Inquiry Question

Clearing the Fog!

How do we as teachers
facilitate a classroom where
all students are engaged in
their own learning?
An Engaged student is
Occupied, busy, committed to a
cause, involved in conflict, being in
gear. (Free Dictionary, 2013)

Owns their learning!


How is engagement
achieved?

Marzanos high-yield
instructional strategies

Differentiated learning

Project based learning

Assessment for and as learning
Marzano
Robert Marzano and colleagues
identified nine high-yielding
instructional strategies that have the
greatest positive effect on student
achievement for ALL students, in ALL
subjects, at ALL grade levels. (Shipley
2007)

These strategies develop transferable
skills to develop students ownership
of learning.

How we learn not what we learn.
(Russell, today)
Differentiated Instruction
Differentiated cont
Differentiation offers a connection to ALL
learning styles

Students own learning style and what works
best for themselves = engagement.

Learning to learn the way they learn best

Teachers learn to teach the way students
learn best resulting in higher engagement

Knowledge of their best learning style will
result in students demonstrating learning in
the way they are most successful
Project Based Learning
How do we use PBL to engage
students in our classrooms?

Must be: relevant and meaningful,
allows variety and choice, have
significant content, requires
collaboration, includes technology and
involves a public audience.

Develops ownership through choice in
demonstration of learning
Assessment
Of, as, for
For and as during learning, for student and
isnt leaving students stuck
One-to-one, immediate, personal and
constructive
Reasoning, the why or intention is crucial
Actively involves students in own learning
Stay away from scoring
Student report on learning- Traffic Light
Cards
Immediate feedback
Evaluatee also evaluator.
Creates accountability for own learning
Conclusion
To be aware of all the learning styles
within a classroom facilitates better
instruction.

Empower students to know who they
are and what their best learning looks
like.

It takes all kinds of strategies to
create the best environment.