All Students are Actively Engaged

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All Students Are Actively Engaged
CreatingGreatClassrooms
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TODAYS AGENDA
Defining All Students Are Actively Engaged Brain
Research Connections Planning for Implementation
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Todays Objectives

• Explain how a neuron learns.
• Discuss the importance of active engagement as it
  relates to paying attention.
• List strategies for engaging all students
  throughout a lesson.
• Design a lesson that causes students
  to be actively engaged in
  their learning.

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What does our experience and prior knowledge say?
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All Students Are Actively Engaged When. . .

• The teacher is the facilitator in
  student-centered lessons.
• Classroom Management is evident to allow active
  participation.
• Learning is not optional for any student.

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Key Questions 1

• Who is primarily responsible for active
  engagement in the classroom?
• How does a stand and deliver teacher become
  more of a facilitator of learning?
• How does a teacher ensure that all students are
  actively engaged in a lesson?
• How can a teacher ask questions so that everyone
  has to respond, not just
  the one student with his hand up?

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Key Questions 2

• What is the benefit of individual pacing of
  student tasks?
• How does the layout or design of the classroom
  impact active learning?
• How can a teacher ensure that students are
  connected or mentally engaged while all the fun
  activities are going on?
• How do teachers hold every student accountable
  for learning?

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The Brain is Always Paying Attention to Something
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Hearing Words
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Hearing Words
Seeing Words
Speaking Words
Generating Words
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Students Must Talk About Their Learning
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From A Celebration of Neurons, Robert Sylwester,
1995
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Its All About The Axon!
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Staying Focused
Meaning Emotion Interest Learning
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David Sousa
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What strategies do you use in your class to cause
everyone to be engaged throughout the lesson?
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Great classroomsThey are places where All
Students Are Actively Engaged in their learning.
Classroom management strategies allow the teacher
to be the facilitator in the student-centered
lessons. The following taped scenes provide
examples of how to engage students so that being
involved in required for all students and
learning is not optional for anyone. Watch
these classroom clips in order to discuss the
third of six characteristics of a great
classroomAll Students are Actively Engaged!
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Literacy Links Literacy is the application of
reading, writing, speaking, viewing, and
listening in a variety of settings that empowers
the learner to think critically and
independently. CCS

• Students are Actively Engaged When. . .
• Materials are interactive
• They can explain the process and strategies they
  used to meet or exceed the standard
• Classroom talk focuses on standards and skills
  to be learned.

• They have ample opportunities to apply knowledge
  and skills
• They listen attentively AND Elaborate and build
  on each others ideas
• They participate in shared read alouds, Readers
  Theatre, Literacy Circles, choral reading, paired
  reading, etc.

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Classroom Applications
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2004-2005 Implementation Plan
During the next few weeks you will be given time
to implement these ideas in your classroom and to
practice All Students Are Actively Engaged
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Expectations and Opportunities for Feedback

• Grade Level / Departmental Meetings
• Peer Observations
• School Learning Walks
• Intra-School Learning Walks

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Closure
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