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Title: Student Engagement


1
Student Engagement
  • Christine Prosser
  • Bob Efken

2
Content Objectives
  • Identify activities that promote interaction and
    student engagement.
  • Recognize strategies to increase student
    accountability, elaborating student responses,
    and support student learning.

3
Language Objective
  • Discuss the importance of planning and allowing
    for interaction activities.
  • Explain how some of the strategies presented can
    work in your classroom or building.

4
Effective Teachers
  • Time is often wasted when teachers are not
    prepared, lack classroom management skills, spend
    too much time making announcements, or passing
    papers. Effective teachers minimize these
    behaviors and maximize time spent actively
    engaging students in the content.
  • (Mastropieri Scruggs, 1994)

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Leinhardt et al. (1982)
  • When teachers spend their time and energy
    teaching students the content students need to
    learn, students learn the material. When
    students spend their time actively engaged in
    activities that relate strongly to the materials
    they will be tested on, they learn more of the
    material.

6
Consider This
  • When you walk into your classroom or are sitting
    down creating lesson plans, what is your mindset?
    Use backward design!!
  • Mindset A
  • What are we going to do today?
  • What am I covering?
  • Mindset B
  • What are the students going to learn today?
  • What do I want them to know by the end of the
    class?
  • How are they going to do this? (this is when you
    dig in your toolbox)

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Student Engagement Through Interaction
  • Interaction with the content student to student,
    student, and teacher to student
  • Cognitively engaged in the content related to the
    desired outcome
  • Approximately 90 to 100 of the time

8
Interaction
  • Teachers tend to do most of the talking in the
    classroom. Effective student engagement with
    interaction balances teacher talk with student
    talk. Learning is more effective when students
    have the opportunity to participate fully in the
    lesson by discussing ideas and information.
  • IF STUDENTS DONT VERBALIZE, STUDENTS DONT
    INTERNALIZE!!

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Teacher Talk
  • How much do teachers talk?
  • Research shows that teachers talk in a regular
    classroom 80 of the time!
  • 60 minute class period
  • Teacher talk 48 minutes
  • Student talk 12 minutes
  • 30 students in class
  • 24 seconds for each students to practice
    academic language

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Why do we need to increase interaction and
student engagement?
  • Makes our students accountable
  • Students retain more with greater depth when they
    interact with the content in meaningful ways
  • Allows students the opportunity to explore
    content and language on their own
  • Provides opportunities for student to student
    interaction to help students develop language
    skills
  • Promotes an environment of academic risk taking
  • Teaches students structure, responsibility, and
    deadlines

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Ways to increase student engagement and
interaction
  • Sentence Frames
  • Randomizing
  • Student to Student discussion
  • Teach students what to say instead of I dont
    know!
  • Well structured activities linked to desired
    outcome
  • Meaningful content focused activities

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Interaction in my classroom
  • How can I reduce the amount of teacher talk in my
    classroom?
  • How often should interaction occur?
  • How can we make our interactions more meaningful?
  • How can I maintain control of my class when
    students are having discussions?
  • How can I encourage and support elaborated
    student responses?

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Ideas
  • Provide structures, sentence frames, randomize,
    scaffold and support, let go!
  • Often, often, often!
  • Directly relate it to the content and learner
    outcome, be efficient.
  • Clearly outlined routines and expectations from
    day one! (First Days of School, Wong)

14
Elaboration Ideas
  • Tell me more about that.
  • What do you mean when you say
  • What else
  • How do you know
  • Why is it important to
  • What does that remind you of?
  • In other words

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What to say instead of I dont know!
  • May I have more information please?
  • Could you please repeat the question?
  • May I have more time please?
  • Where could I find more information?
  • May I please ask a friend for help?
  • When you allow students to say I dont know,
    you are telling them you are not important and I
    know you cant do this.

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Randomizing
  • Develop systems for randomizing.
  • Index cards
  • Popsicle sticks
  • Numbering
  • Its not just about equity, but paying
    attention. Its about the mental rehearsal that
    occurs in your head when you think you might be
    called on.

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Accountability
  • We cannot allow students the opportunity to
    check out.
  • When we have an academic conversation NO ONE is
    excluded.
  • Provide sentence frames to support language and
    accountability.

