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ABC’S OF LEADERSHIP – CHILDREN’S WORKSHOP

ENGAGE GREETING – Shake hands at the door and welcome each person and have everyone fill out a nametag. GOOD THINGS…Tell me something good about anything positive in your class/area of leadership this past year X-PLORE ACTIVITY: Flexible Trollies DEBRIEF: Who won? Why? What were your observations of the two teams? APPLICATION: TodayContinue reading “ABC’S OF LEADERSHIP – CHILDREN’S WORKSHOP”

DISCUSSION BALL

A great way to recap a lesson or to introduce new material to your class is by using a discussion ball. They make professional discussion balls with specific content questions on them, but I prefer to buy a $1.00 beach ball and take a list of labels and create 10 to 20 questions focused around my topic.Continue reading “DISCUSSION BALL”

THINK PAIR SHARE

The think, pair, share strategy is a cooperative learning technique that encourages individual participation and is applicable across all grade levels and class sizes. Students think through questions using three distinct steps: 1) THINK Students think independently about the question that has been posed, forming ideas of their own. 2) PAIR Students are grouped in pairsContinue reading “THINK PAIR SHARE”