Guide to Tripod’s 7Cs™ Framework
Captivate
Teachers who captivate spark and maintain student interest in learning. They stimulate and engage students by cultivating curiosity and inquiry and by making lessons interesting, relevant, and enjoyable.
Message to Students:
“I find ways to make lessons intellectually stimulating and relevant.”
Sample Student Survey Items
(for different grade levels)
- I like the things that we are learning in this class.
- I like the ways that we learn things in this class.
- My teacher makes lessons interesting.
Indicators of an Exemplary Classroom
Teachers effectively captivate through practices like these:
Designing stimulating lessons
The teacher designs lessons that capture and hold students’ attention.
- The teacher designs lessons that are responsive to students’ interests, backgrounds, and questions.
- The teacher conveys the relevance or importance of key facts, ideas, concepts, and skills.
- The teacher highlights ways that lessons can contribute to students’ lives.
Facilitating active participation
The teacher engages students in interactive learning experiences.
- The teacher uses a variety of methods for promoting interaction among students as they engage with ideas and materials.
- The teacher asks open-ended questions and encourages students to raise additional questions.
- The teacher uses appropriate technology to engage students in learning.
Reflection Questions
Consider these questions as you reflect on your classroom practice:
- How do you make your lessons relevant to students’ lives and the world outside of school?
- How well are your lessons paced? Are they too fast? Too slow? Is pacing differentiated for varying skill levels?
- How interactive are your lessons?
- How successfully do your lessons pique students’ curiosity and engage them actively in inquiry?
- How do your vocal inflections, movements, and mannerisms communicate your enthusiasm and contribute to capturing and holding students’ attention?
- How effectively do you use appropriate technology to engage students in learning?
- How do your assignments sustain students’ interest?
Sample Strategies
Try implementing teaching strategies like these in your classroom:
- Discuss how news articles or video clips relate to topics or concepts you are teaching.
- Create projects that engage students in applying what they are learning in meaningful real-world contexts.
- Use simulations or interactive online activities to engage students in learning.
- Provide opportunities for students to use digital tools to explore, create, and communicate, both individually and collaboratively.
TEACHING RESOURCES
We’ve curated a set of teaching resources for Captivate. As you set goals and pursue professional learning opportunities, use these resource collections to access additional strategies, tools, and examples of effective practices in action.
Captivate: Facilitating Active Participation
Teachers who captivate spark and maintain student interest in learning. They stimulate and engage students by cultivating curiosity and inquiry and by making lessons interesting, relevant, and enjoyable. Find resources offering classroom strategies that support the practice of engaging students in interactive learning experiences.
Challenge at the Heart of Deeper Learning: Teaching Channel Deeper Learning Series
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Classroom Time Analysis Tool
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Keeping It Relevant and “Authentic”
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Arizona Technology Integration Matrix
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The Big Ideas of Understanding by Design
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Student Choice Leads to Student Voice
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The Doing What Works Library
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Thinking Big About Engagement
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Science Talk: Management in the Active Classroom
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Reciprocal Teaching | Reading Rockets
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ICT Literacy Maps – P21
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Enliven Class Discussions With Gallery Walks
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Big Paper – Building a Silent Conversation
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Assigning Roles for Group Work
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Educational Leadership: Talking and Listening: Talking to Learn
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Save the Last Word for Me
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Fishbowl
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Instruction | Teaching Tolerance – Diversity, Equity and Justice
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Collaborative Culture: Academic Talk | EL Education
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Barometer – Taking a Stand on Controversial Issues
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Analyzing Perspectives through Primary Sources, Part 1 in Core Practices in Action: Laying the Foundation for Deeper Learning with Literacy
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Personalized Learning: Enabling Student Voice and Choice Through Projects
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Educational Leadership: Instruction That Sticks: Making Cooperative Learning Powerful
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5 Ways to Help Your Students Become Better Questioners
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Educational Leadership: Getting Personalization Right: Student Engagement: Key to Personalized Learning
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Oracy in the Classroom: Strategies for Effective Talk
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Implementing the Writing Process – ReadWriteThink
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Think Pair Share
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Chalk Talk
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Jigsaw
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It Takes a Village: Teenagers Use Community Resources to Pen a Guidebook
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Kindergarteners as Experts
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Circle of Viewpoints
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Bloom’s Digital Taxonomy
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Captivate: Designing Stimulating Lessons
Teachers who captivate spark and maintain student interest in learning. They stimulate and engage students by cultivating curiosity and inquiry and by making lessons interesting, relevant, and enjoyable. Find resources offering classroom strategies that support the practice of designing lessons that capture and hold students’ attention.
Instructional Pacing: How Do Your Lessons Flow?
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Using Gaming Principles to Engage Students
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The Power of Positive Relationships
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Encouraging Students to Own Their Work
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Solving Real-World Issues Through Problem-Based Learning
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How to Choose the Best Multicultural Books | Scholastic
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Attributes of High-Quality Work | EL Education
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What Makes a Question Essential?
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UDL Guideline 7: Provide options for recruiting interest
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5 Ways to Give Your Students More Voice and Choice
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Challenge at the Heart of Deeper Learning: Teaching Channel Deeper Learning Series
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Keeping It Relevant and “Authentic”
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Arizona Technology Integration Matrix
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The Big Ideas of Understanding by Design
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Student Choice Leads to Student Voice
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Thinking Big About Engagement
Read More
Science Talk: Management in the Active Classroom
Read More
ICT Literacy Maps – P21
Read More
Instruction | Teaching Tolerance – Diversity, Equity and Justice
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Barometer – Taking a Stand on Controversial Issues
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Personalized Learning: Enabling Student Voice and Choice Through Projects
Read More
Educational Leadership: Getting Personalization Right: Student Engagement: Key to Personalized Learning
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Implementing the Writing Process – ReadWriteThink
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It Takes a Village: Teenagers Use Community Resources to Pen a Guidebook
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Kindergarteners as Experts
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Bloom’s Digital Taxonomy
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