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1. Use motivating activities

Rotate toys and materials to increase novelty and exposure to new items, materials and concepts

Incorporate preferred interests within classroom activities; for example, teach math using Legos, incorporate train stories during circle time, or create learning units that involve special interest areas

Incorporate preferred interests within social activities to promote interaction

Offer choices throughout the day

2. Structure the classroom environment

Use pictures and visuals during activities to increase student understanding and participation

Mini schedules of activities can keep students on task

Keep interesting items in sight, but out of reach, this will encourage students to seek out adults to request items

Create well-designed spaces so that students know where to be and what to do in each area

3. Involve peers in activities

Set up interesting and meaningful activities where peers work together on clear and common goals

Intentionally train all students to use visual supports, mini schedules, and strategies to help each other stay on task

4. Provide many learning opportunities within activities

Embed learning opportunities into all activities, which includes an opportunity for students to actively respond and a follow up with acknowledgment of a correct response or prompting to successfully respond

Follow through - if the student doesn't respond when an instruction is given, prompt them to success

Differentiate instruction so that students receive learning opportunities that are targeted to their level

5. Schedule for engagement

Establish classroom routines and systems so students know what to expect and can respond independently

Alternate between movement and sitting activities

Explicitly teach students the skills of waiting and transition

Although universal supports will benefit many students, it may be necessary to observe individual students to determine what is interfering with engagement.
Example 1
Eli struggles to stay on task during small group centers. The teacher notices he does not understand the expectations and has trouble completing multiple steps. Based on this observation, the teacher creates mini schedules for the activities and teaches the peers and Eli how to use them. The group all uses the mini schedules and the peers help remind Eli to mark the steps as he completes them.
Example 2
Aliana is often distracted and not attending during group story time. The teacher has a second copy of the book and pairs Aliana with two peers to look at the story together as the teacher reads. After adding this additional support, the teacher notices that Aliana is able to be more engaged and she decides to use the strategy for another student who has similar struggles.

Finally, consider collecting Classroom Engagement Data to assess the general level of engagement for students in the classroom. This data can help you determine if specific children are less engaged, and whether there are whole group patterns of engagement that might warrant changes to classroom routines or activities.

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When student engagement is going downhill, we often find ourselves reaching for the prop box.

We pull out random videos, time-sucking resources, overly complex activities... anything to get and keep attention. But even these can't compete with our students' pen tricks, doodling, and discussions of what happened at recess. And there's a simple reason why:

Our students aren't engaged by things. They're engaged by us. That's why the best (and easiest) ways to increase student engagement come from you.

We compiled 20 essential strategies that generate lasting engagement, without the flashy props and hours of post-school prep.

Let the countdown begin!

20. Connect learning to the real world

We've all heard it before: "When am I ever going to use this?" Answer this question and you'll engage students with content that they know is relevant to life beyond school. Use anecdotes, case studies, and real-life examples from outside the classroom to root your teaching in "the real world".

19. Engage with your students' interests

Find out what already engages your students and build it into the learning process.

Using mathematics as an example, you could have students chart their performance in a video game over the week. You might even get your budding social media influencers to calculate a projected number of Instagram followers.

Learning what excites your students does more than just engage them. You'll build strong relationships and rapport, too.

18. Fill "dead time"

"Dead time" is any point in a lesson where students are left without something to do. You might be handing out a worksheet, getting a presentation set up, or waiting interminably for a YouTube video to load. These are brief windows that leave just enough time for students to tune out, after which time it can be very difficult to get them back.

Fill these blank spaces with low-order activities to hold students' attention. These should be quick, easy, and require minimal follow-up. For example:

Think Pair Share: students reflect on something, discuss with a partner, and then share with the rest of the class once everyone is ready

Quickwrite: write down three questions or points that have been raised by the lesson so far

What I know already: if you're just about to dive into new content, ask students to identify three things they already know about the subject and jot them down as bullet points.

17. Use group work and collaboration

Collaborating with small groups gives students a welcome break from solo bookwork. They'll benefit from each other's perspectives and the ability to express their ideas.

Use your judgment and knowledge of who works well together when organizing group work. Engineering the groups might avoid troublesome partnerships, while allowing students to work with friends might generate the buzz you need for more productive activity.

16. Encourage students to present and share work regularly

Giving students a regular opportunity to share their thoughts and demonstrate learning in front of their peers drives engagement in two ways:

it makes students accountable

it lets them hear from someone other than their teacher.

