Initially, PAT gave Hayden's students a reason to follow procedures and to work as expected. She believes that the approach helped her to be more positive. Hayden feels the experience built respect and the behavior of her students showed it. Hayden's use of PAT has taken on many forms, but early in her teaching, she developed a core group of activities that went over well with her students. Symbol Simon Divide the class into groups.
Groups compete to solve the puzzle first.
What Hayden likes about this game is that some of her low-achieving students really catch on to it and are able to shine. She says that it is a great game to fill just a few minutes of time at the end of a period. Boggle For this activity, use a Boggle game. The game comes with cubes that contain letters on the sides, a tray, and a timer. Have students list as many words as possible from letters that are adjoining.