1. Let’s Get Engaged!: Leslie Grahn, World Language Resource Teacher
Howard County Public Schools

2. Session Outcomes
Participants will… 1. Examine the topics of motivation and engagement. 2. Explore strategies for engaging students in learning. 3. Reflect on their practice.

3. Workshop Wiki

4. Getting Engaged: Metaphorical Thinking
How is engaging students like getting engaged?

5. Motivating students to engage in class activities
Relate learning to real life
Give students control over learning
Assign challenging but achievable tasks
Arouse students’ curiosity
Design projects that allow students to share with others

7. Components of a brain-friendly classroom
Experiential, inductive, hands-on learning
Absence of threat paired with high challenge
Providing for student choice
Helping students construct meaning
Relying on the familiar, looking for the novel
Accurate, timely feedback

8. Brain-friendly techniques
Think-Pair-Share
How have you recently used one or more of these strategies?
Use humor
Use personal stories
Use novelty
Use movement
Use music
Connect learning
Use metacognition
Evoke emotions
Use visuals

9. Let’s do some hands-on hands-on learning
FOLDABLES
Poof book

10. Let’s make a”smoosh” book!

11. A great resource: Read-Write-Think.org

12. Poof Books on ReadWriteThink.org

13. Name Author's by: Title Text box for information
Picture to go with text on p.3
Picture to go with text on p.5
Picture to go with text on p.7

14. Get on your feet!
Step left/step right
Human graphs
Corners
Graffiti

15. Favorite Out-of-seat Activity
Name a favorite out-of-seat activity into one block on grid.
As you walk around the room, find 8 other people with ideas and take notes in the other blocks.

16. What do students say about class participation?
(Survey from an ESL class in Japan)

17. Voices of students on participation
3-2-1
3 things you expected
2 things that surprised you
1 thing you still wonder about

18. 5 Elements of Cooperative Learning
Positive Interdependence
Face-to-Face Interaction
Individual and Group Accountability
Interpersonal and Small-Group Skills
Group Processing

19. Cooperative Learning 3-step interview Inside-outside circles
Numbered heads together
Send a problem
Jigsaw
Think-Pair-Share
Graffiti
Four Corners

20. Cooperative Learning
Write the types of cooperative learning you have used on the PLACEMAT
Tell about…
What it is
How you used it

21. Inside-Outside Circles Reflection
One practice I use to engage students is…
This session has made me think about…
A strategy I will implement in my classroom is…
I would like to find out more about…

22. Today, we’ve talked about ENGAGEMENT in terms of:
Motivation
Brain-friendly strategies
Hands-on activities
Out-of-seat activities
Student participation
Cooperative learning

23. What else is in the packet?

24. Other topics on the Let’s Get Engaged! wiki
Empowering students through reflection and feedback
Beginnings and Ends in Mind
Let’s Get Visual!
Are we there yet?: Actual and virtual field trips
Thinking about thinking
Crossing curricular boundaries
Popping the questions

25. Closure Choose Two Exit tickets
1. One thing I learned today was ...
2. Something from today's workshop that I want to find out more about is ...
3. Something I found difficult to understand today was ...
4. I really enjoyed today's workshop because ...
5. I found today's workshop challenging because ...

26. Let’s Get Engaged!: Leslie Grahn, World Language Resource Teacher
Howard County Public Schools