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what are some effective teaching
strategies there are hundreds of
effective teaching strategies but if I
had to narrow it down to just a couple
this is what I would say get your
students moving students want to move
and really we want to have our students
up out of their seats moving in some
fashion every twenty to thirty minutes
even if we're teaching high school we
want to have that kind of movement
there's a saying in education that when
the bum is numb the brain is the same
right so we need to get them out of
their seats and there's lots of
different ways that you can do that and
some are really involved in some are
really simple for example if you're
teaching your students are working on
something maybe silently or you're doing
some kind of direct instruction and you
notice that fifteen minutes have gone by
you can just stop and say you know what
students it's been 15 20 minutes we need
to get the circulation flowing stand up
do four cross laterals and sit back down
they stand up one two three four and
they sit back down and that's it and you
move on with your instruction that's
movement and that works you can do more
involved things have them stand up find
a partner talk for 47 seconds about
something you were just talking about
and then sit back down lots of ways to
bring movement in but the more we do
that the less our students act out
because really what they want to be
doing is moving and talking and when we
can make that legal for them to move and
talk in the classroom they're much less
likely than to be acting out throughout
the lesson my second tip is get students
talking more to each other to you just
more of them and less of you the
students are hearing our voices way too
much and because they're hearing our
voices way too much they're tuning us
out and then they're not hearing what
we're saying not hearing the
instructions that we're giving and
really the brain processes information
by talking it out with somebody else so
if you're the person doing all the
talking in the class then your brain is
the one that's going to get heavier not
the students my current research and
education indicates that at the
elementary level in an average American
elementary school classroom 80% of the
happening in the classroom is happening
from the teacher
that means the teachers brain is getting
heavier not the students so we want to
shift that have kids talking to each
other all the time this is you give your
instructions turn to a partner and
repeat the instructions to your partner
have the students work silently in pairs
or groups on something and then have
them talk about the process of working
in the group if you're lecturing to them
are doing direct instruction pause every
7 to 10 minutes have them turn and talk
about or do something with the
information that you were giving them
draw a picture that represents what I
was just talking about or write a
summary or write down or share outloud
two questions you have about what I was
just talking about something though that
you are not the person talking from more
than 10 minutes at a time and that they
have an opportunity to work with and
massage and process that information my
third tip is get everybody a hundred
percent on task when you are giving
instructions you when you are asking
questions when you're doing class
discussions a lot of what I see in the
classroom related to engagement is
teachers asking a question or posing a
question to their class and then they
get a few hands raised and they call on
the same five hands over and over and
over again
which means those five kids are really
getting the information and that's great
but those are not the only five kids who
are supposed to be getting the
information so how do we bring a hundred
percent engagement don't take volunteers
that's my number one idea call on
students randomly even better have
everybody write down a possible answer
maybe use little whiteboards hold up
their answers so that you can see a
hundred percent of students attempted to
answer the question that you asked it
can be really fast they erase it and you
move on the more you can bring a hundred
percent engagement where a hundred
percent of students have to answer a
question or talk about what you ask them
to talk about the more likely they are
to be on task to get the content and to
perform well on assessments that reflect
on not only them but on us and on our
schools
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