5.+Engage+Students

Question 5: What will I do to engage students?
Staff Brainstorm List: -Choice (type of assessment / assignment) -Relevance (real world / student focused) -Voice (parking lot activity / exit slips) -Learning Style Survey (creates student awareness of self, teacher feedback of classroom dynamics) -use of technology -collaborative work -multiple transitions (within each lesson, movement in classroom) -authentic & relevant (real-world applications) -add physical movement -differentiate -voice and choice -get out of the classroom -vary instructional strategies (paper and pencil, technology, hands-on, media, guest speakers) -student “teachers”- have students teach lessons to other students

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 * Ten Steps to Better Student Engagement**

This document explains the activity, steps, and adaptations.
 * Choice Boards; Tic-Tac-Toe & Menu Boards** allow teachers to differentiate to meet the varying needs and learning styles.

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 * MORE TIC-TAC-TOE Examples:** The following website gives a variety of tic-tac-toe board examples for a variety of content areas.

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 * ACADEMIC GAMES**

//**Assessing Student Interests and Strengths**// @http://www.readwritethink.org/professional-development/strategy-guides/assessing-student-interests-strengths-30100.html In this Strategy Guide, you'll learn about a number of specific methods that can help you to gain a fuller picture of the interests of your students as well as what your students understand, know, and can demonstrate by doing.

//**THINK-PAIR-SHARE STRATEGY**// @http://www.readwritethink.org/professiona-development/strategy-guides/using-think-pair-share-30626.html In this strategy guide, you will learn how to organize students and classroom topics to encourage a high degree of classroom participation and assist students in developing a conceptual understanding of a topic through the use of Think-Pair-Share technique.

This strategy guide introduces the RAFT technique and offers practical ideas for using this technique to teach students to experiment with various perspectives in their writing. @http://www.readwritethink.org/professiona-development/strategy-guides/using-raft-writing-strategy-30625.html.
 * Using the RAFT Writing Strategy**

= Video: Dan Pink on the surprising science of motivation = []

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=Beyond Student Engagement: Achieving a State of Flow= []
 * What is flow? Road to Mastery. The Secret.**


 * Article: Motivating Students to Read**

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 * Teaching with Technology**