Engaging+Students


 * Students must be engaged to want to learn no matter what their cognitive level. My students love to do their work!

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Below my students are engaged in a word game we used each week toward the end of last year to help us create new words of the week. They loved this game because it was new and exciting. They all got to take turns rolling the dice and making a word. I would have them each then say the word they made and each student would then write the word. I would find a picture of the word and we would look up the definition and write a sentence using the word. Then from the 6 words made we would pick four to be the words of the week.



Below you see a picture of a board from the year 2008/2009. Each year I have to change my boards to meet the needs and functioning levels of the students. This particular board was very engaging for my class last year. Most of my students were able to read and or write. This board has a do now for the morning that contained simple steps. The center of the board was for a science lesson using scales and the graph was for an ongoing graphing lesson we had been using. The cubes on the board were made by the students the week before during a geometry math lesson. They loved the cubes so much that we taped them to the board.

The student below loved the geometry lesson were we made the cubes you see on the board above. He was so engaged in making the cubes that we also made cones and rectangles.

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