If your students quiver in fear at the thought of speaking in front of the class, combine presentations with group work. A few ideas:

Have students present in groups after a group task.

Let students share each other's work within smaller groups before asking them to choose one piece to share with the rest of the class.

Let students read or present their work while sitting down. It avoids the pressure of having to "stand and deliver".

Ask for one contribution from each group after discussion, with each group nominating a "spokesperson".

Above all else, make presenting and sharing a regular part of class activity. Your class will become an equitable and engaging space that echoes with the voice of every student, not just your own!

15. Give your students a say

If you don't know how to engage your students, let them tell you! Give your students a say in classroom activity by:

providing a choice of different activities (e.g. group work or solo)

seeking student input for assessment design (e.g. students can choose a final product, provided it meets the criteria)

periodic check-ins to monitor the pace of delivery (e.g. "do we need to go over this a bit more slowly or are we feeling pretty confident?").

Giving students a choice also fosters their sense of ownership over their learning. They'll move from passive consumers to active learners with a stake in classroom activity.

14. Use mixed media

Present learning content in a variety of mediums, including video, audio, and digital resources. Using such tech-rich resources is engaging for two reasons. It's a welcome change from the stacks of paper our students are usually saddled with, and it establishes a direct and relevant connection with the digital world they inhabit.

13. Get your students moving

If your students struggle to sit still for an entire lesson, get them moving. All that pent-up energy can be channelled into a learning activity that puts them on their feet. Try the following.

Have students come to the front and brainstorm together on the whiteboard.

Have students rotate through different stations around the room over the course of an activity.

Have students split into groups or arrange themselves in different areas of the room.

Take a stand: have students move to a particular area of the room to indicate their thoughts on an issue (e.g. "everyone who thinks x, move to the right side of the room; if you think y, stand on the left").

Movement works equally well to engage sluggish or weary students. A quick bit of physical activity will leave them more alert for the next phase of learning.

12. Read the room

If you're steadily losing students to doodling, off-topic chatter, and the pervasive "need to tear and ball up little pieces of paper", it's time to shake things up.

Cut the activity short if it's dragging, clarify instructions if there's confusion, or switch to a more student-centered activity for greater engagement.

Remember: it's impossible to have every student engaged 100% of the time. The next best thing we can do is to notice disengagement and respond to it quickly.

11. Scaffold tasks with checkpoints

If you dump all your instructions on students at the start of a lesson before turning them loose with an activity, confusion and disengagement will likely follow.

That's why it's important to scaffold larger tasks by breaking them into achievable steps. Each of these can be separated by brief "checkpoints" of instruction reorienting students and reminding them of what needs to be done next. They also serve as a periodic call to attention when students are liable to go off track.

10. Focus on discovery and inquiry

Sometimes the best thing you can do for engagement is to get out of your students' way.

Let them discover learning for themselves without being spoon-fed. They'll exercise critical and creative thinking, and pursue the lines of inquiry that interest them.

This doesn't mean you should retreat behind the teacher's desk. Observe your students, listen to them, and talk to them about what they're thinking. Be their guide as opposed to their instructor.

9. Ask good questions

Ask good questions of your students and you'll drive rich, engaging discussions that are open to everyone.

Good questions should be:

open-ended: to avoid "yes/no" answers

equitable: open to answers of varying depth and complexity

legitimate: asked because you want to hear students' thoughts and opinions, not because you're fishing for a correct answer.

When students answer a question, engage with their response. Even if it's incorrect or misinformed, recognize their effort and use it to refine the question further (e.g. "you're on the right track, but could we also think about...").

8. Allow for think time

It's gratifying to see hands shoot up as soon as you ask a question, but letting your students think it over has two benefits. It leads to more considered responses that drive engaging discussions, and it also makes the conversation accessible to those who don't have an instant answer.

After you ask a question, insist on a twenty-second pause and give students an opportunity to extend their standard responses further. For example, you might ask "See if you can explain how you came to your answer, too". You'll receive better answers and start to notice some new hands going up.

7. Shake things up

Predictability is safe, but it can get boring. Mix up your staple teaching strategies with new and novel activities from time to time. Talk to other teachers for ideas. In addition to engagement, you'll also be giving your students an example of what it means to take a risk and try something new.

Experimenting with some new parts of the teacher toolkit also makes it easier to differentiate your instruction. A new activity or delivery method might be the trick to engaging that student who has been a tough nut to crack all year.