18
Strategies that promote accountability.
  • Carousel
  • Yes, No, Maybe
  • Each Teach
  • Stay and Stray
  • Round Table
  • Gallery Walk
  • Graffiti Writes

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Sentence Frames
  • I heard...
  • I wrote....
  • I want to mention...
  • I remembered...
  • I want to learn more about....
  • I already knew....
  • I wish ....
  • I was impressed with ...
  • I will use .....
  • I might....
  • I liked...
  • I loved...
  • I agree/disagree with _________
    because__________________.
  • The difference between
  • One interesting point is.....
  • It is important to remember.....
  • The main idea of the section is.....
  • One thing I noticed.....
  • Today I learned.....
  • I think.....
  • I feel....
  • I didn't understand.....
  • I need more information about....
  • I am....
  • I know.....
  • I used.....
  • I am confused about......
  • I need more time on ......
  • I wonder.....
  • I will......
  • I hope.....
  • I need....
  • If I could .....
  • My favorite.....
  • I saw...
  • I read...

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More sentence frames
  • Music Music has many different articulations,
    including _________. This articulation makes
    music more interesting by __________.
  • Math I know this triangle is a __________
    triangle because ___________. There are several
    ways to find __________, including ___________.
  • Science The _______ of a cell is important
    because __________. If I add ________ to the
    mixture, the result will likely be __________.
  • Health __________ is an unhealthy habit
    because __________. If I ___________, then my
    body will likely respond by _____________.

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More
  • Comm. Arts The sentence I wrote could be made
    better by ____________. The improved sentence is
    ______________.
  • Social Studies If World War III broke out
    today, our economy might _________. My opinion
    is based upon __________.
  • Art Art can be an expression of ___________.
    The artist likely chose the color __________
    because ____________.
  • Drama My characters motivation to move from A
    to B is _________. The line _________ shows me
    that my character is feeling the emotion of
    __________ and so my character would
    ______________.

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And more
  • Nutrition If I add more ________ to this
    recipe the result would be _________. I know
    this because ___________.
  • Business One action that may be taken to
    increase profits in a business is __________.
    Taking this action increases profits because
    __________.
  • Computers If my antivirus software shows the
    error __________, I know _________. In the EXCEL
    if I want to __________ I need to use the
    function _______.
  • Foreign Language The word ________ may be
    derived from the word ________. The evidence I
    have to support my opinion is _________.

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Grouping Configurations
  • Grouping configurations need to support the
    desired outcomes.
  • Explicitly plan for grouping opportunities.
  • Do not use grouping configurations if students
    can complete the task on their own, or without
    purpose.

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Student Engagement Considerations
  • What modalities (reading, writing, listening,
    speaking) do students need to use to access your
    content?
  • What are the important content concept words I
    want students to understand and be able to use?
    (vocabulary)
  • What scaffolding and structures are present to
    promote student engagement.

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Vocabulary Strategies
  • Personal Dictionaries
  • 4-Corners Vocabulary
  • Use Cognates
  • Text Scavenger Hunt
  • Classifying
  • Who In This Room?
  • White Boards speed game
  • Smartboard game templates http//www.murray.k12.
    ga.us/teacher/kara20leonard/Mini20T's/Games/Game
    s.htm

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Student Engagement Misconceptions
  • I have too much to get through. I dont have
    time for my students to interact with each other.
  • Students never stay on topic when they are
    talking to each other. It becomes chaotic.
  • I am dummying down my content if I have the
    students talk about it.
  • I dont teach language in my class. In my class
    they do.
  • When I have students talk or call on them
    randomly, it causes them anxiety. I cant do
    that to them.
  • Groups just dont work.
  • Interaction means I have to do silly games.

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Triads Discussion
  • In your triads, use the sentence stems below to
    discuss the following ideas. Each person in the
    triad will respond to one stem.
  • Students should have the opportunities to
    interact
  • We avoid allowing interaction
  • I agree/I disagree/I also think

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Content Objective
  • Identify activities that promote interaction and
    student engagement.
  • Recognize strategies to increase student
    accountability, elaborating student responses,
    and support student learning.

29
Language Objective
  • Discuss the importance of planning and allowing
    for interaction activities.
  • Explain how some of the strategies presented can
    work in your classroom or building.

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For More Information
  • Bob Efken (314) 256-8685
  • befken_at_bayless.k12.mo.us
  • Christine Prosser (314) 256-8686
  • cprosser_at_bayless.k12.mo.us
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