with Mobile Technology What is qualitative formative assessment? Some call it anecdotal or informal assessment. However, such designations imply passivity -- as if certain things were captured accidentally. I believe the word "formative" should always be included with the word assessment because all feedback mechanisms should help shape and improve the person (or situation) being assessed. For my purposes, qualitative formative assessment is the ongoing awareness, understanding, and support of learning that is difficult or impossible to quantify. Carly Schuler stated that the learner needs to be mobile, not the technology. These approaches form the Qualitative Formative Assessment Toolkit (QFAT). 1. Cameras are powerful tools for capturing moments and documenting learning. 2. Learners spend time using technology as part of their learning, but not all software or applications have a "save" button, especially in moments that may be more interesting than a final export. 3. A Quick Hands-On Break Let's practice.