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Lesson Components/Effective Instruction
Student Engagement
Checking for Understanding
Effective Questioning
Practice- Guided and Independent
Engaging students with Technology
Criteria for Effective Questioning
Congruent (relevant) to the learning
Invitation for ALL students to think
A range of questions are used to extend thinking from a base of knowledge to higher order thinking that is more critical and creative
WAIT TIME EFFECTS
Length of student responses increases between
300-700 %
More inferences
More speculative thinking
More questions
Decrease in failure to respond
Decrease in discipline problems
What waiting time effects:
Checking for understanding:
Evidence is observable (overt)
Evidence is of ALL students
Evidence is congruent to the objective
Effective Technology Integration
What are my lesson objectives? How will I plan my lesson to meet
these objectives? What resources (including
technology tools) will I use to help students meet the objectives?
How will I know students have learned? How will I respond?
What tools can support effective technology integration? Blogs Wikis Discussion Boards iPads SMART Response Systems Online Assessment Tools- Socrative Development of…
PodcastsScreencastsWebpages
Specific tools:
KidBlog Wikispaces Classroom Today’s meet Assessment tools:
GoogleDrive formsMicrosoft Office Forms (SkyDrive)Socrative
Podcasts, screencasts, webpages:
Photostory (not web tool!) Glogster EDU Animoto Screen cast-o-matic or ScreenR Camtasia Google Sites