One question I have about the practicality of this is simply how best to encourage students to participate. When doing this sort of thing before, I inevitably had one or two successful rooms where the "talkative" students would be. Others would be silent.

-Jen B.

Strategy

I really like the choice boards for both fiction and nonfiction! I am also excited about the option to use Magic Schools to generate others! I could see trying this in class soon as a discussion activity. I think I would start with fewer choices so as not to overwhelm with option.

Question

Need to check this out in Magic Schools!

Linda Reimer

Strategy: Jigsaw Method

Question: What might this method look like being employed for potential assignments both in and out of class (such as a collaborative study guide)?

Rotation 2

Strategy: Bringing the World into Your Classroom 

Question: How might this strategy improve engagement and how might assessments be altered to further promote the forming of real world connections?

1. One Strategy to Try

• One strategy I would like to try from slide 48 as it has great ideas (ex: the option for making a trading card). This could really create some great ideas and designs from our students with their creativity.

2. One Question I would Like to Explore

   • On slide 57, I would like to try and find ways to connect the real life of career to English and use this to support authentic buy in from the students on what we are working on, but also give them ideas for their future.

Marsha L.

1. One Strategy to Try

   • On slide 16, I am really interested in the jigsaw ideas as this connects to direct ideas that I wish for students to learn (ex: What is the main idea) but in small chunks.

2. One Question to explore

   • I would really like to look into the collaborative problem solving through virtual simulations. This could be really interesting and fun to get deep into the assignment and I would like to try this (slide 20)

1. Collaborative Problem solving would be a nice one to try in a math class, especially with real world problems.

2. I wonder how I would facilitate this. I could try assigning students to tables and popping in to each one to see how they are doing.

I like the idea of using the jigsaw strategy; I can see using this during table discussions. I like the idea of students learning from each other!

1. I want to do the Table Share in terms of Revision and focusing on different areas (thesis statement, textual evidence, topic sentences...)

2. How can we automatically "move" from table to table? Would we have a slide deck that would change per table? How do you set up differentiation groups in Engageli to allow for peer coaching?

1. I would love to try out choice boards, but I don't know if it would fit within our curriculum for next week. I can see using it for the upcoming Research project though!

2. My #1 challenge in a virtual classroom is participation. I love group work, but students find it frustrating when their group doesn't help out.

2. What is the most advantageous method for grouping students virtually where everyone gets appropriate rigor/support?

Guest speakers would be great, my question would be what is the process of getting them approved?

I love the idea of bringing in guest speakers. I was interested in the slide on Ted Talks as an option. I'm not sure yet where I would fit it in, but I will be exploring the Ted Talk playlists to see what's available.

1. This rotation resonated with me the most. PBL would be such a fun thing to do in math, love the ideas that were presented.

2. How could I find more PBL ideas for math that are centered around my content.

1. One Strategy to Try

   • I really like the idea on Slide 43. By having the students go a explore through virtual field trip this can build a deep connection of the topic at hand. Afterwards we can then transfer this into synthesizing the information a creating something (ex: take a tour of James Town, and then doing something similar like on slide 34, in creation of a colony town).

2. One Question to Explore

   • I would like to explore more TED talks as a whole as a way to engage the students through a different modality.

1. For ELA: PBL would be more focused on longer term projects: for example: Creative Writing for a Cause:

   1. Students write a series of short stories, poems, or essays to explore a specific social or political issue, then compile them into a collection to be shared with the community.  This would work for ENG 208A regarding Genocide.

2. Question: How are we to try and do this in an accelerated semester? I would love to do this with another subject area as well.

One Question I have is the best method for paring or grouping for the sharing. With some inactive students and low participation ones it can be a challenge. I am thinking bigger groups to facilitate more sharing?

My question would be about implementation in the virtual setting. Standing in the middle of a physical classroom makes so many collaboration tools doable to participate in as well as to manage. Jumping from viewing one table then the next is not really set up in that same format.