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Multiple ideas for OTRS.

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LPS LPS Student Supports | Student Engagement and Opportunities to Respond

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Lincoln Public Schools is the second largest public school district in Nebraska, located in the heart of the plains, renowned for its long-standing legacy of educational excellence and tradition of rigorous academic achievement.

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Ideas for whole group responses

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Quick reference guide

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Make it this one please.

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Key Idea: In order to make engaged participation the expectation, call on students regardless of whether they have raised their hands.

" How can I adapt my decisions about which students I call on to help all my students pay better attention?"

4 Benefits to Cold Calling:

1. Allows you to check for understanding effectively and systematically at any time whether the student is offering to tell you.
2. Increases speed in both terms of your pacing and the rate at which you can cover material. No more waiting for students to offer up a response. Keep them on their toes and ready to answer at anytime.
3. Allows you to distribute work more broadly around the room and signal to students not only that are likely to be called on to participate, and therefore that they should engage in the work of the classroom.
4. Helps to distribute work around the room not only to those who always raise their hands, but as an authority to reach out to individual students whom need to be more engaged.

Key Principles to Cold Calling: Predictable, Systematic, Positive, and Scaffolded.

-Predictable- If you use Cold Calling a few minutes each and everyday, students will come to expect it and change their behavior in advance by paying attention and readying themselves mentally.
-Systematic- Questions come at students quickly, clearly, and calmly, in clusters directed to multiple students, in multiple locations around the room, rather than focused on a single student or a group of students in isolation.
-Positive- Students do not volunteer because they do not think they can answer, but when forced to try, they are happily surprised to find themselves succeeding. Teachers must show respect and have faith in students and keep the atmosphere positive.
- Scaffolded- Start with a simple question and progress to harder ones, drawing students in, engaging them on terms that emphasize what they already know.

Hands Up/Hands Down- Students can continue to raise their hands if they wish, or you can instruct them them to keep their hands down. Hands up allows a teacher to continue to reward students who want to participate, and hands down sends the message that the teacher is in charge and everyone needs to be prepared.

Timing the Name- "Question. Pause. Name. " This format ensures that every student hears the question and begins preparing an answer during the pause period. If you call a name first, it lets all other students off the hook and they check out for the moment.

What are your thoughts?
Think of your critical practice class and recall a time that your co-teacher used cold calling to engage the class. Did you find it helpful? Were the students "on their toes"?

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Wait Time: Delaying a few strategic seconds after you finish asking a question and before you ask a student to begin answering it.

Minds work fast, and the amount of additional time necessary to improve the quality of answers may be small, but even 3-5 seconds is the key to students success.

Students responses are likely to increase in length and correctness.

The number of failures to respond is likely to decrease... Less "I don't knows".

The number of students who volunteer to answer is likely to increase.

The use of evidence in answers is likely to increase.

Some examples are:

"I'm waiting for more hands."

"I'd like to see at least fifteen hands before we hear an answer."

"I'm waiting for someone who can connect this scene to another play, ideally Macbeth."

"I will start taking answers in ten seconds."

Top teachers use their narration of the interim period during their wait time to give them incentive and reinforce the specific behaviors that will be most productive to their students during that time.
What are your thoughts?
Look at the examples of Wait Time and see if you can come up with some more examples that would work well with students that are in the same grade as your teacher candidate program.

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Wait Time: Delaying a few strategic seconds after you finish asking a question and before you ask a student to begin answering it. Minds wo...

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Quick writing to tap into student's thinking

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Key Idea Everybody Writes: Set your students up for rigorous engagement by giving them the opportunity to reflect first in writing before di...

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Good bullet points