Tactile Engagement

Tactile engagement is designing lessons so that students use multiple parts of their brain to build understanding; check out these great examples of "getting physical" with learning.

In a vocabulary lesson, students manipulate the words while determining their meaning in the context.

The same lesson, has a whole-class tactile component where they physically move the words on the Interactive Whiteboard.  This same thing can be done using the Promethean software.

Okay, here I go with stations again.  What's noteworthy about these is the simple way to organize all the materials so that students are ready to learn.  They also include simple manipulatives for easy engagement and an integration of technology.

In this lesson, students rotating around the room, identifying reading strategies they use to help develop reading skills.  A few post-its can go a long way!

Getting students into the science labs to determine mass, volume etc. with a variety of materials is a great way to build content understanding.

And finally, you as a teacher can use a little tactile engagement.  There are so many tricks for calling on students, including tongue depressors with student names.