Keep them Engaged! Part 2
Tip #3- Allow your students to Read Aloud BOOKS! Check out Destiny Discover , Storyline Online , Epic! , StoryTime Online , and Ju...
Keep them Engaged! Part 2
Keep them Engaged! Part 2
Keep them Engaged! Part 2
Wednesday Web Tool: Keep them Engaged!
Wednesday Web Tool: Keep them Engaged!
Looking for something to do with your students to keep them engaged for the last few days of school!? This week's blog posts w...
Wednesday Web Tool: Use Kahoot to Create Online Quizzes and Polls across platforms!
Wednesday Web Tool: Use Kahoot to Create Online Quizzes and Polls across platforms!
I am very excited to share this week's FREE web tool that allows you to create interactive quizzes and polls for your students to take ...
Thoughts for the first day!
Thoughts for the first day!
6 Practices for Creating a 21st Century Engaging Classroom Re -Posted from http://the21stcenturyprincipal.blogspot.com/ “Teachers wh...
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Showing posts with label engagement. Show all posts
Friday, June 2, 2017
Keep them Engaged! Part 2
Tip #3- Allow your students to Read Aloud BOOKS!
Check out Destiny Discover, Storyline Online, Epic!, StoryTime Online, and Just Books Read Aloud
Tip #4- Let them BREAKOUT of an already made
Digital BreakOut box!
Wednesday, May 31, 2017
Wednesday Web Tool: Keep them Engaged!
Looking for something to do with your students to keep them engaged for the last few days of school!?
This week's blog posts will offer educational tips to keep your students engrossed in learning until that last day!
Tip #1- Allow your students to check out educational videos on
Friendly Reminder: You may not show movies in your classroom without Administrators approval and those movies must have Public Performance Rights. See your media specialist for any questions.
Tip #2- Let them explore and research something that want to learn more about on NC WISE OWL
Wednesday, November 6, 2013
Wednesday Web Tool: Use Kahoot to Create Online Quizzes and Polls across platforms!
I am very excited to share this week's FREE web tool that allows you to create interactive quizzes and polls for your students to take using any internet enabled device in your classroom!
To get started, you will need to create a free teacher account at: www.getkahoot.com
Your homepage will look like this when you sign-in:
To create a new quiz, just select the create new Kahoot quiz option and you will be able to add your questions.
The interface is very simple, you enter your question, add an image or video from YouTube, and then enter the answer choices along the bottom. You then mark which choice is correct. You can add or take away answer choices by using the minus button.
Once you are finished with your first question, you can click the white "+ add question" button to create another question.
Once you have the desired number of questions, click on the green "next settings" button.
You can edit the title or order of your quiz questions. Click on the green "next settings" button to continue.
You will be asked to select the language, privacy, and audience of your quiz. You can choose to make your quiz public if you would like people to be able to search for your quizzes. Click on the green button to continue.
Finally, you can now add a cover image to your quiz if you desire. Click on the green button to continue.
Now that you have made a quiz, you can preview it to see what it will look like:
The left side represents what will be seen on your classroom display and the right side shows you what the students will see on their device. As you can tell, you will need a projector or SMART Board to show the question screen to the students and they will respond to the question using their device. If you do not have enough devices for each student, think about using teams or groups to answer questions.
Ready to launch?
Go to your homepage and find the Kahoot you have created and click play:
This will start the launch screen which will give you some options for gameplay:
Click on "Launch" and you will see this screen:
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Your students will need to open their internet browser and type: kahoot.it (no www or http)
Then, they enter the game pin number and their name on their device.
Players will show up on the teachers screen. Once all desired players have entered the game, click "Play" to start the quiz.
Each question will be controlled by the teacher, you will need to click on the next question to continue the quiz. Students will receive immediate feedback and a score for their answers. A scoreboard will also show after each question who is in the lead.
At the end of the quiz, you will see a final scoreboard. You can click on download results to open an excel spreadsheet with data for each question and each student to show results and grades. You can also play the quiz again or a different quiz.
