Energizer

Introduction: Many instructors approach their learners with a variety of strategies to process information. Think about classroom situations you’ve been in. What strategies have you used to help students “get it or stay engaged?” Brainstorming, think-pair-share, graphic organizers are all tools that are often used in the classroom to encourage learning. In this lesson plan, you will be introduced to just a few techniques that will raise academic expectations that make classrooms a place of rigorous and intentional learning. Throughout the lesson, you will practice these techniques to enhance your own learning. - Ability to do what? - It’s about what? - It means for you to what?

What types of teaching methods do you find effective for your students?

Turn and Talk is a technique many teachers use, but often with flaws that undercut its effectiveness. By studying teachers who employ Turn and Talk deliberately and skillfully, we have identified a set of tools to maximize efficiency, promote accountability, and drive rigor. Through analysis of master teachers’ techniques and deep practice, participants in the session will develop understanding and strengthen skills with: Five purposes of Turn and Talk Tools for Efficiency and Accountability Designing for breadth of participation and depth of thinking

This session is designed to train teachers in the technique of Show Call. Show Call is a type of Cold Call that involves taking students’ written work and displaying it to the class. Champion teachers use it to maximize rigor and accountability for written work, spotlight “bright spots” in student work, and build a culture of revision. Through analysis of master teachers’ techniques and deep practice, participants in the session will develop understanding and strengthen skills with: Purposes of Show Call Keys for an effective Show Call Planning and executing before, during, and after Show Call.

LEARNING OBJECTIVES Structuring and Delivering Your Lesson by using the Break it Down Technique Engaging Students in Your Lessons by using Cold Call (Scaffolding) and Everybody Writes Technique Setting and Maintaining High Behavioral Expectations using the 100 Percent Technique Building Character and Trust by using the J-Factor Technique.

Break it Down Technique # 16 “Break it Down” is a method for correcting a student’s error or helping a student get the answer so that he or she can learn from the mistake and fill in the information that was missing beforehand.

“Soft language issued from their spitless lips as they swished in low circles round and round the field, winding hither and thither through the weeds.” (James Joyce, “Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man”)

Cold Call Key Idea: In order to make engaged participation the expectation, call on students regardless of whether they have raised their hands. Technique #22 Via “Teach Like a Champion”. " How can I adapt my decisions about which students I call on to help all my students pay better attention?"

Technique 36 via Teach Like a Champion 100 Percent Technique Nonverbal Intervention (Continuing instruction) Positive group correction (Following along) Anonymous individual correction (Need two people) Private individual correction (Proximal, private, calm) Lightning individual correction (____ I need your eyes) Consequence (Quickly, non-invasive, non-emotional, continuum) Technique 36 via Teach Like a Champion

Practical Exercise

(Effective Teaching Visual Aid) On a poster board or Post-it, list the following: The name of the effective teaching strategies When the method should be used in the Four-Phase lesson plan Why it is effective Include: Definition/Description Uses/Purpose Any notes of caution Instructor role Student role 

Reflection: What was the most interesting fact you learned about your effective teaching strategies? Will you take a different view of this strategy the next time you observe an instructor using it in the classroom? Would you use this effective teaching strategy the next time you instruct/teach?

Think about the strategies that you have learned today Think about the strategies that you have learned today. Which JROTC lessons might you use some of the learned strategies? Why?

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Break It Down Cold Call Everybody Writes 100 Percent J-Factor Review Break It Down Cold Call Everybody Writes 100 Percent J-Factor

Reflection: What have you learned about effective teaching strategies? What questions do you still have?