1. Do All Students Participate in Your Classroom?
Mitzi Hoback & Suzanne Whisler
ESU 4
November 29, 2012

2. Explicit Instruction: Chapter 6 Eliciting Responses

3. Today’s Outcomes Strategies for eliciting frequent responses
Verbal Responses
Written Responses
Action Responses

4. Active Participation - Why?
Why is it important to constantly elicit responses from students?

5. What does the research say?
Opportunities to respond relate to:
Increased academic achievement
Increased on-task behavior
Decreased behavioral challenges

6. All Students Respond. When possible use response procedures that engage all students.
Students are more attentive and on task. Students are retrieving, rehearsing and practicing the information, concepts, skills or strategies being taught increasing the probability of retention.

7. Maintain a Perky Pace Input Question Response Monitor Feedback
Maintain a pace of instruction that engages students and optimizes the amount of content covered without sacrificing adequate thinking time. Chunking instruction allows students time to process new information. 10 x 2 Rule. Also allows teachers to check on clarity of instruction & adjust the lesson as needed: reteaching critical information, clearing up any misconceptions, or moving ahead in the lesson.
Monitor
Feedback

8. Verbal Responses Choral Responses Partner Responses
Individual Responses
Team Responses

9. Choral Responses Use at all levels.
Use when the answer is short and there is only one correct answer.
Use to increase frequency of student responses.
Benefits:
All students involved
Increased opportunities to respond
Safe - shy, reluctant, students with learning challenges
Built in support for struggling students
Receive instant feedback

10. Choral Response Tips Ask question Provide adequate thinking time
Use auditory signal
If students don’t respond or blurt out an answer, repeat Gentle Redo

11. Partner Responses Assign partners
Pair lower performing students with middle performing students
Give students a number or letter (1 & 2, or A & B)
Sit partners next to each other
Utilize triads when appropriate

12. Partner Responses Tips
Provide a sentence starter
Teach students to respond in a complete sentence using wording from the question
Provide a verbal sentence starter
Provide a written sentence starter

13. Other Hints for Partners
Teach students how to work together
Look, Lean, and Whisper
Change partnerships occasionally
Every 3 to 6 weeks

14. Partner Uses Teach-Pause Study, Tell, Help, Check
Say answer to partner
Retell content of lesson using graphic organizer or powerpoint slides
Brainstorm (Think, Pair, Share)
Explain process or stategy
Read to or with partner
Teach-Pause
Study, Tell, Help, Check
Teach/Pause - The instructor teachers for 12 to 18 minutes and then pauses for 2 minutes during which students work in pairs to discuss the lecture and rework their notes. Results in higher retention of lecture material

15. Study, Tell, Help, Check Study
Give the students a minute or two to study notes, text material, graphic organizer, or handout
Tell
Ask partners (#1 or #2) to retell what they remember about topic
Help
Have the second partner assist by:
Asking questions
Giving hints
Telling additional information
Check
When both partners have exhausted recall, they check with their notes, text material, graphic organizer, or handout
Study, Tell, Help, Check

16. Team Responses Numbered Heads Together Inside-Outside Circle
Pairs Check
Numbered Heads Together - After writing their own answer to a question, teammates put their heads together to ensure all members can answer. The teacher then calls a number and students with that number share their answers.
Pairs Check - One partner soves a problem with the other coaches. They they switch roles. Pairs check their answers with another pair.

17. Individual Verbal Responses
Whip Around or Pass
Use when many possible answers.
Give students thinking time
Write names on cards or sticks
Use two decks of playing cards
Apps
Teach Tools
TeachersPick
Who’s Next

18. What are the benefits of verbal responses?

19. Written Responses Response Slates Response Cards Guided Notes
Roundtable
Think-Write-Pair-Share

20. Response Cards
Yes No
Agree Disagree
A B C D

21. Action Responses Touching/Pointing Act Out Gestures Facial Expressions
Hand Signals

22. What are the benefits of written or action responses?

23. Share 3
Share 3 strategies you can utilize in your classroom tomorrow.