6. Give brain breaks

Periodically give students a breather with brain breaks. These are short activities that allow students to stretch their legs before returning to work feeling focused. You can find a list of 20 brain breaks at Mind Bloom.

Meritopia in Mathletics is gamified learning at its best and keeps students engaged! When students earn enough points in Mathletics, they get the perfect brain break in Meritopia by discovering new lands and unlocking characters.

5. Be personable

Relationships and rapport are pillars of lasting engagement, and you can't have either without being personable. This means getting to know your students and letting them get to know you.

While enthusiasm for the learning content might ebb and flow, your smile, laughter, and conversation will engage students every time they walk through your classroom door.

4. Encourage friendly competition

Use in-class games, quizzes, or gamified learning programs to engage students with friendly competition. For example, Live Mathletics (a feature in Mathletics) allows students to test their mathematical skills by competing in 60-second quizzes against peers in their class or around the globe in real time.

"Friendly" is the keyword here. Make sure competitive activities are low stakes and put the emphasis on learning instead of winning.

3. Start lessons with introductory hooks

Engage students from the outset of your lesson with an introductory hook. This could be anything that piques interest, establishes relevance, or inspires curiosity in the subject of the lesson, for example:

a personal anecdote connected to the subject

a brain teaser or challenge question

a historical example

a multimedia source.

Keep your hooks short and segue them directly into an overview of the learning goal. It's an effective opening that engages while setting students up for the main instructional component.

2. Laugh together

Weaving humour throughout your lesson lightens the mood and makes for a more fun experience. Laugh with your students, and don't be afraid to let them laugh at you from time to time!

1. Gamify learning

Games are the most powerful source of engagement for students outside of class, and they're equally effective at driving engagement in learning. Transform activities into games by including levels of difficulty, rewards, and competitive elements. You can read more about gamifying learning here.

You don't have to invest hours in creating rules and drawing up game boards, either. Gamified learning programs can do the work for you. The learning programs in the 3P suite, for example, provide a host of student-friendly games for mathematics, literacy, and science. All you have to do is select the appropriate curriculum and grant your students access.

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How do you use the different types of assessment in your classroom to promote student learning?

School closures and remote or hybrid learning environments have posed some challenges for educators, but motivating students to learn and grow remains a constant goal.

Some students have lost a portion of their academic progress. Assessing students in meaningful ways can help motivate and empower them to grow as they become agents of their own learning.

But testing can contribute to math anxiety for many students. Assessments can be difficult to structure properly and time-consuming to grade. And as a teacher, you know that student progress isn't just a number on a report card.

There's so much more to assessments than delivering an end-of-unit exam or prepping for a standardized test. Assessments help shape the learning process at all points, and give you insights into student learning. As John Hattie, a professor of education and the director of the Melbourne Education Research Institute at the University of Melbourne, Australia puts it:

Six types of assessments are:

Diagnostic assessments

Formative assessments

Summative assessments

Ipsative assessments

Norm-referenced assessments

Criterion-referenced assessments

Let's find out how assessments can analyze, support and further learning.

What's the purpose of different types of assessment?

Different types of assessments can help you understand student progress in various ways. This understanding can inform the teaching strategies you use, and may lead to different adaptations.

In your classroom, assessments generally have one of three purposes:

1. Assessment of learning

2. Assessment for learning

3. Assessment as learning

Assessment of learning

You can use assessments to help identify if students are meeting grade-level standards.

Assessments of learning are usually grade-based, and can include:

Exams

Portfolios

Final projects

Standardized tests

They often have a concrete grade attached to them that communicates student achievement to teachers, parents, students, school-level administrators and district leaders.

Common types of assessment of learning include:

Summative assessments

Norm-referenced assessments

Criterion-referenced assessments

Assessment for learning

Assessments for learning provide you with a clear snapshot of student learning and understanding as you teach -- allowing you to adjust everything from your classroom management strategies to your lesson plans as you go.

Assessments for learning should always be ongoing and actionable. When you're creating assessments, keep these key questions in mind:

What do students still need to know?

What did students take away from the lesson?

Did students find this lesson too easy? Too difficult?

Did my teaching strategies reach students effectively?

What are students most commonly misunderstanding?

What did I most want students to learn from this lesson? Did I succeed?

There are lots of ways you can deliver assessments for learning, even in a busy classroom. We'll cover some of them soon!

For now, just remember these assessments aren't only for students -- they're to provide you with actionable feedback to improve your instruction.

Common types of assessment for learning include formative assessments and diagnostic assessments.

