Wednesday, September 11, 2019

Needs some new ideas for student engagement?

The Top 3 from the LMC & IT this week 9/9/19: 

1. Do your Google slides need a little spring in their step? A little spicing up? Try these Slides templates that may be "new to you".
  1. Slides Carnival
  2. SlidesGo
  3. Slidesmania 
2. A Response Choice Board: Do you feel like your students may need more choice in how they are responding to your learning targets? Maybe they needed to engage with the content as creators rather than consumers? Here is an idea from Sue Henry (teacher in Ohio) who used this model at the end of a unit to increase student engagement. Just make a copy for your drive and change the content to fit your needs.

3. What's going on in this graph? Do your students have the skills to read what a graph is trying to tell us? Each month, the New York Times shares a graph without the title and captions. You can access this free monthly activity to give your students as they work to understand, evaluate and draw conclusions about what they see. There are then opportunities for discussions with students from around the country as well. A template is available for driving a discussion about what students observe, wonder and how they would headline the graph. Click here for that template (thanks goes to Alice Keeler for the template).

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