Successful Ways to Introduce a Project
Be enthusiastic
Be dramatic
Be brief
Open with an attention getter
Keep vocabulary appropriate to the age level you are teaching
Be confident...remember there is no one in the room who knows more about this project than you do
Be flexible
Use more than words to motivate
Discourage visual stereotypes (happy faces, cartoon references, etc.)
Set classroom rules and norms.
Be dramatic
Be brief
Open with an attention getter
Keep vocabulary appropriate to the age level you are teaching
Be confident...remember there is no one in the room who knows more about this project than you do
Be flexible
Use more than words to motivate
Discourage visual stereotypes (happy faces, cartoon references, etc.)
Set classroom rules and norms.
- Respect each others work and work space
- Care for materials
- Noise levels in classroom
- Signals for silence
- Clarify clean up procedures
