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 minutesthink 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
 Students who are engaged are
involved, but not all students who are
involved are engaged.- Philip Schlechty

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

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

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

Make a Point Students Remember
Engage Students During Lectures
 Before
Before During
During After
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
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.

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