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The Secrets to Creating an Engaging Classroom: TPT’s for ALL Students June 13, 2012 Conestoga Valley School District Professional Development Michelle Trasborg Susan Grammer and Nicole Reinking

“Engagement does not result from students’ desire to learn. Engagement results from students’ desire to do things they cannot do unless they learn.” -Phil Schlechty

What is the CV Curriculum Framework? Combination of UbD & Marzano’s Art & Science of Teaching UbD provides the framework for curriculum writing. The Art & Science of Teaching blends with UbD by providing a roadmap for effective teaching guided by 10 Design Questions.

Where have we been? Where are we going? UbD Implementation Introduction of AMT Use of the UbD lesson plan with AMT Conestoga Valley Curriculum Framework introduced with The Art & Science of Teaching Design Questions 1 & 2Plus UbD Lesson Plans Design Questions 3Design Questions 5Design Questions 4

The Marzano Protocol: Lesson Segments Involving Routine Events Design Question 1: What will I do to establish and communicate learning goals, track student progress, and celebrate success? Design Question 6: What will I do to establish or maintain classroom rules and procedures? Lesson Segments Addressing Content Design Question 2: What will I do to help students effectively interact with the new knowledge? Design Question 3: What will I do to help students practice and deepen their understanding of new knowledge? Design Question 4: What will I do to help students generate and test hypotheses about new knowledge? Lesson Segments Enacted on the Spot Design Question 5: What will I do to engage students? Design Question 7: What will I do to recognize and acknowledge adherence and lack of adherence to classroom rules and procedures? Design Question 8: What will I do to establish and maintain effective relationships with students? Design Question 9: What will I do to communicate high expectations for all students?

Why Design Question 5? Teacher feedback indicated a need to work with student engagement. Student demographics have changed to require a focus on engagement. Brain based learning and educational best practices direct us to the importance of student engagement.

The Marzano Protocol: Lesson Segments Involving Routine Events Design Question 1: What will I do to establish and communicate learning goals, track student progress, and celebrate success? Design Question 6: What will I do to establish or maintain classroom rules and procedures? Lesson Segments Addressing Content Design Question 2: What will I do to help students effectively interact with the new knowledge? Design Question 3: What will I do to help students practice and deepen their understanding of new knowledge? Design Question 4: What will I do to help students generate and test hypotheses about new knowledge? Lesson Segments Enacted on the Spot Design Question 5: What will I do to engage students? Design Question 7: What will I do to recognize and acknowledge adherence and lack of adherence to classroom rules and procedures? Design Question 8: What will I do to establish and maintain effective relationships with students? Design Question 9: What will I do to communicate high expectations for all students?

Thank you, Michelle!

Engagement occurs when… Students see their work as personally meaningful. Students feel challenged by the rigor of the work. Students master content through authentic, project- based, inquiry-driven learning. Students work and learn collaboratively and socially, both online and off. Students evaluate for and select the best tools for their work.

Students who are engaged: Learn at high levels and have a profound grasp of what they learn Retain what they learn Can transfer what they learn to new contexts

Bloom’s Revised Taxonomy Lorin Anderson (a student of Bloom)

Why is engagement important? Students engaged… …except that one!

Engagement Engagement is the pre-cursor to learning. Engagement is not the goal, but unless learners are fully engaged in the work, they will not successfully learn and achieve high standards.

Metacognitive Learning Model EngageThinkLearn Engagement Tools KWL, Story Map, Jigsaw, Timelines, Charts, Graphs, Journal Entry, etc. Metacognitive Strategies Visualizing, Inferring, Summarizing, Synthesizing, Questioning, Making Connections, etc. Critical Learning Content, Skills, Plot/Theme, Fact/Opinion, Vocabulary, Sequencing, Cause & Effect, etc.

Engagement Quadrants

How do levels of engagement impact student learning?

Engagement Levels Authentic Engagement Strategic Compliance/Engagement Ritual/Passive Compliance Retreatism Rebellion

Authentic Engagement

The student sees the activity as personally meaningful. The level of interest is sufficiently high that the student persists in the face of difficulty. The task is sufficiently challenging such that the student perceives she/he will accomplish something of worth by doing it. The emphasis is on optimum performance and internal motivation. The learning transfers from one context to another.

Strategic Compliance/Engagement

The task has little value to the student but the student associates it with outcomes of results that do have value (ie. grades, rewards, attention, approval) If the task doesn’t promise to meet the extrinsic goal, the student will abandon it. Students have a superficial grasp of what they learn and cannot transfer what they learn from one context to another.

Ritual/Passive Compliance

The work has little meaning to students and is not connected to what does have meaning. Students learn at low levels and have a superficial grasp of what they learn. The student seeks to avoid confrontation. The emphasis is on minimums and exit requirements. Do not retain what they learn and cannot transfer learning to different contexts.

Retreatism They’re still hanging in there…but barely.

Retreatism The student is disengaged from current classroom activities and goals. The student is thinking about other things and is emotionally withdrawn from the situation. The student rejects all goals associated with the learning. The students feels unable to do what is being asked or is uncertain about what is being asked. The students do not participate in the learning and learn little from the activities.

Rebellion

The student is disengaged from current classroom activities. The student IS actively engaged in another agenda. The student creates their own means and goals. Students sometimes learn a great deal from what they elect to do. Students develop poor work habits and negative attitudes towards formal education and intellectual tasks.

Fauxgagement

Does anyone have any questions? Thumbs up/thumbs down Eye contact Watching a movie Appropriate behavior

True/Not True Hold Up Teacher effectiveness has a greater influence on student performance than race, socioeconomic status, or class size. TRUE One teacher can make a difference. We must believe this.

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Resources Himmele, P., and W. Himmele. Total participation techniques, making every student an active learner. Alexandria, Virginia: Association for Supervision & Curriculum Development, 2011.