Best Practices Within Promethean
- 1. Best Practices Within Promethean Strategies for Incorporating Collaborative Groups and Processing Time into Presentations
- 2. Overview Menu Using Promethean technology to create Collaborative lessons is a great way to enhance Groups student learning. Graphics, videos and Processing text can all be used to increase content Time objectives. However, often times when using a new presentation software we forget that good teaching strategies can be incorporated into the presentations. Presentation software does not mean lecture software.
- 3. Overview 2 Menu Use the following Module to learn Collaborative possible ways to incorporate Groups processing time or collaborative Processing Time groups within your Promethean Board presentations.
- 4. Collaborative Groups Menu Allowing students a chance to work Collaborative together as a group can enhance Groups learning and improve important Processing Time social skills needed for the world today. There are several easy ways to incorporate group work into your presentations.
- 5. Collaborative Groups 2 Menu Consider using groups as a part of a Collaborative warm-up or activator. Groups Processing Time Welcome Students. At your table groups you will find a blank sheet of paper and three markers. Spend the next five minutes drawing a labeled picture of a cell.
- 6. Collaborative Groups 3 Menu Use groups as part of a jigsaw activity Collaborative within your presentation. Groups Processing Time Next, you and your group will get 20 minutes to use your textbook and the presentation we just viewed to create a chart that describes the following topic. Group One Group Two Group Three Economy Laws Culture
- 7. Processing Time Menu Often teachers rush through Collaborative presentations and forget to allow the Groups information to sink in. Processing Time For every 10 minutes of new information presented you should provide 2 minutes of processing time.
- 8. Processing Time 2 Menu Add reminders into your Collaborative presentations that will remind both Groups you and your students to slow down. Processing Time Reminders could be simple Summary: like an hour glass or a timer Ancient Civilizations all relied heavily in the corner of on the use of the natural the page. environment. The most important feature being access to clean water from rivers.
- 9. Processing Time 3 Menu Or you can use a more specific type of Collaborative processing within your presentation Groups like a Think Pair Share. Processing Time We have just learned a lot of information. Let’s take some time to think about it. Think- Spend the next 35 seconds thinking about what the most important part of our lesson was. Pair- Pair up with a partner Share-Each partner will share what they feel is the most important, then you may provide feedback.