Classroom Participation

Vary your strategies for choosing students in classroom participation.  If you only call on the ones who raise their hands you will leave out a large portion of the class.  Try mixing things up and use a strategy to cover various areas of the classroom and call on students who don’t raise their hand. Example: Try choosing from the front/back/left/right, choose every 3rd student in a row, choose a color.  Bonus: Ask students to identify your strategy.  A word of caution, this works better for reviewing material rather than introducing a new skill. Remember to remain sensitive to students who truly are struggling to know the material.