engaging students in learning

Engaging Students in Learning

Bag TalkPresenters:Alaka DasBarbara Ferrante

ObjectivesParticipants will engage in learning activities that: • Promote student engagement

• Provide “multiple entry points” for students

• Encourage students to reflect on what they have done and what they have learned

“Sticky” Self- Assessment

1. I can promote student engagement.

2. I can provide multiple entry points for students.

3. I can encourage students to reflect on what they have done and what they have learned. 

Agenda• “Sticky” Self Assessment

• “Bag Talk” with Addition Strategies

• Problem Solving

• “Bag Talk” with 3c

• Implications for Instruction

Grade 2Addition StrategiesGo Math Unit 2 Chapter 4

Addition Strategies “Bag Talk”

In Groups of 4:

1. Choose a “strategy” card.2. Think about the addition strategy

represented on the card.3. Take notes on the post-it behind the

card.4. Take turns explaining the strategy

to your group. (Be prepared to ask and/or answer questions about the strategy)

5. Return cards to the bag.

Regroup with Base Ten Blocks

Partial Sums

Partial Sums

Make a Ten

Make a Ten with Base Ten Blocks

Make a Ten

25 + 48

23

2+

23 + 50 = 73

Open Number Line: 67 + 25

+10 +10 +5

67 77 87 92

From Chapter 7 - Page 198Solve using at least 2 strategies

One strategy you know very well and one you just learned from the bags

Solve using at least 2 strategies

Share with a partner:1. One strategy you used2. Why you chose the strategy3. How the strategy helped you

After Partners Share:Discuss with partner how the strategies you shared were alike and/or different

Whole Group Share:Teacher chooses students to share (Scaffold)

Bag TalkHow did “Bag Talk” help you solve the problem?

At Your Table:1. Discuss2. Write your response on a post-it3. Place post-it on outside of the

bag.(Write your name on back of

post-it.)

Bag Talk About 3cIn Groups of 4:1. Choose a card.2. Reflect on the sentence or phrase

(refer to the text and today’s learning)3. Share your thoughts with your group.4. Write a statement on a post-it that

synthesizes all of your groups’ thoughts.5. Sign your names on the post-it.6. Place the post-it on the outside of the “Bag.”

How did today’s strategies “Engage” Students? (from 3c)

1. Students are developing their understanding through what they do. 2. A lesson usually has a discernible structure: a beginning, a middle, and an end, with scaffolding provided by the teacher or by the activities themselves. 3. Students are encouraged to reflect on what they have done and what they have learned 4. It is essential that students be challenged to be “minds-on.”

Implications for Instruction

• What was the purpose of synthesizing the 4 statements and placing the post it on the bag?

• How could you use today’s learning in your classroom?

• How could you use “Bag Talk” with last week’s Close Read (“Eleven”)?

Revisit “Sticky” Self- Assessment

1. I can promote student engagement.

2. I can provide multiple entry points for students.

3. I can encourage students to reflect on what they have done and what they have learned.