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Edumentality offers practical, teacher‑ready methods and protocols designed to help both new and veteran educators strengthen daily instruction. It supports intentional planning, meaningful feedback, continual assessment, purposeful grouping, and high‑interest systems that keep students reading, writing, thinking, and talking every day. Edumentality shares useful instructional protocols by collecting the practices teachers pass along and making them accessible to others. It doesn’t claim to have created these methods; instead, it credits the educators who share them while recognizing that the original developers may be different from those who contributed them and strives to acknowledge those originators whenever possible.  Website graphics were designed with help from Microsoft Copilot. 

 


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How do teachers know if students are paying attention during direct instruction? This simple technique will keep student accountability high, generate a reliable study guide, and satisfy IEP requirements.  Comment below to let us know how it goes- 

SKELETAL LECTURE NOTES (Writing, Feedback, Collaboration)

​Description: This simple active engagement writing strategy assists students to stay focused during direct instruction (lecture), most especially in large classes.  Students must listen closely during class in order to fill-in the pieces of omitted information.

Application:
Use in any subject that includes a lecture format.


Process:
Before class, create a handout that covers the lesson’s direct instruction piece.  Omit some, but not all, key words such as specific people, places, events, and things. On class day, provide students with a handout of the day’s lecture.  Warn students not to interrupt the lecture. During the presentation, emphasize those omitted words by pausing, repeating, or inflecting.  Unless there is mass confusion, tell students there will be time for clarification of information with fellow students, not the teacher.

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