CHAPTER 4: STUDENT ENGAGEMENT IN THE CLASSROOM

Partner-share (also turn and talk, think pair share)

- A problem, question, or task needs to be resolved. - students are allowed time to think of the process , work with a partner to refine thinking, gain new insights and share them with the class. - student must summarize their partners learning to class

2. Get Feedback

- Allow students to provide feedback anonymously. - Ask a colleague into your classroom and observe.

Bouncing Ideas

- Collaborating together allows them to bounce ideas off each other. ex: when having a difficult student, they can discuss how to meet the students needs. ex: When beginning a new curriculum, have conversations about

1. DO NOW/BELLRINGER

- Have an engaging short assignment that is ready for students to work INDEPENDENTLY on prior to the lesson.

1. Technology Integration

- Important way in the classroom to engage students in a topic of a lesson. - Being able to 1. access information quickly, 2.analyze search results, 3. effectively evaluate resources, 4. synthesis of findings,

Complementing Strengths and Struggles

- One teacher is good at behavioral management, while the other is good at math curriculums. Their complementing their strengths and struggles, where both of there practices benefit as a result.

2. CHUNK AND CHEW

- Referred as 10 and 2 (for every 10 minutes of lecturing information, they have 2 min to process the information) - Breaking up the content into CHUNKS allows for greater level of engagement and retention of information.

3. RECORD your class

- Set up a camera for video recording your lesson - review it to see what went well, and what did not work for your students. How can you improve next time.

2. Explain material carefully, break down bigger concepts

- Watch for confused looks by students.

Theory of engagement

- When students find the lesson meaningful, and have a high level of interest in tasks, they 1. learn more effectively, 2. retain information, 3. transfer it to other contexts. Appeal to students needs, interests, values of students.

1. Get to know your students

- Where are your students at ACADEMICALLY? - What is appropriate material for their grade level - Do any students in class have ADHD and need assistance?

3. Simulation role play

- allows students to place themselves in a situation based on lesson topic. - ROLE PLAYS allow students to assume a role and think critically about the exercise before they are required to act it out.

Active engagement

- amount of time students spend on task during a lesson, and level of participation.

Get up and go

- encourages MOVEMENT and Collaboration - Students respond to questions by moving to different areas in the room, discussing their rationale and sharing with the class.

3. Debates

- get students to think about what they believe, and come up with reasons to support their position.

4. Role playing

- give students opportunity to act out a certain person or situation, in order to use learned material and understand another's perspective.

1. Small groups

- give students practice working together - getting input from peers - approaching classwork in a different pay - hands on with the material.

3. Promote student INDEPENDENCE

- give students the chance to work independently, in which they build up their own critical thinking and confidence.

3. Excitement

- have a desire to share their work with others or tell others what they did in school.

2. Think pair share activities

- involves students pairing up, and sharing their ideas on the prompt given by the teacher. - GOAL is to engage students in meaningful discourse about the topic with one another to help them become more involved in learning process.

Critical thinking and new perspectives

- learning to see the world from a number of different perspectives. both teachers are learning that there can be multiple approaches to problems/situations.

2. Case studies

- real life situations to solve based on what they learned. - encourage creative/critical thinking, and draw forth class discussions.

Student engagement

- refers to degree of attention, curiosity, interest, optimism, and passion that students show when they are learning.

3. Non-Verbal Cues

- rhythmic clapping, hand signals, chimes. - create a way for teachers to regain attention of individual students and groups.

Collaboration

- strengthens teaching practice - enhances communication with administrators and families. - helps students be more productive, and engaged learners.

5. Phone a friend

- students seek help of a classmate when they are called on to answer. - forges collaboration and interdependence in classroom. - Student seeking help hears correct answer, and goes back to student to repeat the correct answer.

Effective teaching

- teacher uses certain approaches to help student learn and flourish.

4. Cold calling

- teachers randomly call on students during a lesson whether their hands are raised or not.

Reflective teaching

- teachers think of their teaching practices, analyzing how something was taught, and how it might be proved or change for better outcomes.

6. Higher ordered thinking

- types of questions being asked impacts their level of critical engagement. - move students beyond basic remembering and understanding to more rigorous thinking. ex: asking student to create an analogy for the cell wall in an animal cell verse simply labeling organelles.

Student engagement

- when students are interested in the task, even when it becomes challenging.

2. Curiosity

- will manifest as a desire for students to know more about a topic - students not asking questions, means that they do not care to investigate a topic further so they are not CURIOUS.

Jigsaw

- works well with GROUP work. - students are assigned to home groups where they receive their assignments. - move to expert groups, where they are responsible for GAINING KNOWLEDGE to take back to their home groups. - Expert pieces are put together for the final product.

1. Keep a journal

1. After each class, take some notes about what was taught, and how students responded, positive or negative. Did they understand the material, Do you need more prep time.

What teacher developed a variety of ways to increase student engagement in the classroom that was based on values, needs, interest.

1. Tristan de Frondeville

Basic points to consider when reflective teaching?

1. What is being done, and WHY?

Three aspects of student engagement

1. focus 2. excitement 3. curiousity

TIPS FOR BETTER STUDENT ENGAGEMENT

1. have an EMOTIONALLY safe classroom. 2. have an INTELLECTUALLY safe classroom. 3. Asks students to keep a journal to write in at end of each lesson or end of day where they reflect on what they learned. 4. Prepare a few questions each day that is simple and REQUIRE every student to answer.

Factors that can INCREASE opportunities for students to fully engage

1. must be ACTIVE participants, as opposed to Passively receiving information. 2. Activities must be RELEVANT and MEANINGFUL 3. Some level of CRITICAL THINKING must be involved.

Modeling Cooperation

Students learn that by watching their teachers - They can reach out to people for help in challenging situations - do stronger work as a team than on their own - honoring the perspective of another person is important.