Assessment as learning

Assessment as learning actively involves students in the learning process. It teaches critical thinking skills, problem-solving and encourages students to set achievable goals for themselves and objectively measure their progress.

They can help engage students in the learning process, too! One study "showed that in most cases the students pointed out the target knowledge as the reason for a task to be interesting and engaging, followed by the way the content was dealt with in the classroom."

Another found:

Douglas B. McLeod

Some examples of assessment as learning include ipsative assessments, self-assessments and peer assessments.

6 Types of assessment to use in your classroom

There's a time and place for every type of assessment. Keep reading to find creative ways of delivering assessments and understanding your students' learning process!

1. Diagnostic assessment

Let's say you're starting a lesson on two-digit multiplication. To make sure the unit goes smoothly, you want to know if your students have mastered fact families, place value and one-digit multiplication before you move on to more complicated questions.

When you structure diagnostic assessments around your lesson, you'll get the information you need to understand student knowledge and engage your whole classroom.

Some examples to try include:

Short quizzes

Journal entries

Student interviews

Student reflections

Classroom discussions

Graphic organizers (e.g., mind maps, flow charts, KWL charts)

Diagnostic assessments can also help benchmark student progress. Consider giving the same assessment at the end of the unit so students can see how far they've come!

Using Prodigy for diagnostic assessments

One unique way of delivering diagnostic assessments is to use a game-based learning platform that engages your students.

Prodigy's assessments tool helps you align the math questions your students see in-game with the lessons you want to cover.

To set up a diagnostic assessment, use your assessments tool to create a Plan that guides students through a skill. This adaptive assessment will support students with pre-requisites when they need additional guidance.

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In other words, meaningful learning is like a puzzle - having the pieces is one thing, but knowing how to put it together becomes an engaging process that helps solidify learning.

Formative assessments help you track how student knowledge is growing and changing in your classroom in real-time. While it requires a bit of a time investment - especially at first - the gains are more than worth it.

A March 2020 study found that providing formal formative assessment evidence such as written feedback and quizzes within or between instructional units helped enhance the effectiveness of formative assessments.

Some examples of formative assessments include:

Portfolios

Group projects

Progress reports

Class discussions

Entry and exit tickets

Short, regular quizzes

Virtual classroom tools like Socrative or Kahoot!

When running formative assessments in your classroom, it's best to keep them short, easy to grade and consistent. Introducing students to formative assessments in a low-stakes way can help you benchmark their progress and reduce math anxiety.
Find more engaging formative assessment ideas here!
How Prodigy helps you deliver formative assessments

Prodigy makes it easy to create, deliver and grade formative assessments that help keep your students engaged with the learning process and provide you with actionable data to adjust your lesson plans.

Use your Prodigy teacher dashboard to create an Assignment and make formative assessments easy!

Assignments assess your students on a particular skill with a set number of questions and can be differentiated for individual students or groups of students.

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3. Summative assessment

Summative assessments measure student progress as an assessment of learning. Standardized tests are a type of summative assessment and provide data for you, school leaders and district leaders.

They can assist with communicating student progress, but they don't always give clear feedback on the learning process and can foster a "teach to the test" mindset if you're not careful.

Plus, they're stressful for teachers. One Harvard survey found 60% of teachers said "preparing students to pass mandated standardized tests" "dictates most of" or "substantially affects" their teaching.

Sound familiar?

But just because it's a summative assessment, doesn't mean it can't be engaging for students and useful for your teaching. Try creating assessments that deviate from the standard multiple-choice test, like:

Recording a podcast

Writing a script for a short play

Producing an independent study project

No matter what type of summative assessment you give your students, keep some best practices in mind:

Keep it real-world relevant where you can

Make questions clear and instructions easy to follow

Give a rubric so students know what's expected of them

Create your final test after, not before, teaching the lesson

Try blind grading: don't look at the name on the assignment before you mark it

Use these summative assessment examples to make them effective and fun for your students!
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4. Ipsative assessments

How many of your students get a bad grade on a test and get so discouraged they stop trying?

Ipsative assessments are one of the types of assessment as learning that compares previous results with a second try, motivating students to set goals and improve their skills.

When a student hands in a piece of creative writing, it's just the first draft. They practice athletic skills and musical talents to improve, but don't always get the same chance when it comes to other subjects like math.

A two-stage assessment framework helps students learn from their mistakes and motivates them to do better. Plus, it removes the instant gratification of goals and teaches students learning is a process.

