#170 How to secure 100% student engagement with Pritesh Raichura

Science teacher, Pritesh Raichura, shares his insights about how to ensure 100% of our students are listening, thinking and understanding at each stage of a lesson. From All-Hands-Up Cold Calling, to high-frequency checks for listening, this episode is jam-packed with incredible, practical insights. You can access the resources and videos from the episode here: https://www.mrbartonmaths.com/blog/170-how-to-secure-100-student-engagement-with-pritesh-raichura/

Useful time-stamps:

1. Welcome to Pritesh (06:51)
2. Pritesh's favourite failure (10:37)
3. What does Pritiesh mean by attention? (19:25)
4. What does 100% attention look like? (22:53)
5. Is 100% attention really achievable? (28:15)
6. What is the relationship between attention and behaviour? (33:44)
7. All-Hands-Up Cold Call (46:06)
8. How do you secure attention when students are practising independently? (1:16:37)
9. Show Call (1:20:35)
10. High-frequency checks for listening (1:25:20)
11. Desks in rows (1:43:05)
12. S-L-A-N-T (1:58:10)
13. Silence as a default (2:08:36)
14. The instruction sandwich (2:18:44)
15. Making routines work in the classroom when they are not whole-school policies (2:26:51)
16. The three phases of questioning (2:33:41)
17. Backload the means of participation (2:45:51)
18. Turn and Talk (2:52:24)
19. Mini-whiteboards (3:10:59)
20. Head down, fist on head for answering multiple choice questions (3:21:38)
21. Pritesh's Big 3 (3:30:02)