Student Contributor: E. Grant
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Checking in with your students consistently after introducing a lesson to them can be extremely helpful in keeping students on track, accountable, and engaged. Students may be distracted or zoned out but by seeing where everyone is at and asking people to give examples, other students are forced to snap back into their learning.<\/p>\n
It’s helpful to tell your students that you will be checking in with them and in how long so that they can better keep themselves accountable, and even using a timer during this process can come in handy. You also want to make sure to be consistent with your check-ins and how you facilitate them, because if you are only engaging certain students during this process then it loses its effectiveness. When I first started using check-ins, I would only call on the students who raised their hands and I quickly saw how this didn’t engage the whole class. When I started calling on other students (giving them the option to pass or ask a friend for help) I saw much more how beneficial these check-ins were in getting the whole class on pace and involved in discussion.<\/p>\n
Check-In's fall in the supportive phase because they are supporting students along the process of their learning and behavior. You're helping them stay on task and focus on the assignment and conversations you want them engaged in. It relates to preventative by also preventing some of these actions but is more used in the moment of the learning or when you can tell the class need to be pulled back together. It's in the teacher-directed theory of influence because the teacher is expected to lead these discussions and pull the class together rather than having the student lead themselves or decide when they want to come back together. It's a bit collaborative in having students give their examples and guide each other rather than the teacher always doing this process.<\/p>\n
More Information –
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