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November 1, 2016 by: secondarystrategies

The Best of The Best: Bell Ringers for Any High School Classroom: Versatile Multitaskers

Best of the Best Bell Ringers

  I’m excited to join up with host Secondary Sara and a bunch of outstanding ELA teachers to bring you The Best of The Best of our teaching ideas and ELA resources. Thanks for stopping by! Bell ringers are a terrific way to start a class successfully, focusing your students on the day’s class content, giving you a few minutes to do some clerical work,

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September 14, 2015 by: secondarystrategies

7 Techniques for Building a Classroom Community with Bell Ringers

Bell Ringer

The bell rings–and students immediately start responding to the question on the board, the (ungraded) quiz on a handout, or the prompt on a PowerPoint slide. Bell Ringers have become an effective beginning-of-class routine, focusing and preparing students for the day’s lesson and activities. Some teachers use the information they garner as quick formative assessments while others are grateful to have the 5 minutes a bell ringer

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