HERDING CATS
Tier 1 Classroom Strategies
cowboys herding cats
WHAT WILL WE LEARN IN THIS SESSION?
- Importance of roles in the classroom
- Ways to organize your classroom so students do what they should, when they should
- Ways to deliver more engaging lessons so that students' brains can learn and remember the information you teach them
- Resource exploration
- Q & A
The Barbell Factory
ORGANIZING YOUR CLASSROOM
PARTNER DISCUSSION
- Scan the document. Notice any links between students' (mis)behaviors and procedures that you may/may not have clearly communicated?
- Talk with your partner to learn a new procedure (or two). How do they clearly communicate and reinforce the procedure?
Attention Getting Signals: Practice
"CHUNK & CHECK" STRATEGY
- "Chunk"
- a 2-10 minute "chunk" of information or learning
- "Check"
- ​make students SAY, WRITE, or DO something so that you can see or hear what they have understand so far of the "chunk" you just taught
- say something
- write/draw something
- do/make something
- ​make students SAY, WRITE, or DO something so that you can see or hear what they have understand so far of the "chunk" you just taught
What's next?
- BT meetings on Monday's
- Department Chair Informal Feedback
- Student Feedback
- Self-reflection