TOOLBOX Ideas

FOUR Corners 4 Corners

Chunking

Group Assignments: ** ensure more engagement : recorder (write it), reporter(share it),
Facilitator (ensure that conversation is on going and productive)
Movement Activities/Strategies:
Learning Centers
Gallery Walk Can also post pictures and have students write words related to them, return to
desk and write about picture or infer and create a story or create questions and
move into small groups to discuss them.
Charades / Pictionary
Agreement Circles
Inner Outer Circles
getting up to get supplies/move to a partner/other side of room
Music
walk-talk-decide
Classroom Mingle
Table Tent: with questions, can be :
a) a beginning of the year activity
b) a review
Tactile
Card Sort or Card Sort
Technology
Fly Swatter Game
Google classroom
Google Voice
Kahoot
Music
Video
QR Codes
Chromebook-PBL/Research
Twitter/Tweet Up
Online "Games": quizlet, Quia
Padlet
Flipped Learning w/ YouTube or ScreenCast
Turn-it-in

Flippity Random Name Picker, gameshow templates, badge trackers, progress indicators,
flashcards
Timer

Flubaroo
Blogs
EdModo
Docent.edu
Plicker
NewsELA (ask Nick S.)
WolframAlpha
Poll everywhere
Animaker
Differentiation
Flexible Grouping
Choice Boards / menu of options for formative assessments
Product choice
Retake policy for assessments
Formative Assessments
3-2-1
White Board WipeOut
Discussion
Accountable Discussions
Socratic Seminar
Inner outer circles
Jigsaw
Strategies during Lessons
Stop-and-jot
Think-pair-share
turn and talk
Graphic Organizers
Activate Prior Knowledge
Bellringers
Verbal chants
Visual reviews
Journals
Pass out exit slips and discuss
Review quiz
KWL
Practice Problems
Discuss Homework
Hypothesizing based on prior learning

Closing
Exit Slips
Many Closure Strategies here (journal entry, reflection, 3-2-1, whip around)
Fist to Five
Thumbs Up/Down
Homework problems with opportunity for questions
One thing you learned / one question you have
Critique of shared work
Later gator exit tickets (answer a question related to the day)
3-2-1 (Three sentence summary, Two I wonder statements, One prediction)
Start work on assignment
Summary discussion
This is what I did today, this is what I will do tomorrow, this is what I still need clarification on
Claim, evidence, reasoning/analysis paragraph
Synthesis activities

Absences
Structure in place at the team level for students that miss
Folders with materials for each day