Great! You gave the strategy from post #1 in this series a go, and you are getting significantly more classroom participation and are inching toward more worthwhile discussions! But…the responses you are getting are not assuring you that the students are comprehending the material. What to do next? Problem #2 – No One is Getting […]
How to Engage Your Whole Class in Worthwhile Discussion
Facilitating Worthwhile Class Discussions AKA How Do I Get My Students to Talk? Your goal: worthwhile discussion. Your results: less than stellar, to say the least. You know what I’m talking about. You try to get a good discussion going in class but it’s always the same students with their hands up…or maybe no one […]
NaNoWriMo: Unleash Your Students’ Inner Novelists!
NaNoWriMo Novel Writing Of all the experiences offered to my students in my classroom across more than twenty years, one literacy encounter stood head and shoulders above the rest in student engagement, impact on learning, and development of a strong sense of a learning community among my students: NaNoWriMo! Encouraged by a co-worker to give […]
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