Learner Engagement

What do you think?

What’s wrong with the way teachers learn about student engagement?
Who are actually the master teachers and master storytellers?
Where are the spaces that these master teachers could learn about engaging people?
How does the preacher engage the audience?

Content and theories with the absence of the ____________ of teaching and learning means nothing.

How (do you/) does he recommend trainee teachers learn about engagement?
What body language and gestures could help engage learners?

Engagement TED.mp4

Learner Engagement at TED

Have a listen to Christopher Emdin talk about the true masters of engagement and how we should be modelling learner engagement in the classroom from them.

Intellectual Engagement

Curiosity
Student’s own project
Student’s choice
Chunking information with interaction or active segments

How do the masters of engagement engage intellectually?

What could you adopt in your classroom?

Emotional Engagement

Monitor students’ moods
Stop students from dropping out
Minimise negative behaviours
Grabbing attention
Refocusing students

How do the masters of engagement engage emotionally?

What could you adopt in your classroom?

Behavioural Engagement

Cues and gestures (expecting certain behaviour or refocusing on task)
Variation in activities
Pause in speech for students to fill in the gap
Known routines (that elicit student behaviour)

How do the masters of engagement engage behaviourally?

What could you adopt in your classroom?

Physical Engagement

Eliciting physical movement from the students
Active student participation through speaking, body movement and/or writing

How do the masters of engagement engage physically?

What could you adopt in your classroom?

Engagement short.mp4

Rapper Engagement

How do they engage...

Intellectually?
Emotionally?
Behaviourally?
Physically?

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