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5 Tips for Helping a Student Find the Right Book

5 Tips for Helping a Student Find the Right Book | Eclectic Technology | Scoop.it
Research shows that children want assistance with finding a reading book. While your students search the stacks, here's some helpful tips for teachers.
Beth Dichter's insight:

Here are five great tips for helping students find books - a great find for librarians and for teachers in elementary school. The short hand version of the tips is below and additional information is located in the post..

1. Get to know the student

2. Experiment

3. Exposure

4. Permission to abandon the book

5. Time to look.

The visual above is not found on the site, but is found on Edutopia's Facebook page and also on Flickr.

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Seven Ways to Increase Student Engagement in the Classroom

Seven Ways to Increase Student Engagement in the Classroom | Eclectic Technology | Scoop.it
Beth Dichter's insight:

Are you looking for ways to get your students more engaged in your classroom? This post includes some background information on student engagement including:

* Five levels of student engagement that include authentic engagement and rebellion (with three in between)

* Three ways to measure student engagement

* Seven ways to increase student engagement (which includes a visual, part of which is shown above)

This post provides a quick review on material that may be new to some, and this great visual to help you recall some ideas that you may want to try in your class. 

Kathy Lynch's curator insight, September 10, 2014 9:09 PM

Love it~ Using it tomorrow. Thx Beth Dichter

María Dolores Díaz Noguera's curator insight, September 11, 2014 11:33 AM

Seven Ways to Increase Student Engagement in the Classroom

Mary Starry's curator insight, September 13, 2014 9:38 PM

Great graphic that summarizes things we've all heard before, but helps keep them in mind so we really do utilize them with students.

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Five Powerful Questions You Can Ask Students (Visual)

Five Powerful Questions You Can Ask Students (Visual) | Eclectic Technology | Scoop.it
Beth Dichter's insight:

This visual is based on an article published by Edutopia, 5 Powerful Questions Teachers Can Ask Students. You can access the article through the link which provides some additional information. If you read the comment section you will also find some additional resources related to questioning.

Kathy Lynch's curator insight, September 28, 2014 1:06 PM

Thx Beth Dichter!

Tony Guzman's curator insight, September 29, 2014 9:24 AM

Good list of questions to help get the student voice active in your classroom.

Frédéric Falisse's curator insight, October 10, 2014 6:51 AM

Sans questions pas de raisonnement. 

D'ailleurs, qu'est ce que la réflexion si ce n'est l'enchaînement de questions?

Et l'intelligence ne serait elle pas simplement l'enchaînement de bonne questions?