Everyone's Invited!: Interactive Strategies that Engage Young Adolescents

This resource allows teachers to: connect students with the curriculum by accessing prior knowledge in ways that entice them to want to know more, use teaching strategies that take advantage of every student's learning modes, allow students to explore ideas and clarify their understanding of the world, create non-threatening situations in which students can rehearse new ideas and practice skills without fear of a low grade, use 21st century technology as an integral component of the learning process and not just a novelty, ensure students are thinking and generating questions that keep units intellectually stimulating, use formative assessments to identify when you've "lost" students and to alter your teaching plan to address their needs, and create a classroom in which everyone is working hard while enjoying themselves—and a classroom in which no one feels left out.