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What Engagement Is:
Engagement is being intellectually and emotionally invested in learning.
When the majority of students are engaged, they are actively involved in challenging tasks that require questioning and critical thinking. Students are showing interest in what they're learning and are typically doing most of the talking and/or thinking.
Lozano.mp4Toss a Question
Toss a Question
Middle School - Grade 8 - Science
Toss A Question is a Lead4ward strategy that engages students in collaborative practice and analyzing a stimulus. In this video students examine a food web and make connections between vocabulary terms and the interactions in the food web.
Teacher Moves Visible:
Positive Reinforcement
Dual Coding
Questioning
Proximity and Feedback
Addressing Disruptive Behavior
Private Student Conference
Talk, Read, Talk, Write
Talk, Read, Talk, Write
Elementary - Grade 5 - ELA
Talk, Read, Talk, Write is a great strategy for building content understanding and academic language at the same time. With this strategy students discuss, read with purpose, process their thinking, and then communicate their understanding through clear, evidence-based writing.
Teacher Moves Visible:
Proximity and Feedback
Student Pairings
Classroom Organization
Sentence Stems
Teacher Modeling Tasks
Silent Behavior Correction
Talk, Read, Talk, Write.mp4Academic Conversations.mp4Academic Conversations
Academic Conversations
High School - Grade 9 - Spanish 1
This video showcases multiple strategies that make academic conversations focused and effective. It highlights how students build on each other’s ideas, ask clarifying questions, and explain their ideas clearly. You will notice how the teacher uses progress monitoring to keep students engaged and adjust instruction.
Teacher Moves Visible:
Community Circle
Class and Student Choice
Grouping Strategies
Power Zone
Monitor and Adjust
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