Up-Grading Your MRS Toolkit 8+

1. Up-Grading Your MRS Toolkit 8+ Let Us Upgrade YA

2. Response Card After watching the video… Which multiple response strategy would you use to foster student engagement and why?

3. Multiple Response Strategies (M.R.S) Multiple response strategies are techniques designed to elicit responses from most of the students in a class numerous times during a class period.

4. 8 Multiple Response Strategies (M.R.S.) • Response Card • Whip-around • Modified Whip-around • Think-pair- share • Table Talk • Quick Response • Oral/Choral Response • White Boards Let Us UPGRADE YA!!! Numbered Heads Quick-Draws Head to Head plus

5. Response Card (M.R.S.) A response card requires a student to write a brief answer to a question.

6. Response Card • This can be used throughout your entire lesson. • Each response is meant to be QUICK! • Can be used as a formative assessment or as a Demonstration of Learning (DOL). • Can invite individual oral response, pair share &/or Table Talk

7. Response Card Upgrade:Total Participation Technique • Let’s make and take!!!

8. Whip-Around (M.R.S.) Requires a quick response from each student. Students are given up to a minute to formulate an answerand then a few seconds to respond in succession.

9. Modified WHIP-AROUND (M.R.S.) Similar to the Whip-around, except students with similar answers sit down once their answer is given by another student.

10. Core Beliefs • Our main purpose is to improve student academic achievement. • Effective instruction makes the most difference in student academic achievement. • There is no excuse for poor quality instruction. • With our help, at-risk students will achieve at the same rate as non-risk students. • Staff members must have a commitment to children AND a commitment to the pursuit of excellence.

11. Think-Pair-Shareaka ..share with your neighbor ! (M.R.S.) Strategy used to promote purposeful and relevant conversations between two or three students.

12. Think-Pair-Share • Encourages listening skills • Gives time for processing information & verbalizing learning • It must be timed and include a specific outcome • Can be written • It’s a good idea to state “When time is up, I expect you to have _____________”

13. Table Talk (M.R.S.) Response strategy for a small group (3-5) that focuses student discussions.

14. Quick Response (M.R.S.) Response strategy used to encourage all students to process information, formulate their responses, and provide a quick response when called upon.

15. White Boards (M.R.S.) Response strategy that supports multiple learning modalities (visual, kinesthetic, auditory) while teacher provides immediate feedback during a check for understanding. White Board Make & Take

16. Oral/Choral Response (M.R.S.) High energy, fun, response strategy, requiring students to respond in unison.

17. Good Engagement

18. Let Us Upgrade Ya…Up-grade #1: Numbered Heads Together

19. Let Us Upgrade YA…Up-grade #2:Quick-Draws • Select a “big idea” or major concept within your lesson. • Ask students to reflect on the meaning of the concept and create a visual image that represents that concept. • Have students share (use turn and talk or table talk). • Have one member from the group present another’s drawing and explain what it represents.

20. Let Us Upgrade YA…Up-grade #3Head to Head Two students stand up to answer the question, the student who gets the correct answer first, remains standing and selects a new challenger

21. Demonstration of Learning (DOL): Include your responses on your second index card…this is your exit ticket. • List the eight multiple response strategies (M.R.S) • List one “Upgrade” you would like to introduce to your colleagues & why