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Entry/Exit Tickets
• Used to set a stage, anchor a lesson or review
• A feedback point during or after a lesson to pull out information
• They can be in class checks for understanding, reviews and even homework.
• Used to put questions to you
• You can ensure you get something from everyone each time.
Bringing yourself into the classroom
• Relevancy and realness (Street Cred)
• An enjoyable and more relaxed atmosphere (for most)
• A hobby, passion or talent you have
• A willingness to share a little of ourselves and use it to build relationship and teach.
Vote with your feet
• Position and movement
• Decisions and discussion• Divide and conqueror – both sides vote a representative to speak for them.
Both sides speak and there is an opportunity for students to re-select their sides.
• Human Graphs• Age or dates
• Height
• Preferences or talents
Concentric Circles
• A great preview activity
• Inner and outer circles, opposite directions.
• Random stops and sharing
• Target in the Middle• The center is the expert knowledge area
• One step represents a certain amount of knowledge
• As they move closer to the middle, you get another graph of knowledge to help you know where they are on this subject
Target in the Middle
• Form a single circle
• Use a list of queries to have students decide their own level of “expertise” or mastery
• They step inward in accordance to their level of comfort and confidence with the idea or concepts
Randomness
• The law of equity and fairness often creates opportunities for student to learn to shut off during instruction.
• Round robins and step by step participation can even dictate when you student will be engaged and when they have permission to shut off
Dice and Randomness
• Gaming Dice – 30, 20, 12, 10, 8, 6, 4 sided
• Turns and decision making
• Numbered chairs/students• Rotate the numbers to keep it random
• Student participation, instead of having a student decide who’s next, they roll the dice and let it decide.
• Used to pick on board selections of questions, essays
• Used to select on a matrix tasks or assessments
Different Modes for Randomness
• Unknown terms
• Ticket System – at the end, all must have at least one ticket
• Teams of two or three
• Not only talk about, but classify or place in ordinal/cardinal/date sequence on the board
• Homework Vocabulary
• Written only response
• Silent response by entire class, all answer the question
Questioning
• We can thank Socrates for this method and Plato for writing it down. • Socratic method
• Open
• Closed
• Partial Open/Closed/Guiding Questions
• Bouncing/Bounding questions
• Rebounding and randomness
• 5 Why’s – getting to the roots
Questioning
• Incite and start the mind
• Allow for wrong answers at first, encourage risk taking
• Guide your students through the first few times.
Story telling
A Kinesthetic-Visual-Audio-Emotional –Aesthetic method of teaching
1. For use with any series of facts, events or parts that are related.
2. Easier to use when a single element is present throughout the series.
3. Focuses on the dynamics of presentation and acting.
4. Repetition is the key!
Story Telling• Several modes –
• Teacher Led where the teacher lines up actors and guides then through all movements.
• Student-Teacher corroborative – Both teacher and students develop the story line together.
• Student Led story-line – student develop the entire storyline and present it in class given a list of elements to portray Visually, Kinesthetically and Audibly.
• Key players are needed to help get it off the ground. This is the time to get the active talkers involved in learning.
• This is noisy and can sometimes take a bit of time to set up. Props are excellent in representing concepts or idea.
Story Telling
• Some ideas for story-lines
• Science – Parts of the cell talk about having the best jobs in the cell. (The mitochondria = powerhouse or muscleman). Life cycle of a frog.
• Math – Fractions break down the whole. Word based Questions where one or more variables change.
• Social Studies – Any biography or war. The rise and fall of Napoleon.
• English – Parts of describing what they do (in fact conjunction junction is a method of this approach). Watch the Reduced Shakespeare Companies version of his entire works.
Story Telling
• Start with a subject that is easily broken down into basic elements.
• Choose a visual, kinesthetic an audio anchor for each element.
• Set up the timeline and rehearse. This works very well with poetry or music.
• Have students repeat each element and action every time they are mentioned.
Story Telling (cont.)
• Start with the 1st element and always repeat all elements when you add on.
• Make sure you have a writing prompt at the end to help solidify the story.
• DI Approach- students could improve the dialogue, create poems, songs or other visual cues.
• If students create their own, you could have more than one team develop their own approach, therefore you have multiple examples of the same story.
Synectics
• A concept that is brought to knowledge through a comparison of like and unlike characteristics.
• A Revolution is like a Lover’s Quarrel
• A Verb is like an Athlete
• Photosynthesis is like breathing
• Economies of scale is like Wal-Mart
Process
• Modeled by teacher first.
• Like and unlike characters are listed and discussed
• Student then create their own allegory with their own list of likes and un-likes.
• Students then write their own definition of the given term
• They compare their definition with the “book”
Dynamic Tension
• Athletes and performers get experience and training in how to be ready to perform on demand. Few others ever get this preparation.
• Tension, like Eustress, can motivate and engage the brain. Careful! Too much shuts us down, too little does not motivate.
Hot Seat
• Dynamic Tension and teamwork
• A single person has the responsibility of answering
• Limited resources that build, or can be called upon (think Who Wants to be a Millionaire?”)
• The person in the seat MUST be the one to answer, all others whisper their inputs to them.
Extempore (Bowl of Knowledge)
• Take your vocabulary words, simple to complete math problems, parts of an item studied (anatomy, botany, etc.) and place them on same sized slips of paper or cards.
• Please the cards in a bowl or other container
• Students select the item and that is what they get to discuss for 2 minutes, write about or becomes an element in a project or team task.
• You can play this all day!
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