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Engaging Students in Learning: Comprehensive Induction Program

The document discusses strategies for engaging students in learning. It recommends using activities and assignments that involve grouping students and instructional materials. It also suggests considering the structure and pacing of lessons. Student engagement is defined as having high attention and commitment to tasks. Types of student responses include engaged, strategically compliant, ritually compliant, retreatism, and rebellion. Suggested strategies to improve student engagement include using the students' names and interests in lessons, inviting guest speakers, and displaying statements to spark discussions.

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Engaging Students in Learning: Comprehensive Induction Program

The document discusses strategies for engaging students in learning. It recommends using activities and assignments that involve grouping students and instructional materials. It also suggests considering the structure and pacing of lessons. Student engagement is defined as having high attention and commitment to tasks. Types of student responses include engaged, strategically compliant, ritually compliant, retreatism, and rebellion. Suggested strategies to improve student engagement include using the students' names and interests in lessons, inviting guest speakers, and displaying statements to spark discussions.

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Engaging Students In Learning

Comprehensive Induction Program


Delaware Performance Appraisal System II

 Activities and Assignments

 Grouping of Students

 Instructional Materials and Resources

 Structure and Pacing of the Lesson

Component 3- Criterion 3a
What Is Student
Engagement

Student Engagement
 Alone: Three minutes—think of a time (as
teacher, learner or observer) when you
experienced high levels of student
engagement.

 Group: Share your experience.

 Brainstorm a
list on chart paper: What does
student engagement look like?

Activity
Attentive

Committed Engaged Persistent

“Students who are engaged are


involved, but not all students who are
involved are engaged.”- Philip
Schlechty
Connected

Student Engagement Defined


1.Engagement - (High Attention and
Commitment to the tasks at hand)

2.Strategic Compliance - (High Attention and


Low Commitment the tasks at hand)
3.Ritual Compliance - (Low Attention and Low
Commitment to the tasks at hand)

4.Retreatism - (No Attention and No


Commitment)

5.Rebellion - (Diverted Attention)

5 Student Responses to Work


Strategically Ritually
Engaged Retreatist Rebel
Compliant Compliant

Create Create Create Learn Little Learn Little

Negative Negative
Evaluate Evaluate Evaluate
Attitudes Attitudes

Disengages/
Analyze Analyze Analyze Disrupts
Disrupts

Apply Apply Apply

Understand Understand Understand

Recall/ Recall-Short
Remember
Remember Term

Typical Student Activities


Delivering Engaging
Instruction

Student Engagement
 Make the students the center of your
classroom.
 Smile at your students.
 Greet your students when they walk into the
classroom.
 Overlook what you can.
 Establish procedures and routines early.
 Laugh at yourself.
 Eliminate personal habits that may annoy
kids.
 Use multiple modes of learning.
 Talk less than your students.
Improving Your Charisma
Don’t Do
Talk more than your students. Design activities that encourage your
students to speak with each other.
Create lessons that allow your students to Skip the worksheets and ask students to
be passive. solve puzzles, debate points, engage in
other open-ended thinking activities.
Let the push for accountability cause you Turn any occasion into a learning event in
to neglect those “teachable moments”. your classroom.
Allow yourself to drift when it comes to Plan alternate lessons in case the pace you
finding the correct pace for delivery of initially set for a lesson needs adjustment.
instruction.
Allow your students to sit around with Plan more work than you think your
nothing to do while they wait for class to students will be able to accomplish.
begin or end.
Confuse your students by giving hurried or Deliver a combination of written and verbal
unclear directions. directions and check for student
understanding.

Avoid Common Pitfalls


USE YOUR VOICE
EFFECTIVELY
VIDEOTAPE YOURSELF SET THE STAGE

MASTER THE ART OF KNOW YOUR


PAUSE AUDIENCE

LEARN TO MAINTAIN COMMAND ATTENTION


EYE CONTACT

USE BODY LANGUAGE


TO MOIVATE YOUR
LISTENERS

Improve Your Oral Presentations


Help Students Make a
•Include names, interests, hobbies and cultures of your students when
Personal Connection to the creating your lessons.
Lesson

•Have students create their own PPT slide summarizing the key points
Present a Slideshow of your lesson.

Invite Guest Speakers Into •Having students hear from members of the professional community
who have a connection to the topic can reinforce points you are trying
Your Class to make.

•Try using newspapers, cartoons, music, magazines, etc. when trying to


Use a Variety of Media demonstrate how you want something done.

Display a Statement on the •Immediately play a video that supports the statement.
Board

Surprise the Students With •Use theater techniques to stage a reenactment. Wear a costume (or
Theater have students wear costumes) to re-emphasize a point.

Make a Point Students Remember


Engage Students During Lectures
Before During After
• Post procedures in • Enforce the • Have students
a prominent place procedures reflect (written or
oral)
• Determine the • Introduce the
purpose of the discussion topic • What went well
discussion
• Explain the • Suggestions for
• Create the importance of improvement
questions your supporting their
students will opinions • Retelling of the
discuss important points
• Encourage deeper
• Arrange the room thinking and risk • Written summary
taking

• Recognize
speakers

• Get out of the way

Engage Students in Discussions


Engage Students With Games
Concept Maps Description Maps

Graphic
Organizers

Time Sequence Cause-and-Effect


Maps Maps

Engage Students With Graphic


Organizers
1. Cultivate your communication skills and charisma

2. Fully plan and prepare for oral presentations

3. Pay attention to all aspects of delivery (voice, demeanor, and body


language)

4. Plan ways to encourage students to stay on track and on task

5. Take advantage of the power of play

6. Use graphic organizers

7. Use hands-on manipulatives to enliven lessons

8. Provide examples of what you expect of students

9. Even mundane seatwork can be made more appealing and creative with
careful planning

Student Engagement Strategies


Summarized
 Schlechty, Phillip C. Engaging Students: The Next Level of
Working On The Work. First ed. San Francisco: Jossey-
Bass, 2011. Print.

 Thompson, Julia G. The First-Year Teacher's Survival


Guide. Third ed. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 2013. Print.

Sources

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