The excel spreadsheet looks similar to this:
Kahoot also has a library of quizzes and polls that other users have created. Click on the Public icon on the top of the homepage to view over two-thousand Kahoots ready to be played.
I hope you explore this exciting and free web tool. Your students will love to take quizzes and you will have instant data to share with them and give feedback.
Questions or comments?
Please email me at: pamelabatchelor@johnston.k12.nc.us
Monday, August 26, 2013
Thoughts for the first day!
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Re -Posted from http://the21stcenturyprincipal.blogspot.com/
“Teachers who are willing to experiment and take risks on behalf of kids are in a much better position, regardless of their age, to meet their students where they are, and my experience is that students appreciate the effort.” Ron Nash,From Seatwork to Feetwork: Engaging Students in Their Own LearningA new school year is upon us, and the decisions we are making now as educational leaders and classroom teachers will determine whether our students are engaged learners, or are passive learners. In other words, our decisions now will determine whether education is something we do to our students or whether education is something into which we actively engage them. The time for "Planning for Student Engagement" is now. As you and your teachers ponder questions like:
1. Rearrange your classroom to facilitate collaboration and cooperation, not conformity and standardized learning. How a classroom is arranged communicates to students what they are expected to do. It screams loudly to them if desks are arranged in rows in front of teacher’s desk, “I am the teacher, the imparter of all knowledge and wisdom, and you are my students, the receptacles of all my knowledge.” Take the time before school starts to really ponder your classroom arrangement. If you want student interaction and student-driven learning, you may want to move your teacher desk out into the hall (Just kidding. I know the fire marshal would have a fit). With your classroom arrangement, purposefully create places for collaboration and talk. 2. Change your mindset from “curriculum or content coverage” to a mindset that engages students in in-depth, relevant learning. In a test-driven school culture, it is easier to “cover content” rather than really examine what you are asking students to do and have them actively engage that content. Covering content means just that, and fosters a teaching attitude that says, "Well, I taught it; it's the kids responsibility to learn it." The trouble with that thinking is clear: no, you didn't really teach it. You covered it. Engaging students in content deeply means teaching that asks students to apply that content in some deep and meaningful way. The old factory maxim that puts students in the role of recipients of knowledge rarely is engaging anymore. Take on the mindset of engaging students in learning not covering content standards. 3. Take instructional risks this year. Don’t sacrifice creativity and innovation to obtain orderliness and conformity. Instructional risks, as Ron Nash aptly points out, are really appreciated by students. They are excited when teachers try new ways of teaching and learning, and teachers who try new ways of instruction are excited too. Recharge your classroom and your students by trying instructional methodology and pedagogy you haven’t done before. It will re-energize your teaching and your classrooms. 4. Accept that real student engagement and student learning is most often messy and chaotic. Places where students are actually engage in learning are often noisy places. At first glance, these chaotic and messy classrooms and schools don’t appear to foster true learning, especially if you view them through the lens of 20th century, factory-model education system. Laughter and loud talking are not necessarily a sign of off task behavior. Students who are engaged make a lot of noise. Don’t dampen their excitement by insisting on silence or sitting in seats. Let the messiness of true student engagement begin on the first day. Embrace the chaos and messy nature of student engagement. 5. Choose your tech tools wisely. Choose the tools that get students engaged in the learning you want them to engage in. Using technology because it allows students to engage content in new and novel and effective ways means you look for the tools that fit the kinds of learning you want students to do. Having students “Do PowerPoints” is often not an engaging activity by itself anymore, and having to sit through someone flitting through slides in monologue is even less so. Choose your tech with a eye to risk and to what you want your students to do with that tech. 6. Pay attention to relationships. Students behave better for teachers that care about them, period. They are more engaged in the learning and are more involved in classroom activities. Teachers who focus on relationships with students "teach students not math, or science, or social studies." Take some time this year to build solid relationships with your students. Doing so creates a climate of safety where risk-taking and mistake-making are acceptable. As you plan out your school year, there are decisions that will greatly have an affect on whether your classrooms are places of engagement or places of boredom and passive learning. Perhaps these six classroom practices will help you transform your classroom into true 21st century classrooms where student engagement is the rule. |
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