1. Stage your room! Hook your students into your curriculum by staging your room in a different way. That could be rearranging desks into tables to form small socratic seminars. Draping curtains on your windows to create a certain mood. The sky’s the limit!
2. Build movement into your lesson every day! It could be a simple brain break or create partners across the room in which they must collaborate with, and then return to their seats. Gallery Walks, Carousel, Silent Debates on paper! There are a plethora of ways to build movement into your classroom.
3. Props! What prop can you bring in that will up your engagement today? The Talking Fake Candle of Power? That dollar tree skeleton hand? That squishy football you throw around your room when you ask kids to answer a question?
4. Greet your kids at the door by name every day. Education research says your classroom engagement goes up by 30 percent just by greeting kids at the door. Now that is just plain easy wins!
5. Gamification! What can you gamify to up your engagement? Family Feud style? Jeopardy. Kahoot. GimKit. Blooket. Scattergories. The options are limitless.
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Katie Kinder 