Increase Student Engagement with a Classroom Microphone

Increase student engagement with a classroom microphone! My favorite classroom management tool to use during the school year is a classroom microphone.

Why You Need a Classroom Microphone

Using a classroom microphone is a great way to increase student engagement, build student confidence, enhance student presentation skills, and more! I love using a classroom microphone for different content subjects and for many learning activities. It is a great classroom management tool that definitely helps increase student engagement. Not only will your students increase engagement in the lesson or activity, their individual confidence will begin to increase as well.

Build Student Confidence With a Classroom Microphone

Presenting in front of the whole class can be a very uncomfortable feeling for many students. Before I began using a classroom microphone, I noticed children would whisper, talk very softly, look down, rush through, and unconfidently give a presentation. After  itroducing the tool, I witnessed a transformation of student confidence and an increase in engagement during classroom presentations. by using a classroom microphone, students present with confidence, speak at a clearer pace, and present with strong eye contact. Using a microphone during presentations is also a great way to increase engagement with the students who are listening to the presenter. Students love hearing their peers share! The classroom microphone helps increase engagement of the students who are listening to their peers share.

How to Increase Student Engagement with a Classroom Microphone

To increase student engagement with a classroom microphone, classroom microphone rules, procedures, and expectations are introduced. At the end of a writer’s workshop lesson during a classroom share, sometimes students who are chosen to share writing with the microphone must have completed the task, remembered to use capitalization and punctuation, and has a model example of the assignment for peers to learn from. By using the classroom microphone expectations poster, students remain on task longer as a result of wanting to be able to share with the whole class at share time. Students have also enhanced their writing by remembering to write sentences with a capital letter and end in appropriate punctuation. No need to ask students, “How do we start and end a sentence?” Using the classroom microphone as a classroom management tool has transformed my classroom and increased student engagement. If you want to increase engagement in your classroom, then you need a classroom microphone!

How to Use a Classroom Microphone to Increase Student Engagement

Using a classroom microphone is a great way to increase student engagement in the classroom!

I use one for various learning activities in all different subjects such as writing, reading, math, and more! In writer’s workshop, we use the microphone at the end of writing during classroom share time. We also use it during publishing celebrations when students read aloud published writing!

The classroom microphone is also a wonderful way to increase student engagement during math and reading. The microphone is used to increase student engagement in math when students read aloud word problems, model how to solve a problem, and ask whole-class questions. The classroom microphone is also used to increase student engagement during reading when students read aloud, share examples, model a reading strategy, present a book report, and more. The classroom microphone can be used to increase engagement during science and social studies presentations as well. A classroom microphone is a great classroom management tool that can increase engagement.

So that’s how a classroom microphone can increase student engagement!

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Interested in reading more about my favorite classroom tools? Check out my blog posts about making math fun and engaging!