BORING'NOT Engaging Students

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B-O-R-I-N-G.NOTEngaging Students

• Tonda Vial
• Candee Langford
• Instructional Fair - LDHS
• ASCD Conference
• Atlanta- 2007

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Our ChallengeHow do we compete?

• Fast paced world of media and technology
• Various learning styles
• Learning disabilities
• Awareness of student attention span
• digestible chunks
• effective use of time intervals (15-20 minutes)

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What creates student engagement?

• Our lessons must appeal to at least one of these
  components.
• Cognitive (challenge their thinking)
• Emotional (sensory memory)
• Behavioral (movement increasing blood flow to
  the brain)

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Engagements to Consider

• Unusual information fun facts
• Games, puzzles, simulations
• Friendly controversy
• Inconsequential competition
• Possibility of being put on the spot
• Opportunity to talk about my thinking
• Physical movement

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High above the hushed crowd, Rex tried to remain
focused. Still, he couldnt shake one nagging
thought He was an old dog and this was a new
trick.
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Questioning mild pressure as a stimulus to
engagement

• Possibility of being put on the spot
• Questioning is effective in small groups
• Ask questions in which everyone participates
  response cards
• Response chain
• What do you think, Tonda? Candee, what do you
  think about what Tonda said?

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Vocabulary Terms Phrases
Things that conduct heat
200 POINTS
Terms in the water cycle.
Prime numbers
100 POINTS 100 POINTS
100 POINTS 100 POINTS
Things that are living
Liquids
Adverbs
50 POINTS 50 POINTS 50 POINTS
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Things Associated with the American Civil War

• Find a partner
• Determine person A and B

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• Robert E. Lee
• Ulysses S. Grant
• Gettysburg
• Slavery
• Antietam
• Emancipation Proclamation
• Abraham Lincoln

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Things Associated with Outer Space
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• Sun
• Orbits
• Mars
• Venus
• Saturn
• Galaxy
• Meteors

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Charades

• Determine partner A and B

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Charades
Circle Circumference Diameter Radius Arc Area
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Charades

• Triangle
• Base
• Height
• Right triangle
• Area
• Equilateral Triangle

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Pictionary

• Determine Partner A and B

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Pictionary
Westward Expansion, Reconstruction, Great
Migration, Prohibition
friction, magnetism, evaporation, erosion
addition, subtraction, multiplication, division
(cant use symbols like , -, x, ) glossary,
onomatopoeia, point of view, conflict
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Pictionary

• Inch, foot, yard, mile
• King George, Thomas Jefferson, George Washington,
  Benjamin Franklin
• Precipitation, orbit, rain forest, electricity
• Book cover, index, table of contents,
  bibliography

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Unusual InformationGlobal Warming

• Small chunks of information
• Stop turn and talk
• Assess
• Clarify, reteach, proceed

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Friendly Controversy

• Present opinions
• Choose a side
• Convince others through a friendly debate
• Making our debate visible thinking maps

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Unusual Information

• Chocolate
• Thinking Maps

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Summary

• Integration of content areas
• ELA
• Science
• Math
• Social Studies
• Geography
• Thinking Maps

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Contact Information

• Tonda Vial tvial_at_laurens55.k12.sc.us
• Candee Langford clangford_at_laurens55.k12.sc.us
• Hickory Tavern Elementary
• 575-2126
• Schoolwires web pages

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Credits

• The Art and Science of Teaching by Robert J.
  Marzano
• United Streaming