How to Involve and Engage Students

1. How to Involve and Engage Students Active Participation

2. What is Active Participation? • To consistently engage the minds of all learners with that which is to be learned. • To occupy the attention or efforts of a person or persons

3. Why is Active Participation Important? • It requires more involvement of the brain • Provides teachers the opportunity to assess the learning.

4. How Can We Promote Active Participation? • Eyes on speaker • Provide students with a prompt prior to partner talk • Allow THINK time • Drop and listen • Call on individuals to share • Confirm responses • Limit teacher talk • Give more turns (This is what it is all about)

5. Why Active? • Behavior

6. How to Involve and Engage Students • Passive • Active

7. Activities That Actively Involve and Engage Students

8. Reflect, Recap, and Retell

9. Ticket Out: Commit to a Strategy

10. To be used with “Tips: How to Involve and Engage Students” from Inspiring Teachers. Power Point Created byAmy Lack, Reading Coach