Collaboration
Keeping middle schoolers engaged can be a tough job! If you need some ideas to get your class up and moving and excited about what they are learning, then this is the capsule for you!
It has everything you need, from step by step tips to graphic organizers to project templates, to keep your middle school students engaged and working collaboratively throughout the year.
Capsule Includes:
5 Categories of Engagement and Collaboration Ideas: Introduction of a topic, developing an understanding, digging deeper, reviewing, and a bonus section.
Detailed Instructions: The overview, purpose, materials needed, and step by step instructions to help you implement in your classroom without a lot of stress and prepping. There are even some Tech Tips if you are looking to use some of the strategies for remote learning!
Collaborative Graphic Organizers: 10 Graphic Organizers to help your students work together and organize their ideas.
If you are looking to add more collaboration to your classroom, and want step by step strategies on HOW to do it, then this resource was made just for you!
Look at you wanting to get your students collaborating!! We all know that collaborative activities that are active, social, engaging, and student-owned lead to deeper learning, but a lot of times we are left wondering WHAT exactly to do.
Included in the Download:
1. 12 low prep, super easy to implement strategy cards. These strategies are the top 12 classroom favorites (I was going to only do 10, but we couldn't narrow it down, so you get the top 12!) Each card includes when to use it, materials and procedures. Print these, put them on a ring, and use them as you plan your lessons.
Collaboration Checklist: Step by step guide to help you implement collaborative activities in your classroom.
Socratic Seminars are by far my student's favorite activity! The very first time I do this each year, the student immediately ask when we can do it again. They love being able to take charge of the conversations and analyze text on a deeper level. Plus, it's something different!
This download includes everything I use to introduce seminars to my students:
Expectations, Goals, Etiquette: Colorful Google Slides presentation that introduces the concept of seminars and the overall goal. The slides also teach the students the basic etiquette of seminar.
Student Discussion Prompts: Since we can not assume students automatically know how to talk to each other, these prompts give them a great guide for talking respectfully to each other.
(printable PDF included. The google slides version can also be printed as a poster set!)
Reflection Prompts: After seminar have students reflect on their performance and what they learned with these 6 discussion prompts.
(printable PDF included)
Generic Discussion Questions: If you have a text, and do not know where to start, these discussion questions are a great jumping off point for conducting your seminar!
(teacher PDF printable included)