You can incorporate ipsative assessments into your classroom with:

One study on ipsative learning techniques found that when it was used with higher education distance learners, it helped motivate students and encouraged them to act on feedback to improve their grades.

In Gwyneth Hughes' book, Ipsative Assessment: Motivation Through Marking Progress, she writes: "Not all learners can be top performers, but all learners can potentially make progress and achieve a personal best. Putting the focus onto learning rather than meeting standards and criteria can also be resource efficient."

While educators might use this type of assessment during pre- and post-test results, they can also use it in reading instruction. Depending on your school's policy, for example, you can record a student reading a book and discussing its contents. Then, at another point in the year, repeat this process. Next, listen to the recordings together and discuss their reading improvements.

What could it look like in your classroom?

5. Norm-referenced assessments

Norm-referenced assessments are tests designed to compare an individual to a group of their peers, usually based on national standards and occasionally adjusted for age, ethnicity or other demographics.

Unlike ipsative assessments, where the student is only competing against themselves, norm-referenced assessments draw from a wide range of data points to make conclusions about student achievement.

Types of norm-referenced assessments include:

IQ tests

Physical assessments

Standardized college admissions tests like the SAT and GRE

Proponents of norm-referenced assessments point out that they accentuate differences among test-takers and make it easy to analyze large-scale trends. Critics argue they don't encourage complex thinking and can inadvertently discriminate against low-income students and minorities.

Norm-referenced assessments are most useful when measuring student achievement to determine:

Language ability

Grade readiness

Physical development

College admission decisions

Need for additional learning support

While they're not usually the type of assessment you deliver in your classroom, chances are you have access to data from past tests that can give you valuable insights into student performance.

6. Criterion-referenced assessments

Criterion-referenced assessments compare the score of an individual student to a learning standard and performance level, independent of other students around them.

In the classroom, this means measuring student performance against grade-level standards and can include end-of-unit or final tests to assess student understanding.

Outside of the classroom, criterion-referenced assessments appear in professional licensing exams, high school exit exams and citizenship tests, where the student must answer a certain percentage of questions correctly to pass.

Criterion-referenced assessments are most often compared with norm-referenced assessments. While they're both considered types of assessments of learning, criterion-referenced assessments don't measure students against their peers. Instead, each student is graded to provide insight into their strengths and areas for improvement.

How to create effective assessments

You don't want to use a norm-referenced assessment to figure out where learning gaps in your classroom are, and ipsative assessments aren't the best for giving your principal a high-level overview of student achievement in your classroom.

When it comes to your teaching, here are some best practices to help you identify which type of assessment will work and how to structure it, so you and your students get the information you need.

Make a rubric

Students do their best work when they know what's expected of them and how they'll be marked. Whether you're assigning a cooperative learning project or an independent study unit, a rubric communicates clear success criteria to students and helps teachers maintain consistent grading.

Ideally, your rubric should have a detailed breakdown of all the project's individual parts, what's required of each group member and an explanation of what different levels of achievement look like.

A well-crafted rubric lets multiple teachers grade the same assignment and arrive at the same score. It's an important part of assessments for learning and assessments of learning, and teaches students to take responsibility for the quality of their work.

There are plenty of online rubric tools to help you get started -- try one today!

Ask yourself why you're giving the assessment

While student grades provide a useful picture of achievement and help you communicate progress to school leaders and parents, the ultimate goal of assessments is to improve student learning.

Ask yourself questions like:

What's my plan for the results?

Who's going to use the results, besides me?

What do I want to learn from this assessment?

What's the best way to present the assessment to my students, given what I know about their progress and learning styles?

This helps you effectively prepare students and create an assessment that moves learning forward.

Don't stick with the same types of assessment - mix it up!

End-of-unit assessments are a tried and tested (pun intended) staple in any classroom. But why stop there?

Let's say you're teaching a unit on multiplying fractions. To help you plan your lessons, deliver a diagnostic assessment to find out what students remember from last year. Once you're sure they understand all the prerequisites, you can start teaching your lessons more effectively.

After each math class, deliver short exit tickets to find out what students understand and where they still have questions. If you see students struggling, you can re-teach or deliver intervention in small groups during station rotations.

When you feel students are prepared, an assessment of learning can be given to them. If students do not meet the success criteria, additional support and scaffolding can be provided to help them improve their understanding of the topic. You can foster a growth mindset by reminding students that mistakes are an important part of learning!

Now your students are masters at multiplying fractions! And when standardized testing season rolls around, you know which of your students need additional support - and where.

