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Activating Strategies PD in Your Pocket
Activating Strategies PD in Your Pocket
Activating Strategies PD in Your Pocket
Activating
Strategies
PD in Your Pocket Series
Learning Target
I can apply my knowledge of
activating strategies to
enhance my instruction by
linking/building background
knowledge to guide student
learning.
Anticipation Guide of Your Knowledge
Before After
T/F T/F
A bellringer is an activating strategy.
An activating strategy can link to prior knowledge or
build background knowledge.
A video is not an activating strategy.
An activator should always be 3-5 minutes.
Activators should be mentally and emotionally
engaging.
An activator is a warm up activity that reviews the
previous lessons content.
What are activating
strategies?
instruction?
❏ Assesses prior
knowledge
❏ Drives context
and relevance
of the lesson
❏ Identify
Students: vocabulary
❏ Provides opportunities for students to deficits for new
link and/or build on prior knowledge material
❏ Promotes higher order thinking
Which One Doesn’t Belong
Anticipation Guide Bellringer (review)
LINK BUILD
Brainstorm WordSplash
Categorize Anticipation Guide
Give One / Get One Multiple Meaning
Words
Link
Anticipation Guide
Activate prior
knowledge BEFORE
the lesson, and
then follow-up with
summarizing new
knowledge AFTER
the lesson.
Link
before link
WordSplash
plan
beginning
ACTIVATING STRATEGIES
vocabulary background
knowledge
hook
new learning
Link
Video with Questioning
John Doe
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for the photos