Book Study #16 The Educator’s ATLAS

Please introduce yourself and tell us a little bit about who you are, where you are from, what you teach and anything else you want to include!

What does student engagement mean to you?   How do you know if your students are engaged?   Why is student engagement an important topic?

  What was the most important takeaway from this video for you?   Explain why.  

Choose one of the five attention-getters described in Chapter 3:   Attention.   How could you use this attention-getter to introduce a lesson that you are teaching within the next week?   Be detailed in your explanation!

How could Slow-Motion Multi-Tasking help you become a more creative educator?

  What was the most important takeaway from these chapters for you?   Explain why.

  How can the principles discussed in this video be applied in your classroom?  

Choose one of the activities described on the last pages of Chapter 6 that you’ve never used with your students before.   Plan to implement it in one of your lessons as soon as possible.   Then, come back here and describe what you did and how it went. Why is it important to step out of your comfort zone on occasion?

What education silos exist in your school?   How can you start to disassemble these silos?   Why would that benefit your students?

  Design a lesson for your students using the ATLAS framework. Describe each of the 5 components of your lesson.

  Please post your thoughts about this course below.   What did you like about it?   What didn’t you like about it?   Would you recommend this book study to a colleague?