Be Ready, Be Responsible, Be Respectful

November Bite sized PD

#26

Maintaining a Lively Pace

A little fun before we start…

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Quick review of previously learned strategies

#35 Demonstrating Withitness

#40 Displaying Objectivity and Control

#41 Demonstrating value and respect for reluctant learners

#42 In depth questioning opportunities for reluctant learners

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Withitness and QFT

Share your thoughts about both!

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Each person to take about 1-2 minutes and share your learning!

Maintaining a Lively Pace

Did you know?

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Instructional pace affects students’ ability to pay attention!

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What types of occurrences make it hard for students to stay engaged:

• Interruptions
• Lulls in activity
• Slow transitions

Strategies to enact this element

Instructional Segment

Pace Modulation

Motivational Hooks

Instructional Segments

What is it?

The following aspects of management and instruction are well planned and occur in a brisk fashion

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• Administrative tasks- handing in assignments or distributing materials
• Presentation of new content-presenting content in small chunks and allowing time for students to process
• Practicing and deepening understanding of key knowledge and skills- students examine similarities and differences and errors in reasoning
• Application of knowledge and new situations- interacting with content- experimenting, investigations, problem solving
• Getting organized into groups- Where and what groups
• Individual work (during and after)What do students do when work is completed?
• Transitions- Teacher signals end of activity, announce the next (when it will start, take and end)and cue students to the next

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Pace Modulation

What is it?

The teacher speeds up or slows down the pace of the lesson to meet the engagement needs of students.

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Ways:

• Processing time- to slow down content delivery give more time for students to process
• Group Interaction- more opportunities with partners or groups will slow pace
• Individual responses- using more of these will speed up the pace
• Formative assessment- if students seem bored or overwhelmed- what do they know (speeds up the pace) or what they might be confused about
• Types of lessons- fast paced- brief direct instruction with lots of practicing
• Pace of speech- talking quickly speeds up the pace
• Number of gestures- fewer gestures slows the pace
• Writing on the board- slows the pace
• Visual aids- to reinforce content- slows the pace

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Motivational Hooks

What is it?

Teacher uses anecdotes, video clips, audio clips, headlines, short attention grabbing media to spark students attention (personal story or unusual information related to a topic)

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Next steps:

Between now and our February meeting:

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Implement and reflect on at least 3 aspects of Instructional Segments or Pace Modulation and select 1 example of a motivational hook (one you haven’t used before) and complete a short reflection about each one.

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i.e. Strategy- Motivational Hooks

- scenario or science demonstration- elephant toothpaste