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Author Hirst-Loucks, Carolyn

Title Serious Fun : Practical Strategies to Motivate and Engage Students
Published Hoboken : Taylor and Francis, 2013

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Description 1 online resource (269 pages)
Series Eye on education
Contents Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication; Table of Contents; About the Authors; Acknowledgments; What Is Serious Fun in the Classroom?; Why Infuse Fun into Something as Serious as School?; 1. What Is Serious Fun in the Classroom All About?; The Seriously Fun Human Brain; If It's Good Enough for Them; The Mental and Physical Health Benefits of a Seriously Fun Classroom; Music to Our Ears (and Minds); The Educator's Responsibility; 2. What Does the Research Say About Serious Fun?; Some History and Background; The Present and the Future of American Schools
Practical ApplicationsSerious Fun Connected to the Common Core Standards; The Change Process; 3. How Does Serious Fun Fit into the 21st-Century Classroom?; Making Fun an Instructional Priority; Assessment Possibilities; Seriously Fun Strategies; 4. How Do I Bring Serious Fun into My Classroom?; Classroom Contest; Consensogram; Defend or Dispute; First Word; Let's Get Ready to ... LEARN!; Spend a Buck; Two Truths and a Fib; Vanity Me; 5. Seriously Fun Strategies for Getting Ready to Learn; Block Out; Color-Coding; Exquisite Corpse; Find Someone Who/People Search/Treasure Hunt; For the Role of
Grouping StudentsHi, Mac; Humdinger; I Have, Who Has?; Jigsaw; Key Punch; Learning Partners; MI Challenge; Puzzling Connections; Teammates Consult; Uncommon Commonalities; The Wizard; Words Alive; Your Sentence Is Up; 6. Seriously Fun Strategies for Class-Building and Team-Building; Carousel; Final Word; Four Corners; Graffiti Wall; Hit the Target; Inside-Outside Circle; Juggling Our Learning; Paired Verbal Fluency (PVF); Racking Up the Points; Say Something; 7. Seriously Fun Strategies for Processing Content; Baggage Claim; Give One, Get One; The Laugh-In Party; Line-Up/Wrap; Memory Mingle
The Mixing BowlMusical Bags; Round the Room and Back Again (RTRABA); Stand Up, Sit Down, Write, Write, Write; Stepping Out of Line; 8. Seriously Fun Strategies for Movement; 2-1 (3-2-1, 5-3-1, etc.); Aha! Slips; Bag of Tricks; Beach Ball Review; Bright Idea; Exit Card/Ticket Out the Door; Focused Reading; Give Me Five; Keeper/Leaper; Links to Learning; MIP/MVP; Six-Word Memoirs/Six-Word Stories; Teenie Tweet; Think-Pair-Share (TPS); Twenty-Second Speech; 9. Seriously Fun Strategies for Closure; Out Into the Real World (Business); Getting Out the Info (English Language Arts: Literature)
Magnetic Word Poetry (English Language Arts: Speech/Communication) 103Tom Swifties (English Language Arts: Writing and Composition); Real-Life Fair: Career Exploration and Household Budgeting (Family and Consumer Science); I Am? (Health); Personal Dictionaries (Information Literacy); I'm Away on a Business Trip (Foreign Language); Math Munchers (Mathematics: Algebra); "Vi"ing for Attention and Learning (Mathematics: Geometry); Roller Derby (Mathematics: Probability and Statistics); Team Rhythmic Dictation (Music); Dynamic Duos (Physical Education)
Summary Discover how to improve student engagement, foster collaboration, and boost achievement with the power of fun. This book provides dozens of instructional strategies that can be implemented immediately into any classroom to increase student motivation and foster love of learning. Backed up with brain-based research, you can use these techniques, activities, and resources for:- priming students to learn at the beginning of class- promoting higher-level thinking and creativity- helping students master critical concepts and skills - without stress!- clas
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Subject Learning.
Motivation in education.
Activity programs in education.
Learning
Activity programs in education
Learning
Motivation in education
Form Electronic book
Author Loucks, Kim P
ISBN 9781317918226
1317918223
9781317918233
1317918231
9781306115100
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