1. Lesson Components/ Effective Instruction Student Engagement Checking for Understanding Effective Questioning Practice- Guided and Independent

2. Engaging students with Technology

3. Engagement:  Consistently throughout the lesson  All learners involved  Relevant to the objective

4. Criteria for Effective Questioning  Congruent (relevant) to the learning  Invitation for ALL students to think  A range of questions are used to extend thinking from a base of knowledge to higher order thinking that is more critical and creative

5. WAIT TIME EFFECTS  Length of student responses increases between 300- 700 %  More inferences  More speculative thinking  More questions  Decrease in failure to respond  Decrease in discipline problems What waiting time effects:

6. Checking for understanding:  Evidence is observable (overt)  Evidence is of ALL students  Evidence is congruent to the objective

8. Effective Technology Integration  What are my lesson objectives?  How will I plan my lesson to meet these objectives?  What resources (including technology tools) will I use to help students meet the objectives?  How will I know students have learned? How will I respond?

10. What tools can support effective technology integration?  Blogs  Wikis  Discussion Boards  iPads  SMART Response Systems  Online Assessment Tools- Socrative  Development of… Podcasts Screencasts Webpages

11. Specific tools:  KidBlog KidBlog  Wikispaces Classroom Wikispaces Classroom  Today’s meet Today’s meet  Assessment tools: GoogleDrive forms Microsoft Office Forms (SkyDrive) Socrative

12. Podcasts, screencasts, webpages:  Photostory (not web tool!)  Glogster EDU Glogster EDU  Animoto Animoto  Screen cast-o-matic or ScreenR Screen cast-o-matic ScreenR  Camtasia  Google Sites Google Sites