1. Welcome The Student Engagement Formula Tutorial 1: Buy-in Your presenter: Rob Plevin Behaviour Needs Ltd

2. Question What proportion of your students are disengaged or unmotivated at the start of your lessons? 1.10% 2.25% 3.50% 4.More than 50%

3. Question What words do you associate with ‘Study’? “In my 30 years of investigating people’s associations with the word ‘study’, ten major words or concepts have emerged. They are: boring, exams, homework, waste of time, punishment, irrelevant, detention, hate, fear.” Tony Buzan

4. Goals for Today Learn creative ways to ‘hook’ students at the start of lessons Learn how to make students feel welcome and actually enjoy being in the lesson Learn several ways to make the curriculum more relevant to students

5. Resources Accompanying resources for the ideas in this webinar in the ‘resources’ section

6. 1. Get Buy-In Buy-In Method 1: Create CURIOSITY Buy-In Method 2: Make it RELEVANT Buy-In Method 3: Make them feel WELCOME Buy-In Method 4: Give them instant SUCCESS

7. Buy-In: Welcome

8. Features of the best teacher in school:

9. Buy-In: Welcome Enthusiasm 7% of meaning in the words that are spoken. 38% of meaning is paralinguistic (the way that the words are said). 55% of meaning is in facial expression and body language. While you are proclaiming peace with your lips, be careful to have it even more fully in your heart. Francis of Assisi Professor Albert Mehrabian

10. Buy-In: Welcome Mood/atmosphere

11. Buy-In: Welcome Humour

12. Buy-In: Welcome 1:1 Relationships Provide support, give responsibilities

13. Buy-In: Welcome Positive Expectations Q. Why did the $100k lawyer flunk her exams?

14. Buy-In: Welcome Puzzles - Dingbats Ice Cube

15. Buy-In: Welcome Puzzles - Dingbats Show-off

16. Buy-In: Welcome Puzzles - Dingbats Dead Ringer For Love

17. Buy-In: Welcome Puzzles – Mad Gabs The Titanic THOUGH TIGHT AN HICK

18. Buy-In: Welcome Puzzles – Mad Gabs Santa Claus SAND TACKLE LAWS

19. Buy-In: Welcome Puzzles – Lateral thinking They weren’t playing each other Two scrabble champions played five games of Scrabble. Each won and lost the same number of games and there were no draws. How was this possible?

20. Buy-In: Welcome Puzzles – Lateral thinking The letter ‘U’ What occurs once in June, once in July and twice in August?

21. Buy-In: Welcome Puzzles – Physical Challenges Stand with your back against a wall, with a coin between your feet. Can you bend over without bending your knees, and pick up the coin?

22. Buy-In: Welcome Puzzles – Slow Reveal

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24. Buy-In: Welcome Whiteboard games

25. Buy-In: Welcome Method : Active Games

26. Buy-In: Curiosity Learning Kits

27. Buy-In: Curiosity Learning Kits – Treasure hunts 

28. Buy-In: Curiosity Learning Kits – prompt sheet

29. Buy-In: Curiosity Learning Kits - experiments

30. Buy-In: Curiosity Learning Kits - sorting task

31. Buy-In: Curiosity Learning Kits - text exercises

32. Buy-In: Curiosity Learning Kits - kinaesthetic learning

33. Buy-In: Curiosity Learning Kits - audio/video files

34. Buy-In: Curiosity Magic

35. Buy-In: Curiosity Magic

36. Buy-In: Curiosity Magic

37. Buy-In: Curiosity Props & Entry Resources Subject-related prop

38. Buy-In: Curiosity Timer Props & Entry Resources

39. Buy-In: Curiosity Choice Card Props & Entry Resources

40. Buy-In: Curiosity Puppets Props & Entry Resources

41. Buy-In: Curiosity Awards & Trophies Props & Entry Resources

42. Buy-In: Curiosity Team Hats, Flags, Cards & Badges Props & Entry Resources

43. Buy-In: Curiosity Photo/picture

44. Buy-In: Curiosity Furniture/room Unexpected Change

45. Buy-In: Curiosity Dramatic Demonstrations & Apparatus Set-up Unexpected Change

46. Buy-In: Curiosity In Role Unexpected Change

47. Buy-In: Curiosity Special Events Unexpected Change - application

48. Buy-In: Curiosity Guest Speaker /Expert Unexpected Change

49. Buy-In: Curiosity Silence Unexpected Change

50. Buy-In: Curiosity Mysteries

51. “Because I said so.” “Because it’s on the test.” Why do we have to learn this? Buy-In: Relevant

52. Group Brainstorm

53. Buy-In: Relevant Group Brainstorm “OK, so these are the many benefits we’ve come up with for taking part in the lesson......and these could be some of the consequences of NOT taking part. Are we all agreed it would be beneficial to put some effort into this?”

54. Buy-In: Relevant WIIFM? Posters

55. Link to their real life through these SUREFIRE student topics… (in no particular order) blood/guts/gore/horror, The Simpsons, any current Xbox game, latest blockbuster film, Skins, Hollyoaks, A place they all congregate at night (local park/mall), their home town, adolescence, fighting/gangs, triumphing at sport, their style of music, quotes from their idols/heroes, their hobbies/interests Buy-In: Relevant

57. Create a ‘Buzz’

58. Buy-In: Relevant Advertise Your Lesson “Today I’m going to show you a really cool memory technique (used by astronauts and world memory champion Dominic O’Brien) that will help you learn any information without hours of revision.” “Here’s How You Can...(benefit) in... (certain amount of time) without... (usual drawback)”

59. Buy-In: Relevant Analogies & Metaphors

60. Buy-In: Relevant Comparisons Compare the rules to…

61. Buy-In: Relevant Comparisons

62. Buy-In: Relevant Comparisons Romance Family Feuds Gang fights

63. Buy-In: Relevant Comparisons

64. Buy-In: Relevant Case Studies What would you do in this situation? How does this relate to...... ? If you were (the victim/shopkeeper/student/etc) what would you do? What five mistakes did the person make in this situation? What five things did the person do right in this situation? Give three examples of...... from the above case study

65. Personal story/anecdote “Very Nice” Buy-In: Relevant

66. Video

67. Buy-In: Relevant News Item

68. Buy-In: Relevant Local Picture

69. Buy-In: Relevant Local Picture

70. Questions