Strategy Notes

Strategy Purpose Description Notes/Sketch

To teach students There are different groups around the
Stay and stray to collaborate class. Those groups will collaborate
with other and complete the task. Then the
classmates while students in the group will be
building off numbered off. One person chosen
others' ideas. will stay and explain. While the other
two will stray to the next group
listening to that person's response.

To keep all types The teacher will begin with

Pictorial of learners blank sheets and begin to
involved.
develop a picture. Along with
Primarily for
ELDs who can that, the teachers will provide
use visuals to be some facts about the picture.
engaged in the Students will try and guess
material. what the picture is. This is ideal
for starting new material in the
classroom.
Can help Students will have a statement they
students on found interesting whether that be
First word last from reading, lectures, or videos.
making
word Then they will share the statement
inferences they found interesting. Each group
while being member will guess why that person
able to expand chose the statement. Then the
on a person will explain why the statement
topic/concept was significant to them.
 To help Students will have a chart,
Clock partner students specifically for the clock partner,
collaborate of four people. Each time the
with different teacher wishes for students to
peers more collaborate with different peers
efficiently. there will be a designated name
to meet up with that partner.
The clock partner can be
expanded to a whole classroom
given the respected list.
To increase Each student has a popsicle
the stick with their name. The
engagement teacher will randomly select a
Popsicle sticks of all stick that volunteers the
students and student to engage with the
to remain class material.
neutral in the
classroom.

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Strategy Purpose Description Notes/Sketch

To allow all Students create green, yellow, and red
students to dots on a paper symbolizing a traffic
communicate light. If a student shows green it means
Traffic lights
with teachers the student understood the lesson. If
for assistance. the students show yellow they may
Also to give need further explanation or some help.
feedback to a Red means a student is lost in the
teacher about lesson and needs immediate
how much the assistance.
class
understood the
lesson.
Timeline To allow for The teacher creates a timeline of
engagement and events. A timeline can include visuals,
visualization. It
allows the students
facts, and dates of events. Also to
to understand the challenge more advanced students
events and create they can change or recall the
recalling skills. vocabulary on the timeline.

Promotes Students will be put together in their

collaboration “home group.” There they each will be
and teamwork. given a number. Then they will move
Jigsaw puzzle
Helps students places into the number that was given
practice to them. They will retrieve the data
speaking, and given to them and then go back to their
notetaking home groups. Students recall the data
skills. from their numbered groups and share
information with the home groups.
Students cannot go back to the table
with the data once they have left.

It makes A teacher will set up pictures

Observation students around the room that relates to a
Chart interested new topic in class. Students will
and engaged pair up and visit each picture. At
with a new each picture, students will write
topic. down what they observe, ask a
question, and predict the answer
to the question.
It helps When class is close to over
Exit Ticket students students will have to recall
become more information about the material. In
engaged in order to leave class students will
the material. have to answer a question or give
some feedback to the teacher.
This is written on paper and once
it is turned in the student is free to
leave the class.

Strategy Notes
 Strategy Purpose Description Notes/Sketch
To allow ELD Students will read a topic
Stronger and students to and pick ideas to discuss
Better borrow from in a group setting. As the
others, students talk, they can use
other students' ideas to
add to their prior
knowledge. (borrowing
strategies)

To get The T graph is separated

T graph for students into three sections. The
social skills involved in top of the T chart is the
good social word itself. Students will
norms. come up with synonyms
While giving and images that describe
examples of the word. Then students
how to on either side of the T
display such will explain what the
word looks and sounds
like in the classroom.
This can also be followed
with images for ELD
learners. To articulate
further, students will
come up with phrases or
actions that show how
the word would be
displayed in the class.
 For The teacher draws an
classroom image of a student on a
Suzy management piece of paper. Then the
and to teacher would say mean
prevent comments to the
bullying with drawing. Every time
a visual there is a comment made
the teacher rips and/or
crumbles the paper. After
the teacher unfolds the
paper. The teacher will
describe the
repercussions of being
mean to other students
by the paper not being
able to be fixed.
To improve Students raise their
classroom hands for a question and
management the teacher will number
. Make sure off their hands. The
Airplane all students students will speak in the
Stacking feel heard order their hands went
up.
To give This requires two
students a students. One student
way to find will ask the phrase I
Students out things don’t know… followed by
getting to about their something they want to
each other ( I classmates know about the other
don't are with a person. For example, I
know…) lower don’t know your favorite
effective food. They will ask
rate. Also, it questions continuously
gives for a minute. Once the
structure to time is up the other
what to talk person will answer those
about. questions for a minute.
The two roles will switch
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Strategy Purpose Description Notes/Sketch

For the whole Students will be placed in a
carousel class to circular setting while being
partnered with the person across
collaborate
from them. Both students will
ideas in a share their thoughts based on
practical what the teacher asked. This will
manner happen for a short amount of time.
Once time is up the students will
rotate in a carousel motion and
repeat the process till everyone
has shared together.

A visulazation Concept maps are graphic

tool where organizers. Students will take
students can
Concept Map information and put it in their
make concepts
their own. It own words. They will organize
helps to process the information in a way that
their thoughts gives a flow to their writing.
while writing.

To tap into a Having students talk to each other

Discussion student's prior in a group setting with little to no
teacher interaction. These can be
and knowledge
in small groups or a large class. A
Questioning with quality teacher during this strategy needs
conversation to regulate by focusing and
in the funneling questions. Funneling
classroom questions are questions to make
sure students understand the
basic concepts of the information.
Focus questions are the main part
of the conversion that causes deep
intellectual thought.

Closed The purpose Closed reading is reading

Reading is to help through repeated reading,
students annotation, questioning, and
make discussions. Students will first
inferential repeatedly read in order to
 meaning of become fluent in the text.
the text. In Then they will annotate the
other words, text to digest the material
helping being given in their own
students perspective. Then there will
understand be a guided discussion to
the text by expand further. Students will
digesting the then engage in the discussion
material in to better understand the text
this fashion. with other peers.
Critical Students will read a text
thinking and ask open-ended
skills. It questions. They will expand
creates a on ideas and comment on
Socratic place where others responses. This will
Seminar peers can all take place in a safe and
deeply civil environment.
understand
the text with
one another
by
collaboratin
g ideas.