Build your review based on the data you've collected through diagnostic, formative, summative and ipsative assessments so they perform well on their standardized tests.

Final thoughts about different types of assessment

Remember: learning extends well beyond a single score or assessment!

It's an ongoing process, with plenty of opportunities for students to build a growth mindset and develop new skills.

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The major purpose of assessment in schools should be to provide interpretative information to teachers and school leaders about their impact on students, so that these educators have the best information possible about what steps to take with instruction and how they need to change and adapt. So often we use assessment in schools to inform students of their progress and attainment. Of course this is important, but it is more critical to use this information to inform teachers about their impact on students. Using assessments as feedback for teachers is powerful. And this power is truly maximized when the assessments are timely, informative, and related to what teachers are actually teaching.

Six types of assessments are:

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"Students develop an interest in mathematical tasks that they understand, see as relevant to their own concerns, and can manage. Recent studies of students' emotional responses to mathematics suggest that both their positive and their negative responses diminish as tasks become familiar and increase when tasks are novel"
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"Current research indicates that acquired knowledge is not simply a collection of concepts and procedural skills filed in long-term memory. Rather, the knowledge is structured by individuals in meaningful ways, which grow and change over time."
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We all have a reason we became teachers - a person, a moment, a spark. For me, it started with a love for math that evolved into a calling to share it with students. Teaching has always been rewarding, but let's be real - it's also exhausting. And in today's post-pandemic world, it's harder than ever.

With a national shortage of qualified math teachers and declining student achievement, we can't afford to let burnout win. So how do we bring back the passion?

Rethink Professional Learning. Too often, PD feels irrelevant, one-size-fits-none, or like something done to us , not for us . But it doesn't have to be this way. When done right, professional learning can actually inspire, support, and empower teachers. Here's what that looks like:

What Makes PD Effective?

Purposeful & Personal : Tailor it to teachers' needs, not just the budget.

Relevant : Align it with each teacher's subject, students, and context.

Engaging : Make it active, immersive, and model effective strategies.

Ongoing : Learning doesn't stop after one workshop. Keep the support coming.

Supportive : Provide coaching that's embedded, relational, and responsive.

Reflective : Build in time to pause, process, and plan.

Flexible : Give teachers agency over their goals and growth.

Safe : Create a culture of trust, respect, and shared learning.

Why It Matters Teachers are the single biggest factor in student success - especially in math. Investing in professional learning that's meaningful and motivating isn't just good for teachers. It's good for kids.

Let's give teachers PD that helps them feel energized, equipped, and excited to teach again. If it's not doing that... then what's the point?

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Your dream professional learning experience is coming up, and we're getting your name tag ready! Our collaborative learning sessions, dynamic Power Talks from speakers like Peter Liljedahl, and networking opportunities will make you wonder how you ever survived those stuffy, sit-and-get traditional conferences.And did we mention the luxurious resort locations? Think of The National Institute (TNI) as a summer getaway to rejuvenate your educator mind and soul, with a take-home goody bag packed with ideas, strategies, and inspiration for your district or classroom.

Connection is 🔑 to reaching students. That's why our teammates are on the ground in schools across the country and beyond bringing learning experiences to life! Shout-out to MATHstreamer Robert Ahdoot or bringing the energy to these Brockton Public Schools middle schoolers. 💙 Watch the full video .

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There are so many ways to use the Learning for Justice program that teachers could possibly get overwhelmed. It's best to browse the site and try out one activity at a time, as you gain familiarity with the resources. For professional development, teachers can regularly read the site's blog: Magazine articles and presentations can help improve teachers' overall practice to better meet their students' needs.

For the classroom, teachers can use the ready-made lessons and film kits to implement anti-bias curriculum. For school communities, educators can start Mix It Up activities to break down divisions and promote new relationships between students. The possibilities here are extensive; it could be as little as putting a recommended tip into practice, or as extensive as creating an entire course using the program's lessons. Depending on their classroom and school environments, teachers should tailor their use of the materials to address the specific challenges they face.

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Established by the Southern Poverty Law Center, Learning for Justice is a social justice and activism program for schools. The site itself, primarily aimed at educators, has materials to promote equity and reduce discrimination in schools. Teachers can use the site's classroom resources, professional development materials, and blog, as well as a host of other resources. The site provides film kits and lesson plans on a range of topics, such as school integration, anti-bullying, social justice, and gender equity.

