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50 Strategies to Boost Cognitive Engagement

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50 Strategies to Boost Cognitive Engagement

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The higher the critical thinking task, the higher the engagement.

If you want more engagement, we need to increase the thinking level, otherwise the students will actively participate in activities that don't push their thinking.

Strategies that include movement, collaboration, and media literacy increase engagement and critical thinking.

These are important because they help us intentionally plan more engaging lessons.

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50 Strategies to Boost Cognitive Engagement 

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50 Strategies to Boost Cognitive Engagement 

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We agree that collaboration, movement, and media literacy increase student engagement and critical thinking. Our Learning Model helps us think about that all the time.

We don't disagree with the book...yet.

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50 Strategies to Boost Cognitive Engagement

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50 Strategies to Boost Cognitive Engagement

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I've gained a new strategy for summarizing called a 4-2-1. The idea is to list the 4 big ideas from a lesson/reading/video/etc. Then the student uses those for ideas to create the 2 most important ideas and then final combines those to create the 1 most important idea. It's been successful thus far with students.

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This book is mostly strategies to implement (which is why I chose it) so not a lot to agree or disagree with. Obviously some strategies are going to work better than others or work better with my teaching style/content than others.

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So far, so good. I've had some successes and ideas that I want to carry forward. I'm excited to hopefully find a few more resources that I can use out of the book.

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This has been a good reminder of what is needed to interact with and teach students, relationships are VITAL for a successful classroom.

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The four teacher types - Intentionally Uninviting, Unintentionally Uninviting, Unintentionally inviting and Intentionally inviting. We know we all fall into all of these categories, but we also know that we should all strive to be the intentionally inviting teacher. Building relationships deeper than just content is important and when we come to work prepared to teach and support students we come prepared to be our best self.

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Something we have learned is that behavior has to constantly be taught and retaught. Students also need to be taught how to focus. Start with small sections of time to focus. Teach them the steps of how to work and how to focus to help guide them through their work. We as adults, struggle with the same things but we have better control with getting ourselves back on track. While kids need to be taught how.

This is important because we need to remember to slow down and take the steps in showing them how to be successful to get positive results.

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REALLY getting to know students by name and interest and then incorporating some of those interests into class. There is also a suggestion to do an activity similar to our DOT activity in regards to relationships with teachers and students (might be good to do this again and intentionally work to reach students). This book also mentions the importance of attending extra curricular activities to show students support outside of school hours. Building relationships is a large part of effective classrooms, but we have to have engaging content too. Relationships alone are not always enough to stop behavior in the class, we need to make sure our learning targets are relevant and meaningful as well as what and how we teach them.

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Something we all agree with strongly is that all students need to be taught how to behave. Also that it is normal and necessary to reteach the behavior that we want to see out of the students. While we all have different expectations, behavior is behavior. If we all took energy to continue to teach proper behavior, students can be successful. Not everyone knows what good behavior is from home. It becomes our job to teach this to them.

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This book does a nice job reminding us that not all kids have the ability to learn, behave, and work like everyone else. He is constantly reminding us that our reteaching of these skills though differentiation is what will help these students be successful.

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Paying attention to our teaching habits that exist and to make a conscious effort to notice things about them that effect classroom management. It's important to document what expectations you're trying to implement into your classroom.

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Acknowledging students who are completing their expected work during the given time.

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Planning & Teaching in the Standards Based Classroom

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Planning & Teaching in the Standards Based Classroom

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We have learned about using proficiency scales to create solid year long unit plans.  It is important for consistency in courses, transparency for student and parents, and have key insights into what a standard is, how to teach it, and provide clarity for all.  It also helps to create effective rubrics in student friendly language.

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Planning & Teaching in the Standards Based Classroom

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Planning & Teaching in the Standards Based Classroom

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We strongly agree that we need priority standards in order to clarify what supporting standards are in your course. Another thing we strongly agree about is the first step in creating longevity in your courses consistency is beginning with effective proficiency scales.

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Planning & Teaching in the Standards Based Classroom

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Planning & Teaching in the Standards Based Classroom

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If you are struggling to understand the purpose of the course or what we are doing in the class, our book is exactly what we are doing in this class and supports our P.D. well. It's a great 2-for-1!