Strategies for Increasing Student Engagement
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Do you want to reduce off-task behavior and increase meaningful instructional time? Research and experience show that high levels of student engagement lead to higher achievement and fewer behavioral disruptions—regardless of students’ backgrounds.
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Create Energetic Classrooms Where Students Love to Learn
This self-paced course provides practical, proven strategies to energize your instruction and build a classroom culture where students are actively involved, take risks, and take ownership of their learning. Through three focused modules, you’ll gain actionable techniques to plan and deliver.
Module 1
Planning for Engagement
- Use a variety of activities and assignments within a lesson to increase student engagement.
- Group students effectively for interactive discussions and activities.
- Increase use of formative assessments to drive next steps in instruction.
- Use the TAPPLE strategy of questioning to engage students.
- Increase use of Turn & Talk with focus questions to increase student engagement.
- Increase use of Attention Getters to signal end of discussion groups.
- Use strategies such as Case Studies to increase active involvement on the part of students.
- Use Opportunities to Respond (OTR) including group responses.
Module 2
Collaborative Learning & Classroom Culture
- Increase use of successful collaborative learning techniques.
- Introduce Learning Targets and then teach them.
- Make connections between prior knowledge and new content knowledge to increase comprehension.
- Use a multitude of strategies to assess student learning has taken place.
- Use strategies and opportunities that help students practice, review and apply the new knowledge after collaborative groups are done.
- Plan for errors and immediately correct through prompting, cueing, modeling, and re-teaching.
- Use effective and varied criteria to group students into informal, formal, and base groups.
- Use model lessons to teach students instructional routines for working productively in groups.
- Establish a culture of risk taking. Students are not afraid to make mistakes, so there is a culture of growth. Mistakes are seen as part of the learning process.
- Increase use of oral language on the part of the students. Less teacher talk.
- Increase use of the Gradual Release of Responsibility.
- Use anchor charts to model the steps of accountable talk.
- Rubrics for students to do self-reflection.
- Continually assess the effectiveness of the groups.
Module 3
Pacing, Structure & Tech Integration
- Increase pacing so the students are intellectually engaged in the lesson.
- Increase use of technology to engage students
- Structure lessons with clearly defined beginnings and endings.
- Plan for when, to whom and where the interject continuous questions.
- Ensure pacing is perky not pokey with “think time” built in when necessary.
- Get 8-12 correct student responses per minute.
- Create interactive lessons with a variety of activities.
- Use the strategy of “brightening the lines” which clearly defines learning segments.
- Increase use of student focused lessons.