Greetings Colleagues,
Thank you for joining our cyber professional learning community. We will utilize this interactive technology to discuss important issues surrounding our primary goal this year of improving student achievement by raising the quality and rigor of our pedagogy. This will be a forum for sharing best practices, asking questions, receiving needed insight, and building every participant's capacity to plan, execute, assess, and reflect upon the craft of teaching. We thank Dr. Angela Hinton for her efforts in the conception and launching of this blog. Are you ready for our first discussion? Sure you are. Let us begin. Our topic of interest for our inaugural discussion is STUDENT ENGAGEMENT. We are asking each member to respond to the following questions?
- What are the characteristics of an engaging lesson?
- How do you increase student mastery and retention of content?
- How do you get your students fully engaged in your lessons?
- What does an engaging lesson look, sound and feel like?
- Please share your memories of a master teachers who taught you more than you ever thought possible.
- What implications does this discussion have for your classroom this year?
Eric D. Simmons, Principal
