1. The Highly Engaged Classroom
Chapter 4
Is This Important?

2. How teachers Engage students
1. Connecting to students’ lives
2. Connecting to students’ life ambitions
3.Encouraging application of knowledge

3. Connecting to students’ lives
Analogical Reasoning Tasks
Open-ended Analogies
heart: circulatory system:: _________:________
Allow students to make their own analogy based on their interests.

4. Connecting to students’ Life ambitions
Personal Projects (Seven Phases).
1. What do I want to accomplish?
2. Who else has accomplished the same goal? Who will support me?
3.What skills and resources will I need to accomplish my goal?
4. What is my plan for achieving my goal, and how hard will I have to work?

5. Continued... 6. What small steps can I take right now?
7. How have I been doing? What have I learned about myself?

6. Encouraging Application of Knowledge
Design Cognitively Challenging Tasks
Decision Making
Problem Solving
Experimental injury
Investigation

7. Encouraging Application of Knowledge
Provide Choice
Choice of tasks
Choice of formats
Choice of learning goals
Choice of behaviors

8. Encouraging Application of Knowledge
Present Real-World Applications
Kepner Educational Excellence Program
6th grade students travel to Washington DC to study the Holocaust.
8th grade students learn world history by travelling to Europe.

9. Continued... Students sit down and make academic and behavioral goals.
Students commit to 40 hours of work (school based)
Elective class, studies history, culture and travel must knows.

10. Fowler’s Service learning Program
Creation of the 10 character traits, caring, citizenship, courage, duty, fairness, honesty, respect, responsibility, trustworthiness, and work ethic.
Every student, every teacher
Service-learning projects range from 2 weeks- semester long.
Has lead to a decrease in dropout rates and higher attendance rates.

11. National Novel Writing Month
Students create a novel in one month. A class was created, they also worked before and after school and during their lunch.
The end of the month they had a reading party, which was attended by students, parents, reporters and city council members.
The program increased from 115 to 250 in one year.
Students overcame thier fear of writing, and the students feel like they can accomplish anything.

12. Analyzing your strengths and weaknesses
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