Spark and maintain student interest in learning
Designing lessons that capture & hold students’ attention.
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Design a process for students to set their own goals and use those goals to inform the decisions they make in class around the choices they are offered.
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Design open-ended assignments and prompt students to work in pairs or groups to determine how they will approach completing the assignment.
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Use student surveys to design differentiated activities and tasks and assign students to small groups accordingly.
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Design multiple ways for students to access content and demonstrate their learning and prompt students to choose which pathway.
Resources
Elementary + Secondary:
Resources
Elementary + Secondary:
Engaging students in interactive learning experiences.
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Have students lead reflective conversations with their peers.
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Use a variety of thinking routines, such as digging deeper into ideas, to ask open-ended questions and encourage students to do the same.
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Let students choose which differentiated tasks they work on based on their interests.
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Offer flexibility in time, order of activities, OR how they access content, to complete a task.
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Elementary + Secondary: