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Engagement Pulse Planner
ART OF TEACHING @ CODEBASICS · CHAPTER 7
Engagement Beat Planner
Design the heartbeat of a 30-minute live lesson. Place your engagement beats — then face the 10-minute rule.
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How it works
1
Your lesson is 6 blocks of 5 minutes. Choose what happens in each block.
2
Balance teaching with engagement beats: polls, quizzes, stories, Q&A.
3
Your plan is checked against 5 rules of live engagement — then download your lesson plan (PDF).
YOUR 30-MINUTE LESSON
Place your beats
Pick one activity per block. There is no single perfect plan — but there ARE dead ones.
0–5 min
5–10 min
10–15 min
15–20 min
20–25 min
25–30 min
THE VERDICT
Your rhythm check
–Open with a beat. Block 1 is an icebreaker moment (poll, story, quiz, Q&A) — never cold teaching to a silent room.
–The 10-minute rule. Never three Teach blocks in a row — attention dies quietly around minute 10.
–Variety. At least 2 different types of engagement beat — five polls is one trick, not a rhythm.
–You still teach. 2–4 Teach blocks — engagement seasons the lesson, it is not the lesson.
–Close the loop. The final block is a Quiz or Q&A — retrieval at the end is where learning sticks.
See a model timeline
One plan we love: Story (icebreaker) → Teach → Teach → Poll → Teach → Quiz. Opens human, teaches in honest stretches, resets attention at minute 15, and ends with retrieval. Slido handles the poll and quiz; names handle the rest - call on people, warmly, by name.
YOUR RESULT
– / 5
Complete the steps above
(If the buttons are not interactive in your LMS view, score yourself using the reveals above.)
Attention is a rhythm, not a resource.
Take your real next session and mark the beats on its agenda before you teach it. If any 10-minute stretch has no beat — add one. Your learners will never know why the session felt alive. You will.
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