Engaged learning is a huge strength for one of the teachers I have observed. He does class transformations where he decorates his classroom in a specific theme and then creates activities that revolve around that theme.
For one of his transformations, he made his classroom look like a pirate ship. He welcomed the class Monday morning dressed in head to toe captain attire.
Another transformation he did was a Monsters University theme. He used pringle cans and turned them into scare cans. There were five learning activities that the students were to complete. After each one was done, they could add a level to their scream can. When they were totally done the scream can was full. One of the days was 'Writers Inc.' there were five doors hung, each with a title above it: prewrite, draft, revise, revise, edit and publish.
For the entire weeks transformation there were monsters inc themed writing, reading, math and art activities. The kids loved every minute of the week.
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