Student Engagement

In partnership with NYSASCD, we will be hosting watch parties at your school or the RTC and also on your own for the following:

New Teachers

Student Engagement and Instruction: 

Each session lasts 90 minutes with 75 minutes of presentation and 15 minutes for questions and clarifications.

Session 1: “Let’s Really Engage Our Students: Dynamic Strategies That Work”: Wednesday, October 30 from 4:00-5:30 PM

What is engagement? What does it look and sound like? How do you truly engage your students? During this webinar, we will focus on what student engagement is and is not and why engaging all students during a lesson will increase student retention and achievement. You will learn to effectively design lessons to engage all students in learning that lasts using protocols that promote deeper learning as well as other engagement strategies that can be easily implemented into your daily practice.

Session 2: “I Know I Taught It But: Checking for Understanding”: Wednesday, November 6 from 4:00-5:30 PM

You may have taught it but did the students learn it? How do you know if all the students got it? Do they know they got it? In this webinar, you learn not only what it means to think like an assessor but how to apply student engaged assessment strategies into your daily instruction to position students as leaders of their own learning. After the session is over, both you and your students will be able to apply checking for understanding strategies throughout a lesson to gather evidence of student learning against the learning target to see if what you taught was what they learned. How valuable is that?

Session 3: “Differentiation Does Not Mean Watered-Down: Differentiated Instruction Done Right”: Wednesday, November 13 from 4:00-5:30 PM

“How do I truly differentiate my instruction to meet the needs of all my students without watering down the rigor?” During this webinar, you will learn the principles of differentiated instruction and distinguish between differentiation and scaffolding. Additionally, the webinar will focus on a variety of effective content scaffolds that maintain the rigor of the grade-level standards as well as a variety of effective differentiated strategies that provides support for all learners throughout the 'process' portion of a lesson.