The site's search function uses topic and grade-level filters to help teachers find appropriate lessons for their classes -- many of the materials here are Common Core-aligned. There's also a link to the Teaching Tolerance magazine, which any teacher can receive free of charge. The articles can help teachers further their own understanding of diversity issues, as well as provide tips that can easily be integrated into the classroom. Included on the site is an overview of the program's popular Mix It Up at Lunch activity, including detailed information on how to get started.

Teachers will find the Learning for Justice website full of powerful lessons and activities for the classroom. The program has won numerous awards, and the lessons and activities here are researched as well as school-tested. For anyone looking to improve school climate and help students explore real issues like bullying and discrimination, this is the place to go.

Lessons here go beyond simply teaching content outside the context of personal experience; students are encouraged to find personal meaning in everything they learn. For example, in a lesson titled "Defenders of Justice," students don't just learn about key figures in the civil rights movement, they also discuss how to apply the principles they learn about in their own lives. A variety of similar lessons incorporate different instructional strategies to engage all types of learners. Music, videos, and personal stories help improve accessibility for all, including English language learners and students with special needs. Debates, literature analysis, and data comparisons provide challenge, even for high-achieving students.

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It is important to design your assessment so that it is clearly focused on determining whether your instructional goals, and your student learning objectives, are being met.
Though instructors generally assign students grades at the end of a particular unit, course etc., this type of assessment (called summative assessment) does not provide frequent, informal opportunities to get detailed and specific information on what students are learning. Nor does it provide an opportunity for students to assess their own learning process.
This more immediate feedback (or formative assessment) is what provides information that allows changes to be made during a course.
Broader or summative assessment does not link assessment items with specific objectives. This detailed objective level information is needed to use assessment results for improvement. Grades are summative and broad and usually assign a score to student performance across a set of learning objectives- such as for a unit of instruction or for the course itself-and thus provide little information on whether students attain the specific and distinct learning objectives you have defined.

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The benefits of movement in the classroom aren't limited to younger students. Pairing new words and concepts with gestures or dance moves locks in understanding-and active brain breaks prime students to learn even more.

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Most educators acknowledge that a one-size-fits-all approach to teaching is ineffective, and a more student-centered approach is necessary for student success. Culturally responsive teaching incorporates and centers unique student experiences and identities, supporting educators to build learning partnerships that result in increased student engagement and ownership of learning.

But what exactly is culturally responsive teaching?

Based on Gloria Ladson-Billings' 1994 culturally relevant pedagogy framework, culturally responsive teaching refers to an approach to teaching and learning that facilitates the achievement of all students by recognizing that culture is a powerful force in shaping how we see ourselves and the world around us. In a culturally responsive classroom, reflective teaching and learning occur in a culturally supported, learner-centered context, whereby the strengths students bring to school are identified, nurtured, and utilized to promote student achievement. When students feel seen, heard, and understood, they are more likely to engage in the learning process and achieve success.

Zaretta Hammond, in her book Culturally Responsive Teaching and the Brain, defines Culturally Responsive Teaching as "an educator's ability to recognize students' cultural displays of learning and meaning making and respond positively and constructively with teaching moves that use cultural knowledge as a scaffold to connect what the students know to new concepts and content in order to promote effective information processing. All the while, the educator understands the importance of being in relationship and having a social-emotional connection to the student in order to create a safe space for learning."

Components of Culturally Responsive Teaching

In Beyond Flesh-Colored Crayons: The Four Components of Culturally Relevant Pedagogy , Hammond lists the four key components for culturally responsive pedagogy as follows:

1. Affirmation - I recognize and accept you as you are. I understand and nurture your multiple identities and none of these aspects of you are in conflict to me.

2. Validation - Validate students' experience of the world by acknowledging the socio-political context we live in. Teach the truth about power, politics, history, and context in developmentally appropriate ways, and use these issues as tools of instruction and discourse.

3. Cognition - Use students' culture as a reference point for helping them understand concepts. This is where learning theory, neuroscience and culturally responsive teaching all meet up.

4. Processing - Help students "hold on to it." Learn about the neuroscience of information processing to support students in internalizing content to the level of automaticity. Call and response, music, movement, and storytelling are all culturally relevant ways to create neural pathways.

What Culturally Responsive Teaching IS / IS NOT

Culturally responsive teaching is:

a bridge between home and school life,

affirming of students' history and culture, and

centering student voices and learning styles in all lessons and classroom experiences.

Culturally responsive teaching is not:

confusing race and culture as being the same thing,

only about motivating students of color,

relying on a single method to engage students within the lesson,

mastering the details of every culture, and

just adding Black (or other groups') history to the curriculum.

