Individual/Group Verbal
Paired/Groups
Written
Physical
Misc.
100
In this strategy a teacher randomly calls on students.
What is non volunteer?
100
This activity can be used to break up long reading sections by having small groups responsible for reading and teaching a single section.
What is a jigsaw activity?
100
This activity happens really fast.
What is a quick write?
100
This activity allows students to give a response without speaking.
What are silent hand signals?
100
The current edu-speak term for working in teams.
What is PLC?
200
This strategy is named after an (in)famous Athenian teacher.
What is Socratic dialogue?
200
This is a great way for studnets to check their answers or discuss ideas with a peer.
What is think-pair-share?
200
This note-taking strategy involves dividing note-taking paper into three sections.
What are Cornell Notes?
200
This activity would allow students to be a US Senator.
What is role playing?
200
The acronym for the action of finding out whether students have "gotten" a topic.
What is CFU?
300
All students respond in unison to a question or prompt when a teacher employs this strategy.
What is choral response?
300
Don't confuse this activity with the current right-wing political movement ( or Alice in Wonderland).
What is a Tea Party?
300
This note-taking strategy is a distant relative to origami.
What are "foldables"?
300
This activity uses human bodies as its artistic medium.
What are body sculptures?
300
Long-haired-philosopher-ultimate-player-literature-kitesurfing-fun-loving teacher.
Who is Jim Jennings?
400
This strategy allows students to explore all meanings, or potential answers to a question, problem or topic.
What is brainstorming?
400
Many of our classrooms are decorated with the results of this activity.
What are collaborative posters?
400
This strategy may just look like a contemporary version of a 19th century slate board, but...
What are white boards?
400
This activity is a French word frequently used in theatre.
What is tableau?
400
Current fearless leader of MTA
Who is Jenny Otter?
500
This activity encourages students to take positions about a given topic and be open to changing their minds as they listen to their peers' arguments.
What is philosophical chairs?
500
This activity involves teams searching and finding information or artifacts.
What is a scavenger hunt?
500
This strategy is good for getting students to get information down to the essentials.
What are summaries?
500
In Amanda's class this activity is known as "moscas."
What are games/fly-swatters?
500
SONAR stands for this.
What is the School of Natural Resources?
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