Engagement

Purpose | Engagement | Assessment | Curriculum | Environment | Collaboration

What?

Engagement

Why?

Teacher dominated direct instruction...

Collaborating with friends to make sense of the learning.

How?

Academic Language

Instructional Strategies

CRT/NSN

College & Career

Limiting “Teacher Talk,” Increasing Student Work! - Achieve the Core Aligned Materials“Wah waah wah waah wah wah…” We all know the famous muted trumpet of adults in Charlie Brown’s world, especially their teacher, Miss Othmar. After five years teaching elementary school, I’m confident that I’m not boring my kids to sleep but I do wonder if I strike the right balance between “teacher talk” and student …

5 steps you can follow to actively engage your students and help them feel personally connected to their learning.

What Productive Talk Looks Like in the Elementary GradesUsing sentence stems to scaffold classroom discussions guides students to speak, actively listen, and build on each others’ ideas.

5 Ways to Keep Students Engaged at the End of the School YearBeat the wiggles with these ideas.

4 Practices for Increasing Student EngagementSpend the first five minutes of each class focusing on your students as people. Then keep them engaged through the agency of makerspaces, PBL, or Genius Hour/20 Time.

The Wingman: Engaging Reluctant StudentsMiddle school ELA teacher Sean Paris encourages participation from reluctant students by having them monitor the participation of their peers. When Sean appoints a student to be a wingman, the student tracks the frequency and type of participation from the group. Sean explains how this strategy engages students who are reluctant to participate in class discussion.

Choice But Also Rigor: Four Tips For Student Engagement | Getting SmartBy Christina Gil - There are two key factors for engaging a reluctant learner: choice and rigor. Here are my four tips for student engagement.

Golden Rules for Engaging Students in Learning Activities | EdutopiaWhen we think of student engagement in learning activities, it is often convenient to understand engagement with an activity as being represented by good behavior (i.e. behavioral engagement), positive feelings (i.e. emotional engagement), and, above all, student thinking (i.e. cognitive engagement) (Fredricks, 2014). This is because students may be behaviorally and/or emotionally invested in a given activity without actually exerting the necessary mental effort to understand and master the knowledge, craft, or skill that the activity promotes.

How to Keep Kids Engaged in ClassWhen students let their minds drift off, they're losing valuable learning time. Here are ten smart ways to increase classroom participation.

25 Tricks to Get Your Students Through the Last Weeks of SchoolThese last weeks of school are the toughest to keep kids focused on learning. Don’t worry. We have a few tricks up our sleeve to help.

The engaged student vs. the compliant student The engaged student knows exactly why they are doing what they are doing while the compliant student is unable to connect the learning to a...

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