“Hey Hey!” “Listen Up!”
This is a verbal “call and response” tool. Teacher says, “Hey Hey!” then students respond with “Listen Up!” *Clap Clap*. This tool is used to get students’ attention.
Collaborative & Teacher Directed
Reviewing Expectations
Reviewing expectations is a tool that helps you confirm students know what is expected of them, reminds the students what they should be focusing on, and allows the students to take ownership and responsibly of other own actions. It is simply just reviewing what expectations are before an activity or group work assignment. It helps students be on task during the task and maximize time for student learning.
The Learning Pit
The Learning Pit is a tool that clarifies to students that in order to experience deep learning, it will be difficult and it is okay to struggle. It is a picture that gives students a visual of how learning happens. They will learn that it is okay to fail, struggle, and have to work at a new skill before fully understanding and succeeding.
Kindness Chain
The kindness chain is a way to represent all of the kindness the students have done throughout the year. Writing down all of the kindness the has spread in the classroom builds that community in the classroom as well as supports the spread of kindness.
3 Before Me
Three before me is all about students being able to independently ask three peers within the classroom Before going to ask their teacher. students may use the strategy when asking for help in repeating directions as well as other general questions that they may have before confronting the teacher.
Count Down & Pick Up
When a task needs to be done, count down from a reasonable number, once the counter reaches zero, pick the student’s spirits up by congratulating them and thanking them for their cooperation.
Signal Interference
Signal interference is one of those tools that is a non-verbal way to correct your students when they are doing an appropriate behavior within your classroom. This tool does not cause any distractions towards other students and it is meant to only target one or multiple specific students who are having difficulty that need to be corrected. What’s great about the strategy is that peers around them will not be distracted by this corrective tool.
Voice Level
Voice Level is a technique that helps students to visually see where the noise level should be. At any given time of the day, students should be able to know where the noise level should be- silent, whisper, table talk, or presenter.
SLANT
SLANT is a tool for getting student attention. In a call-and-response style, the teacher raises their hand and shouts, “slant!”. The students all respond, “slant!”, and then give the teacher full attention and a zero voice level.
News Teams
This tool is used to pick students in their pods/table groups randomly and assign them roles to prevent any arguments and ensure effective collaboration.
