Teach Better - Work Less - Achieve More: The Fast and Curious EduProtocol

The Fast and Curious EduProtocol is a great way for students to master academic vocabulary so that they can engage with more complex texts. A couple years ago, you may recall, Step Finn and the Curriculum Advisory Team shared with us the Four Hallmarks of Advanced Literacies. The Fast and Curious EduProtocol is a great way to integrate Hallmark 4 into your classroom practice.

In this EduProtocol, we are going to use a quiz program for the instruction instead of for the test. The purpose of this EduProtocol is to teach vocabulary. This isn't necessarily the highest activity on the Four Cs scale, but it is included here because the greatest teaching benefit of this EduProtocol is recapturing the time spent introducing and teaching vocabulary--so you can invest in other EduProtocols. There are a lot of great quiz programs out there: Kahoot, Quizizz, Socrative, Quizlet Live. But Quizizz is preferred for the Fast & Curious EduProtocol. See the slide deck below for detailed instructions and feel free to make a copy if you are interested in using the student-paced self-assessment tool--the teacher that created it did so for helping students master math facts rather than vocabulary, but you can use it for both.