Making Learning Fun and Feedback Useful Facilitator Guide (pdf)
Making Learning Fun and Feedback Useful Slide Deck (link)
Making Learning Fun & Feedback Useful Slide Deck (ppt)
Making Learning Fun and Feedback Useful Synchronous Training
Overview
Making Learning Fun and Feedback Useful is an interactive synchronous training for teachers. It provides helpful ways to keep students engaged in digital learning and gives educators ways to offer relevant feedback.
This is a facilitator guide for Making Learning Fun and Feedback Useful synchronous training.
Slide Number | Information |
Slide 1-Prior to attending session | Assignment prior to attending session - send out to participants with Zoom link and registration confirmation: create a Flipgrid entry introducing yourself and sharing your initial thoughts on why you decided to participate in this training Facilitators-if you don’t already have a Pear Deck account, you will need to sign up for one to access the interactive slides. Once you have an account or run the Pear Deck add-on, you will access this presentation through Pear Deck. It will create a session join code for students to use; slide 7 has more information. |
Slide 2-Create your Flipgrid account and delete this slide | When you create the Flipgrid, the presenter should create their own video to model what you would like for participants and start off the participation. |
Slide 3-Flipgrid Introductions | Display in initial minutes of session so participants can do this as they log in; prior to the class participants have created a Flipgrid entry introducing themselves and sharing initial thoughts on why they decided to participate in this training |
Slide 4-Learning Targets Success Criteria | Review to begin session |
Slides 5-Welcome | Introduce presenters, give a timeline for the session. Add a photo or Bitmoji of yourself to personalize this slide. |
Slide 6-Rationale | Share and continue |
Slide 7-Pear Deck | Add in code for Pear Deck to slide. Once the slide deck is open click the “add on” button and click Pear Deck (you may have to add it to your options by clicking get add ons and searching for Pear Deck). Once you have Pear Deck activated click the start lesson button and a code to join will be on the screen for participants. You can also get a link to put in the chat to make joining easier. |
Slide 8-PearDeck Stress Check | Stress Check 🍐 This is a Pear Deck Draggable™ Slide. 🍐 To edit the type of question, go back to the "Ask Students a Question" in the Pear Deck sidebar. |
Slide 9-Benefits of Pear Deck |
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Slide 10-"Never Have I Ever" | Click on hyperlink to launch the Never Have I Ever game. https://drive.google.com/file/d/16Kcd6pX5pqVvWZ6LUMsXpPaXMhHOPUUE/view?usp=sharing |
Slide 11-Pear Deck | Approaching a Problem Exploring different approaches to a problem is an important creative thinking skill. Add your own question to this slide to have students ponder how to approach it. This is particularly good for open-ended problems. For example, asking, “How might we show parents what we learned this year?” will let students share creative ideas for end-of-the-year projects. 🍐 This is a Pear Deck Text Slide 🍐 To edit the type of question, go back to the "Ask Students a Question" in the Pear Deck sidebar. |
Slide 14-Pear Deck Summary | Summarize Have students write a quick, 1-2 sentence summary of the information they’ve just learned. 🍐 This is a Pear Deck Text Slide 🍐 To edit the type of question, go back to the "Ask Students a Question" in the Pear Deck sidebar. |
Slide 15-Engagement impacts student growth | Other examples of practices and their effect size for comparison or more info: |
Slide 16-Meaningful Feedback Myths | Group discussion on common myths related to feedback. Question: If these beliefs are false, what do we know to be true about meaningful feedback? |
Slide 17-Meaningful Feedback | Share. This info will be discussed in the next slide. |
Slide 18-Pear Deck-Agree/Disagree | Following this activity, DISCUSS: what are ways participants are giving personalized feedback to students? How do you see learning or engagement change? Agree or Disagree Use this template to do a quick check of students’ opinions during your lesson. 🍐 This is a Pear Deck Draggable™ Slide. 🍐 To edit the type of question, go back to the "Ask Students a Question" in the Pear Deck sidebar. |
Slide 19-Discussion | Discuss |
Slide 20-Providing Meaningful Feedback | Links embedded with videos showing how to use each |
Slide 21-Pear Deck Make connections | Make Connections Making connections between different concepts is an important thinking skill. Before presenting, fill in the yellow and blue circles with two concepts you are learning about in today’s lesson (or maybe one concept from today and one concept from last week). Ask students to think about what connects the two concepts in the box. Show their responses anonymously on the projector to discuss. 🍐 This is a Pear Deck Drawing Slide 🍐 To edit the type of question, go back to the "Ask Students a Question" in the Pear Deck sidebar. |
Slide 22-Feedback Cycle | Review slide. Ask for participant thoughts. “Next we will be playing a game of Kahoot together. Kahoot can be used as an engaging instructional tool and to assess and provide feedback to learners.” |
Slide 23-Kahoot Game | Tell participants to click the words Kahoot Time and wait for you to give them the game code. You can find this Kahoot.com under the name CSTP Engagement and Feedback. During the Kahoot game, discuss each of the different kinds of questions and talk about how they can be used across curriculum areas. Also as you are talking, discuss how teachers can actually teach through the game by discussing correct and incorrect answers. |
Slide 24-Kahoot Benefits | Review benefits of Kahoot |
Slide 25-Engagement methods | Pose question to the group-they can answer in the chat or call out. |
Slide 26-Engagement strategies | List the engagement strategies used today. |
Slide 27-Pear Deck Temperature Check | Temperature Check Get a sense for how well your lesson resonated with your students, or how engaged they were. 🍐 This is a Pear Deck Draggable™ Slide. 🍐 To edit the type of question, go back to the "Ask Students a Question" in the Pear Deck sidebar |
Slide 28-Pear Deck Real-Life Relevance | Real-Life Relevance Use this template to help students connect the lesson to their own life. Does something from class relate to something they learned in another class? Was something interesting or surprising? Will it be useful to them? Did they learn anything that someone else they know would be interested to hear about? Helping students make those connections will help them retain the information because it becomes more relevant to their lives. 🍐 This is a Pear Deck Drawing Slide 🍐 To edit the type of question, go back to the "Ask Students a Question" in the Pear Deck sidebar. |
Slide 29-Links and Resources | Resources for those who would like to know more! Drop links into the chat. 25 Remote Teaching Tips to Engage Students in Distance Learning Article Link |
Slide 30-Reviewing goals for this session | Review objectives |