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Creating an Actively Engaged Classroom
14 Strategies for Student Success



June 2021 | 160 pages | Corwin

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.


 
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
 
References

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