
Collaboration Connection
February 2017
Student Engagement
Find Your Match (#13)
This is another activity that will get your students up and moving. Hand out one card to each student in the class and then have them get up and find the other student with the matching card. You can do this with many topics including: rhyming words, uppercase/lowercase, antonyms/synonyms, words/definitions, problem/solution, and words/pictures. I especially like doing this with math problems and solutions for older students and words to their matching pictures for younger students.
Use Stand Up-Hand Up-Pair Up at any point in the lesson to structure meaningful conversation. Think about using this strategy with rhyming words, math sentences, capital and lowercase letters, digital and analog clocks, vocabulary word and definition or initial consonant sound and pictures.
Instruction Spotlight
Think about the Student Engagement strategies used:
- Choral Response
- Partner Share
- Thumbs Up
- Physical Actions
- Teacher points out target letter/blend
- Students sound-out to self
- Students put thumb up when they know the word
- Students whisper word to partner
- All read word together.
Learning Targets
Technology
EDpuzzle is free tool that allows teachers to embed questions and comments into videos, sourced from YouTube, Crash Course, Teacher Tube and more. The best part is that this tool not only requires students to interact with video content, but also provides teachers with feedback about about their students understanding of it.
Simply create an account with EDpuzzle, which you and your students can make using your GAFE account, and you’re ready to create.
Professional Development
Share What You Learn
Have you recently attended a workshop or conference? Planning on attending one soon? Talk with your PLC Team Leader about getting on the agenda and sharing with your team what you learned.
Professional Resources
Active Engagement Strategies for Each Direct Instruction Component
www.shastacoe.org/uploaded/Dept/is/.../Active_Engagement_Strategies_3-17-09.pdf