5 Easy, Engaging and Effective Classroom Protocols

CUE Crafted Protocols

Several California Teacher’s presented 5 Useful Classroom Protocols:
The Eduprotocols.com website includes these protocols and and other related materials

• Iron Chef EduProtocol

  • Teams of students spend 10 minutes creating 4-slide, two minute slideshows.
    • Keys:  Quick, Formative, Builds and routinizes research, creation and presentation skills
  • Iron Chef Protocol Description for Teachers
  • Iron Chef Slides Template
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• Cyber Sandwich EduProtocol

  • Think, Pair Share adapted for use with Google Slides.
    • Keys:  Slides template delivers content and cooperative assignment for two students that includes individual work, cooperation and individual final product.
  • Students work in pairs on a shared Google Slide Show.  Each takes notes independently, then they collaborate on Venn Diagram of notes and finally write their own summary.
  • Approach obvious from this Template.
    • Cyber Sandwich Slides Template 

• Questioning Protocol

  • Process taps student curiosity by encouraging thoughtful questioning on just about any topic.
    • Collaborative activity that encourages curiosity, engagement and further study.
  • Questioning Protocol Description (Google Slideshow) 

• Fast and the Curious Protocol

  • This quiz centered classroom protocol relies on the Quizizz Web based software.
    • The protocol suggests repeated use of short quizzes on a schedule like this.
    • Quizizz is very similar to Kahoot, but is somewhat less competitive and more focused on providing useful data on the achievement of individual students and the overall class.
    • Quizizz sessions serve as effective formative assessments that can immediately inform class instruction and identify specific student weaknesses.
    • Here is the suggested weekly classroom routine for a discrete set of content.  (e.g.  unit vocabulary list)
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  • The Fast and the Curious Protocol Description (Google Slideshow)
  • Access Quizizz at  ( https://quizizz.com )
    • Log in with your rsu1.org google account.
  • Quizizz Feature overview included in this Review:  Class Quiz Games with Quizizz (an Alternative to Kahoot) 

• Media Literacy Protocol

  • Summary: Based on a current event.
    • Teacher provides basic background information on a current news event
    • Two Newspaper headlines are examined for the the same story
      • One Headline to the right another to the left (e.g. Washington Times and NY Times)
      • Students compare and contrast the two headlines
        • Note areas of emphasis for each, Note disagreement.
      • Students draft their own moderate headline for the same story.
  • See AllSides compilation of Right, Left and Center Headlines for Recent News Stories (updated daily)
    • AllSides Resources and Lesson Plans for Schools
  • Rates Each Headline as
  • Sample Entry
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  •  Washington Post: Ranking the media from liberal to conservative, based on their audiences
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