The tools and templates featured here are designed to support the strategies presented in the text Active Learning and Engagement Strategies. The purposes, process, and possibilities for each of the strategies are presented in the text. Purposes for strategy use include, among others:
- Gather pre-assessment and formative assessment data
- Have students process and summarize learning
- Promote vocabulary development
- Promote student reflection, self-assessment, and goal setting
- Promote the use of creative and critical thinking skills
Check out the tools and templates by flipping through the booklet below. Note the tools that have potential for your use and then access the full-page tool in the list below. You can download and print the tools you select.
- Tool-1 Anticipation/Reaction Guide
- Tool-2 BINGO
- Tool-3 Cube, Blank
- Tool-4 Math Cubes Recording Sheet
- Tool-5 On a Roll Cubes
- Tool-6 On a Roll Recording Sheet
- Tool-7 Four-Box Synectics Review
- Tool-8 My Frame of Reference
- Tool-9 Frayer Model
- Tool-10 Folded Frayer Model
Graphic Organizers
- Tool-11 Cause and Effect
- Tool-12 Classifications or Taxonomies
- Tool-13 Compare and Contrast Matrix
- Tool-14 Compare and Contrast Venn Diagram
- Tool-15 Cycle
- Tool-16 Explanatory or Descriptive
- Tool-17 Sequence or Chronology
Journals and Logs
- Tool-19 Learning Log A
- Tool-20 Learning Log B
- Tool-21 Reflections on My Week
- Tool-22 Non-Fiction Journal Prompts
Learning Buddies
- Tool-23 Book Buddies
- Tool-24 Canadian Collaborators
- Tool-25 Clock Buddies
- Tool-26 Color Wheel Buddies
- Tool-27 Element Buddies
- Tool-28 Los Compañeros de Clase
- Tool-29 Parent Function Partners
- Tool-30 Vowel Buddies
- Tool-31 Shape Buddies
- Tool-32 Question Stems
- Tool-33 RAFT
- Tool-34 Sensational Sentences
- Tool-35 Small Group Work Observation Form
- Tool-36 Stir the Class
- Tool-37 Talking Tokens
- Tool-38 T-Chart
- Tool-39 3-2-1
- Tool-40 Three-Column Chart
- Tool-41 Vocabulary Deck
- Tool-42 Student Engagement and Self-Assessment
