Engagement

Note to user: Remember your own personalized copies of documents, templates, and items to capture learning are shared within the Google Classroom. If you are not in the Classroom, then please reach out to Aaron Maurer(amaurer@mbaea.org) to learn how to get involved.

This module assumes you know and can do the following:

  • Be able to identify the difference between participation and engagemnt

  • Growth mindset to adapt/modify current practices and habits

Goals of Learning

Learning Outcomes

  1. Describe how participation and engagement look and feel in the classroom(virtual, hybrid, F2F)

  2. Process how to adapt what worked in F2F teaching to the virtual environments

What I will DO in this module:

  1. Listen to a podcast about this question from two educators who have some interesting ideas to consider

  2. Reflect on current practices and identify what might need to be modified to reach engagement.

  3. Enhance virtual and distance learning environments.


Launch

Task: Capture Your Thinking Before Listening

Task: Capture Your Thinking Before Listening

Learn

Listen to the podcast

As you listen consider your ideas you generated in the LAUNCH and reflect on

  • Do I still hold tight on any ideas?

  • Do any of my ideas feel challenged for me to rethink my thoughts?

  • Do I have any new learning or insights I have not considered before?

Walk and Talk

For this task & for these new environments of teaching and learning we have the opportunity to avoid the typical "sit and get" approach to learning.

For this learning I am asking you to get up, grab some headphones and walk while you listen and reflect. The podcast is 45 minutes(skip the first few few minutes of intro if need be) so you can break up into two sessions or knock it out in one session.

If you are in a school you could ask permission to walk the halls during your prep or before/after school.

This idea was adapted from this post

Capture ideas by voice typing into your app of choice, but I would recomend adding to a Google Doc or Google Keep

Reflect

Walk and Talk Form

  • Here is a template(if you are in the course please use the version in Google Classroom) to capture your ideas.

    • Feel free to capture ideas in a mode that best serves you. This is just one way to organize thoughts and perhaps a tool you can use with staff and students.

  • Down in the RESOURCES section is access to material to the Distance Learning Playbook which has some suggested ways to reflect on your teaching practices as another option.

Challenges - Choose 1 Option

Google Group Discussion Forum

Discussion Forum

  • Share your answers to the questions above in the listening of the podcast.

  • Share your examples, reflections, questions, and resources for this topic in the Google Group. This discussion is labeled Participation vs. Engagement

  • If you share any resources I will add to the section below.

  • Share your answers to the questions above in the listening of the podcast.

  • Share your examples, reflections, questions, and resources for this topic in the topic. This discussion is labeled Participation vs. Engagement

  • If you share any resources I will add to the section below.

Challenge Template

  • Complete the Walk and Talk Form AND/OR

  • Complete one of the reproducibles listed below from Distance Learning Playbook

Checklist of Completion for Module

  • Share learning from module with Walk and Talk Form or your own reflection document

  • Complete one of the documents from Module 6 resoruces from Distant Learning Playbook that helps you with a current need. Module 6

Resources & Further Learning

Student Engagement’s Three Variables: Emotion, Behavior, Cognition

Distance Learning Playbook


The Distance Learning Playbook, Grades K-12: Teaching for Engagement and Impact in Any Setting by Hattie, John

Module 6 is focused on engagement and providing some things to consider in your classroom.

I found two of their reproducibles in Module 6 to be helpful in thinking through engagement in your classroom.