Total Participation Techniques
Making Every Student an Active Learner at Lady Bird Johnson
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Content/Language Objective
Teachers will develop a TPT mindset by participating and planning to use TPTs in their classrooms this week.
What are Total Participation Techniques?
TPTs are teaching techniques that allow for all students to demonstrate, at the same time, active participation and cognitive engagement in the topic being studied.
What is a TPT mindset?
Randomize and Rotate
- Number off from 1-5 at your table.
- Write your number down on a post-it note.
- You will keep this number for the remainder of the training.
Quick Write: How can TPTs help with classroom management?
Use this sentence stem:
- TPTs can help with classroom management because...
- In addition, ...
- Also, ...
You have one minute to write down your thoughts.
We are going to couple this Quick Write with a Networking Session.
- Find someone you haven’t spoken to.
- Share with each other why you think TPTs can help with classroom management.
You have two minutes to network and share your TPTs.
Complete your quick write with the following stem:
- Finally...
Let's Spin the Wheel
- We are going to spin a wheel of fortune (or misfortune).
- The person with the number selected will stand up and share their response.
A to Z Summary
- During a lesson, give each student a letter of the alphabet. (These can be cards that they receive as they walk in the door.)
- Avoid letters Q, X and Z or give flexibility.
- The student will write a one-sentence summary of the topic, lesson or text and the sentence must begin with the assigned letter.
Share something you wrote down using one of the following sentence stems:
A positive of utilizing TPTs is...
A challenge of utilizing TPTs is...
A question I still have about TPTs is...
Let's Roll the Die!
- We are going to roll a virtual die.
- The person with the number rolled will stand up and share their response.
Pick a Card, Any Card!
- We are going to pick a random card.
- The person with the number on the card will stand up and share their response.
TPTs Used in this Presentation
Quick Writes
- How it works:
– Select a prompt that you would like students to address.
– Give students a specified amount of time to collect their thoughts and jot down a response (3-5 minutes).
– Follow this up with a Pair-Share, Networking Session, or Chalkboard Splash.
- How to Ensure Higher-Order Thinking
– Ask students to make connections between the concepts and their effect on the world around them. Use wide-open questions.*
*A Q-chart is helpful in formulating these types of questions.
Networking Sessions
- How it works:
– Prepare 1-4 prompts or questions. Ask students to reflect on or quick-write responses to the prompts.
– Ask students to find someone with whom they have not yet spoken that day and discuss their responses to a teacher-selected prompt.
– After a predetermined amount of time, ring a bell or signal the class to find someone else to whom they haven’t spoken that day.
– With their new partner, ask students to respond to a different teacher-selected prompt. Repeat the process until all prompts have been discussed.
- How to Ensure Higher-Order Thinking
– Use prompts and questions that require higher-order thinking. Go beyond factual questions and instead delve into the implications of the concepts for the world around us. Provide students the opportunity to personalize the responses by applying them in their own worlds.
One-Word Summaries
How it works: The student reads a text and highlights or underlines key words, also called “magnet words”. Using the identified key words, the student selects one word which best summarizes the big idea of the text. The word may be written on a whiteboard or index card along with a brief explanation of why that word was chosen. Students could collaborate in pairs or trios. For closure, the students tell their “magnet words.”
Additional ideas could include:
Students can brainstorm a list of words in a group and have discussions while they defend their words.
Rather than have students write about each of the words, have them write about one that provides a rationale for the main idea or theme of the text.
Short phrases can be used rather than one-word.
Use white boards or an ipad app to share their chosen word and rationale. Students can compare each others magnet words.
How to ensure higher order thinking: The activity requires the students to evaluate and to synthesize. The teacher can identify a word which appears repeatedly among the student choices and ask for explanation. The teacher might also look for unexpected “magnet word” outliers and ask for explanation.