Student Strategies For Active Participation Strategy: ELL Students

Active Participation Strategy # 1: (Student Questions)

It is no longer acceptable to just lecture your students during direct teaching. This is especially true when dealing with third graders who must be actively engaged to hold their focus on what you are trying to teach. In my lesson I chose the whole class active participation strategy of student questioning as my first strategy. By asking my students questions it allowed me an opportunity to assess their prior knowledge. This also allowed the students to engage in the learning. Because I chose an example that they could draw on their own life experiences by asking about a trip they may have taken to a local lake it gave them a scaffold of prior knowledge to hang the new concept and build on (Lorain, n.d.).

ELL students in particular benefit from the implementation of student questioning during direct teaching as a strategy for active participation because it is so successful at activating prior knowledge. Since activating prior learning is a key component in

By utilizing the strategy of research using a list of approved online sources the whole class was able to determine how they learned the material and select the material that catered to their individual learning style. My lesson plan had numerous selections that catered to the multiple intelligences. The students chose whether they wanted to learn a song or what video to watch and they could mix and match to maximize their knowledge of the concept. The teacher could select sources that she knew the crucial information would be covered no matter what source the students chose. When we allow the students to take control of how the learn the content we satisfy their instinct to explore and develop their curiosity of learning (International Society for Technology in Education,