How To: Get Students to Use New Skills | Edutopia - 0 views
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let students create their own labs to test hypotheses
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Integrate lots of interviewing into a history curriculum and have students compare stories they hear. Add a five-minute reading component to journal-writing time, emphasizing to students that real authors share their writing and need to have a sense of their audience.
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Performances, presentations, displays, publications, and entries into contests are essential for student buy-in. ULS's hula class spends the semester gearing up for a final performance, and Hamilton's seventh graders forget how hard they're working on their writing when they focus on creating podcasts. "When I tell students they are going to create a podcast of their own stories, they get excited," she says. "This buy-in from the students gives them a purpose to learn new skills and a reason to come to school."
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podcasting helps generate student buy-in...if it is their own stories- that could be interesting: if their stories are not off topic. ;-)
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Core Questions are these what we call essential questions?