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As you settle into a new year in your classroom, what are some things you can do to support your students, both emotionally and academically? Today we're bringing you 10 guiding principles to keep in mind, in the form of insightful quotes from some of our expert authors. From celebrating student strengths to providing trauma-informed feedback, these guidelines will help you meet the needs of all students in an inclusive classroom as the year unfolds.

Celebrate each student's strengths and talents.

Taken from the acclaimed new guidebook Reimagining Special Education by Jenna M. Rufo & Julie Causton, this quote is a good reminder of how recognizing each student's strengths can help you create learning experiences that make the most of these gifts. (See this post on the Brookes blog for some quick tips on how to reframe "weaknesses" as strengths and needs.)

Teach with awareness of and sensitivity to trauma.

As the pandemic continues to upend lives across the country and around the world, addressing student (and staff) trauma will be an essential priority. Get clear, neuroscience-based information on the impact of trauma in this post from Dyane Carrere, author of The Re-Set Process. And see this post adapted from Jen Alexander's work for 11 tips on building a more trauma-sensitive classroom.

Provide a safe space for talking and listening.

In this era of stress, anxiety, and uncertainty, it's never been more important to give students a space where they feel comfortable talking and assured that you're listening. (Quote taken from Teaching Everyone, a thorough introduction to inclusive education by Whitney H. Rapp & Katrina L. Arndt.)

Give students freedom to make mistakes.

Making mistakes is essential to the learning process, as this quote from the book Dyslexia, Dysgraphia, OWL LD, and Dyscalculia reminds us. Remind your students frequently of the value of productive struggle and learning from errors. Students who feel free to make mistakes without being reprimanded or shamed will be more engaged and active learners.

Make the most of your partnership with paraprofessionals.

Paraprofessionals are an integral part of a school's inclusive team, helping to determine "how students with disabilities might access and respond to supports." (Quote from The Paraprofessional's Handbook for Effective Support in Inclusive Classrooms, Second Edition, by Julie Causton & Kate MacLeod.) Here are 38 teamwork-building questions that paraprofessionals and other educators can use together to strengthen their partnership. And if the pandemic leads to more school closures in 2022, Julie Causton and Kristie Pretti-Frontczak have some great suggestions on how paras can provide the best and most helpful supports during virtual instruction.

Carve out more time to collaborate.

During a global pandemic, it's easy to feel like you're just getting by day to day and barely hanging in there. Sharing ideas with other teachers can help you problem-solve, brainstorm new approaches, or just feel less alone when burnout starts to set in. If you need some ideas on how to come together more consistently, check out this blog post: 10 Ways Your School Team Can Carve Out More Time to Meet and Communicate. (Quote taken from the new book Student-Focused Coaching by Jan Hasbrouck & Daryl Michel.)

Help students make personal connections with the curriculum.

As this quote articulates, helping students make personal connections to your curriculum is a good way to boost engagement and make all children feel welcome and safe in the classroom. (From Comprehensive Literacy for All by Karen Erickson & David Koppenhaver.) See this post for some ideas on how to make lessons relevant to students' real lives: 7 Things Inclusive High School Teachers Should Do

Encourage different types of participation.

Successful participation in lessons and social interactions will look different for different students. Respect each child's unique strengths and needs, and offer a wide variety of ways for students to participate in class and in social activities. (Quote from "You're Going to Love this Kid!", Second Edition, by Paula Kluth. Get 6 free printable tip sheets on inclusion from Paula Kluth here.)

Give students more chances to engage and respond.

Students are more engaged in class when that have more chances and more ways to respond. Use methods like question prompts, choral responding, response cards, and clickers to encourage more responses and help your students stay actively engaged in learning. (Quote from Learning Disabilities and Challenging Behaviors, Third Edition, by Nancy Mather, Sam Goldstein, and Katie Eklund.)

Provide regular feedback-both corrective and affirmative.

This quote is a good reminder that useful feedback is "essential to efficient and accurate learning." (Quote from Fundamentals of Literacy Instruction & Assessment, Pre-K-6, Second Edition, edited by Martha C. Hougen, Ph.D., & Susan M. Smartt, with invited contributors.) Providing students with sensitive feedback about their behavior is just as important as offering input on their academic performance; see this post for some important recommendations: 8 Tips for Trauma-Informed Behavioral Feedback.
What are some things you've been keeping in mind for the new year? Do you have any new classroom strategies you're trying this year? Tell us in the comments below!

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