This will be our final week sharing best practices from your colleagues on ways that they live out our Core Value, “Make our school the best choice for parents and students.” I appreciate everyone’s approach to support our enrollment efforts to retain students. I am highlighting Danielle’s strategies below.
We identified the importance of using these three questions when backwards planning and embedding assessment questions into your daily lesson.
Vote With Your Feet is a great instructional strategy when embedding assessment questions into your lessons by having students demonstrate their choice in a multiple-choice question by posting answers/solutions around the room. We performed a variation of Vote With Your Feet when I had you stand by the person whose statement was similar to yours.
Vote With Your Feet allows a teacher to assess all students’ level of understanding or misconception quickly based upon student votes. This strategy engages students in learning by allowing them to physically move to a location to demonstrate their knowledge or opinion.
To implement this strategy, watch it in action below.
During PD on Wednesday, we identified the importance of using instructional strategies to increase student engagement. For the next few weeks, I will be sharing instructional strategies in the blog as a resource. We briefly discussed Value Line/Fold the Line during our time together. This strategy is typically used for social studies, science, and ELA topics, but can be modified for math. To implement this strategy, follow the directions below.
1. Present students with an issue or topic.
2. Ask students to position themselves in a physical line from
those who "strongly agree" to those who "strongly disagree"
in response to the topic.
3. Form groups by folding the line in half so that students with
the most dissimilar levels of agreement are now paired up.
4. Provide time for group members to share their reasons for their perspective.
To simplify this strategy, you could pose
only two options. This would work for discussing ways to solve math problems or
any topic where students either agree or disagree.
Watch it in action below.
Click on Rewards & Incentives for classroom reward and incentive ideas. Please explore all four Jamboard pages for ideas other than what was discussed with your wing.
Thank you for the collaboration and sharing of ideas.
