Interactive Learning: Engaging Strategies for Student Participation

1. Level 2 PowerPoint Training June 2013

2. BRAINSTORMING • Use inking in word to collect ideas from students. • Use a thought-provoking question, an image, or simply a word. • Student responses can be saved with the PowerPoint or discarded when the file is closed.

3. What is the best way to encourage students to participate in class?

4. What’s happening?

6. WHITE SCREEN • You can do black screen too! • Select from the menu at the bottom left of the screen. • Information is not saved with the PowerPoint • Good for a quick explanation or drawing. i.e. What are the parts of a fish?

7. FILL IN THE BLANK • Requires you to create the slide prior to the lesson. • Useful for review of key terms, drills, or “Cloze” procedure.

8. Complete the Poem Roses are _______________. Violets are ______________. Using the inking in PowerPoint is _________. I can do it; so can _________.

9. DISCUSSION STARTERS • Place an image, graph, chart, quote, etc. on the slide. • Leave room on the slide for clarifications, notes, and insightful comments

10. Gabriel GarcíaMárquez “Un hombre sólotienederecho a mirar a otrohaciaabajo, cuando ha de ayudarle a levantarse.” A man only has the right to look down at another when he helps him to lift himself up.

11. GRAPHIC ORGANIZERS • Use SmartArt or drawing tools to create graphic organizers that can be filled out during a lesson. • Student responses can be saved or discarded. • Copies of PowerPoint notes provided to students can be completed by students in “real time.”

12. Liturgy of the Word

13. The Writing Process -- TOWER Topic:

14. Español Portuguese