Teach Like A Champion

Teach Like A Champion Session #4 More Engagement Techniques: Pepper, Wait Time, and Everybody Writes

Do Now: • Please sit with you PT partner. • Please answer this question on your handout. What techniques did you use this week to engage your students? How well did they work?

Objectives • FWBAT to understand why Pepper, Wait Time, and Everybody Writes are techniques that can raise student achievement. • FWBAT to begin incorporating Pepper, Wait Time, and Everybody Writes into their lesson plans and Practice Teaching

Do Now • Objectives and Agenda • Introduction to the New Techniques • Guided viewing of the clips • Discussion • Exit Ticket and Closure

Pepper • Utilizes fast paced group oriented activities to review familiar information and foundational skills. • Great Warm up activity • Sometimes involves Cold Call and sometimes doesn’t. • Pepper is a game! • A trademark of Pepper is unpredictability: no one know where the question goes! Use pick sticks • You can use head to head or sit down as techniques to make it unpredictable and fun.

Wait Time • In order to tap the power of ideas give Wait Time—delay a few seconds after you ask a question and before you ask a student to answer it.

The Benefits of Wait Time • The length and correctness of student responses are likely to increase. • The number of failures to respond ( those who say, “I don’t know”) is likely to decrease. • The number of students who volunteer to answer is likely to increase. • The use of evidence in answers is likely to increase.

Making Wait Time intentional and productive • “I’m waiting for more hands” • “I’m going to give everyone lots of time because this question is tricky. Your first answer may not be your best. • “I’m seeing people thinking deeply and jotting down thoughts. I’ll give everyone a few more seconds.” • “I’m seeing people going back into the chapter to see if they can find the scene. That seems like a great idea.”

Everybody Writes The Key Idea:Set your students up for rigorous engagement by giving them the opportunity to reflect first in writing before discussing. As author Joan Didion says, “I write to know what I think”.

Benefits of Everybody Writes • It allows you to select effective response to begin your discussion since you can review student ideas in advance by circulating and reading over shoulders. • It allows you to cold call students simply and naturally since you know everyone is prepared with thoughts and you can merely ask, “ What did you write about Kiyonna?” to kick things off.

3. It allows you to give every student, not just those who can get their hands up fast, the chance to be part of the conversation. 4. Processing thoughts in writing refines them, a process that challenges students intellectually, engages them, and improves the quality of their ideas and their writing. 5. You set standards or steer students in a direction you think fruitful. 6. Students remember twice as much of what they are learning if they write it down.

Let’s watch the techniques in action! Remember to take notes on your observations and take-aways

Think Pair Share

EXIT TICKET How will you incorporate these techniques into your teaching?

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