Test Lessons Debrief [Ep 287]

About this episode

The episode discusses practical classroom strategies for achieving 100% engagement based on the authors' experiences with the methods from the book '100% Engagement'.

🔗 Grab our FREE 100% Engagement Listening Guide to get even more out of this episode! What if 100% engagement isn’t about doing more, but about choosing differently? After two episodes with the authors of 100% Engagement, this is our real classroom debrief. We share what happened when we actually tried the strategies, from reworking Book Snaps to spark better conversations to adapting a musical chairs–style activity into a fast-paced fiction preview. We unpack engagement vs. compliance, small...

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Hosts: Marie Morris, Amanda Cardenas

Topics covered

• engagement
• classroom strategies
• teaching methods
• Book Snaps
• fiction preview

Keywords

• engagement
• compliance
• teaching strategies
• Book Snaps
• musical chairs
• fiction preview

Mentioned in this episode

Books & works: 100% Engagement

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