4 ways to Practically Engage your students in the classroom
Are you struggling with how to implement project based learning? Are you worried your students are losing the ability for inquiry? Are you wanting to find ways to make your students more self reliant? Do you want to find ways to better utilize the best teaching practices effectively in the classroom without risking content? This course focuses on how to use various techniques like open-ended questions, student driven backwards design, and self directed projects to have students focus on not just hearing the content but truly engaging with content and practicing important life skills within the process.
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Lesson 1: Open-Ended Questions
One of the quickest ways to adjust your teaching in a really powerful way is to transform the types of questions you ask students into open-ended questions.
One of the quickest ways to adjust your teaching in a really powerful way is to transform the types of questions you ask students into open-ended questions.
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Lesson 2: Teaching in Multiple Modalities
On average it takes the average adult 10-20 repetitions to learn something. Students at least 30-50 repetitions. And for kiddos who are neurodivergent it can be more like 100-400 repetitions. This is part of the reason why educating is so exhausting But using the way the brain functions to cut down the number of repetitions needed by utilizing multiple modalities is a great way to make your activities more effective and to protect your time and energy as an educator.
On average it takes the average adult 10-20 repetitions to learn something. Students at least 30-50 repetitions. And for kiddos who are neurodivergent it can be more like 100-400 repetitions. This is part of the reason why educating is so exhausting But using the way the brain functions to cut down the number of repetitions needed by utilizing multiple modalities is a great way to make your activities more effective and to protect your time and energy as an educator.
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Lesson 3: PBL
PBL isn’t just a buzz word, but 4 key elements of how to focus the learning in your classroom so that your kids are both growing and engaged!
PBL isn’t just a buzz word, but 4 key elements of how to focus the learning in your classroom so that your kids are both growing and engaged!
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Design with not just the end but your students in mind!
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