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Student Engagement:
Student Engagement:
As we plan for best first instruction, we should remember to consider intentional engagement strategies that require our students to be active learners who are "stretched" or "pushed" to meet a a standard or goal.
Daily Focus:
Daily Focus:
Our daily lessons should include:
Inclusive Opening to "hook" students into our lesson
Active Student Engagement to meet the daily target/skill/standard
Intentional Closure to reflect, wrap up, and close the lesson
AVID Resources:
AVID Resources:
AVID has various resources to increase student engagement in our classrooms. The resources below have been pulled from MyAVID, and they also can be found as shared instructional strategies in Toddle.
To gain access to the MyAVID website, please contact Kathleen Carley.
Project Zero Visible Thinking Routines:
Project Zero Visible Thinking Routines:
Project Zero is a Harvard educational research group that provides research-based resources to help classroom teachers support ATL thinking skills (critical thinking, creative thinking, and transfer).
Visible Thinking Routines are linked below, and all can be found at Harvard's Project Zero: Thinking Routine Toolbox website. They are questions and prompts that encourage thinking to be more "visible" in the classroom and allow student to deepen their learning, discussion, and reflection.
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