Beyond Bingo: Activities to Increase Student Engagement
Format
Individual Presentation
First Presenter's Institution
Warren Woods Schools
Second Presenter's Institution
Best Brains Bloomfield Hills Learning Center
Third Presenter's Institution
NA
Fourth Presenter's Institution
NA
Fifth Presenter's Institution
NA
Location
Session 2 (Scarbrough 4)
Strand #1
Academic Achievement & School Leadership
Relevance
Presenter will provide.
Brief Program Description
Help motivate your students to increase their understanding of what they are learning by getting them involved in the process. This interactive session lets the attendee experience learning as their students will as the different activities are examined and modeled in a variety of subject matters. These learning activities create a greater understanding of the material for the students because the students have become part of the lesson. The attendee will leave with at least a half-dozen different activities that can be adapted into any subject area and immediately implemented into the classroom. The presenters have created new activities that have been tested in their classrooms. These activities produce a higher engagement level in students! Come have fun and learn along the way!
Summary
Help motivate your students to increase their understanding of what they are learning by getting them involved in the process. This interactive session lets the attendee experience learning as their students will as the different activities are examined and modeled in a variety of subject matters. These learning activities create a greater understanding of the material for the students because the students have become part of the lesson. The attendee will leave with at least a half-dozen different activities that can be adapted into any subject area and immediately implemented into the classroom. The presenters have created new activities that have been tested in their classrooms. These activities produce a higher engagement level in students! Come have fun and learn along the way!
Evidence
Presenter will provide.
Biographical Sketch
Dawn has been teaching mathematics and science for 18 years in the public schools. Prior to that, she was an engineer in the auto industry for 9 years. Dawn’s passion is teaching and she loves being able to help teachers methods to engage students.
Caryn Ross was a French and Language Arts teacher for 25 years at both the high school and middle school levels. She has a Master’s and Specialist’s degree in Educational Leadership and it was through these degrees that she started connecting data and research into her classroom and why she designed school-wide interventions to improve student learning. Through research and assessment comparisons, she believes strongly in the necessity of Active Learning for students to connect with and engage in their learning. She currently owns a learning center in Bloomfield Hills, MI.
Presentation Year
2019
Start Date
3-4-2019 1:15 PM
End Date
3-4-2019 2:30 PM
Recommended Citation
Gafa, Dawn and Ross, Caryn, "Beyond Bingo: Activities to Increase Student Engagement" (2019). National Youth Advocacy and Resilience Conference. 138.
https://digitalcommons.georgiasouthern.edu/nyar_savannah/2019/2019/138
Beyond Bingo: Activities to Increase Student Engagement
Session 2 (Scarbrough 4)
Help motivate your students to increase their understanding of what they are learning by getting them involved in the process. This interactive session lets the attendee experience learning as their students will as the different activities are examined and modeled in a variety of subject matters. These learning activities create a greater understanding of the material for the students because the students have become part of the lesson. The attendee will leave with at least a half-dozen different activities that can be adapted into any subject area and immediately implemented into the classroom. The presenters have created new activities that have been tested in their classrooms. These activities produce a higher engagement level in students! Come have fun and learn along the way!