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Make sure children are working with others.
We are practicing our Opinion Writing by having the students critique the author and working together to generate analyses of the themes of the novel we are reading.

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We did a follow up writing piece for students to reflect on their leprechaun trap creations and explain why they did or did not work, as well as, share their favorite part and what the hardest part of the process was.

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Debbie We made leprechaun traps and then we did a written report as to why we did not catch a leprechaun. We wrote about what we could do different and drew a picture of it.

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Debbie We made leprechaun traps and then we did a written report as to why we did not catch a leprechaun. We wrote about what we could do different and drew a picture of it.

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Keeping students engage. Working in teams.

Have students in groups and collaborate. Using different ways of them showing their understanding.

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Getting the students up and moving around more during lessons.

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Joyce, compared articles presenting a topic differently and then relate to their life experiences

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Joyce, compared articles presenting a topic differently and then relate to their life experiences

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I changed the way I do/give spelling tests. Practice is almost never paper/pencil.

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Give children an opportunity to move.  It might be unexpected!
I am using tic tac toe menus in RtI and I am including DOK activities.

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Movement-scavenger hunt with partners looking for nouns.

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Having students use more movement in class. I had them get into partners and do parts of speech on the white boards around the room. They also had to collaborate to find out what the parts of speech were.

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Moving and gaming keeps kids engaged and motivated.
Did Declaration of Independence in their own words, then made a presentation with a rap and tweet related to the topic.

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I liked the 4 corners activity - I used it for character traits with Charlotte's Web. It reminded me of 360 math, because I could see what each group was doing at the same time.

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we added a reflection piece to our leprechaun trap build, where they had to think about why their trap failed, and what they'd do to improve it.

No homework worksheets-- only writing about their book.

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I did a Kagan type answer session and the students were very engaged.

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We did a reflection piece to our leprechaun traps, where they had to think about their traps and why they failed and how they could improve it.
We are doing less paper/pencil in class.

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getting the kids moving helps get the normally unengaged students.

4 corners: parts of speech

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Using one of our Problem Sets from Math, we added it to Seesaw.  The students explained how they added 2-digit numbers, showing tens and ones.

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I did the 4 Corners activity with our novel's vocabulary words.  I also did a Level 3 DOK activity this week when students supported their opinions with facts and how to verify their (factual) evidence.

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Engagement: Moving around helps keep the energy up on routine lessons such as Parts of Speech.  I used the 4 corners game with photo prompts and asked students to name verbs, nouns, adjectives and prepositions in the photo

For DOK: Students expanded their work on learning adaptations for survival by creating their own animal, naming its adaptations and writing a narrative about waking up as this animal one day.

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Movement and games enhance learning.

Flocabulary
360 Math (with collaboration)

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Take Away: Moving/Playing/Games enhances engagement and memory of content.

DOK: Opening up options for students to develop/solve problems (socially and academically) without great guidance.

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I tried the 4 corners game with my students, they loved it.

Students wrote, solved, and explained to their classmates how they solved their own word problems, and why they chose that strategy.

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I am using the sign language idea to help my students remember their parts of speech.

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I was only there at the beginning of this staff meeting. :) Take away - collaborating with others makes it easier to plan for an engaging activity! Also, when students are engaged, they attend to the learning in a more meaningful way.

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Engagement improves effort.

More student driven learning.

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Getting kids to move or making it a game helps with engagement.

DOK:  I've made a menu of options for students to complete when they're done with their problem set with different DOK levels.

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Moving around during the lesson.

I had them get out of their seats for each question, had them use a marker and whiteboard to present (took turns). Also used hand motions and arm movements in small groups to help with vocabulary