Walking into school and waiting for your day to begin may be sluggish for some students. So, we reached out to our dear friend Karie (@legitkfrauey) who shared this ⚡️EPIC⚡️ tweet!
Meet Karie!
Karie has spent a decade in the classroom and 7th graders have had her heart for the last nine years. Currently she is hybrid teaching both Language Arts and Social Studies and loves the challenge of taking her lessons and making them #InterACTIVE. Karie is a Flipgrid Ambassador and #MIEExpert. You can follow her on Twitter @legitkfrauey!
In this blog post, you’ll learn and receive:
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⭐️ How Karie makes attendance interACTIVE!
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InterACTIVE Attendance!
Virtual learning ISN'T fun… I mean, don’t get me wrong -- I do love teaching with my pups, but I do miss the kiddos. One of the ways that I have learned how to hook my kiddos and get them excited for the day is with my interactive attendance slides.
Interactive attendance slides?! WHAT?! YES!! Let me tell you how this came about!
I started doing just standard attendance slides using PearDeck (an AMAZING interactive tool, highly recommend!) -- students would click the link to access the PearDeck (in teacher-paced) and they would move the icon over their number & that would indicate they were present.
But this got boring-- obviously. SOOOO, I began to experiment with different types.
We made the PearDeck Pear, Peary a turkey!
LOOK at those cute turkeys!
We also experimented with This or That slides…
And I began to see MORE students were present for class & were engaging with me. I always tied the attendance into the lesson and used it as a way to chat with the students.
I got my BIGGEST excitement with my hidden picture attendance slides…
To hold students accountable for not just DOING the attendance but not doing the work; in their classwork for the day-- I incorporated a question that tied in with the hidden picture. (How many Ms. Frauey’s are there? What was Ms. Frauey doing?)
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Enjoy and thank you for reading!
—Karie ❤️
For more tips, tricks and lesson ideas for making learning more interACTIVE, check out our books The InterACTIVE Class and Flipgrid in the InterACTIVE Class on Amazon!
