Levels of Engagement adapted from work by Phil Schlechty

Levels of Engagementadapted from work by Phil Schlechty

Retreatism—No attention and no commitment.Ex. Memorization without application

Ritual Compliance-Low attention and low commitment.Ex. Write the spelling words five times each and use the words in a sentence.

Strategic Compliance-High attention and low commitment. Ex. A read aloud that is devoid of questions or purpose. Students may have high interest but low commitment due to a lack of purpose.

Authentic Engagement- High Attention and high commitment.Ex. Literature cirlces promote ownership of learning because students assume roles such as, discussion director, questioner, vocabulary enricher.

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Authentic Engagement

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Strategic

Compliance


Ritual Compliance


Retreatism


Authentic Engagment(do not print use this page)


UN Project– students research assigned country to find a problem

& propose solutions. Students then role play a delegates meeting

to make informed decisions


Students conduct an experiment to test their own hypothesis & draw

conclusions based on the data.


Students construct a compost bin in science class to breed worms for

school’s annual fishing field trip.


Students creating and maintaining a school or class web-site.


Students learn job skills through a shadowing program that supports

their ILP/IGP


Students design advertising for local businesses using propaganda to be published in the local paper.


High Attention– High Commitment


Students explore the trigonometry that relates to a sample of

architecture of their choice.


Students develop and implement a research-based plan to increase

voter turn-out


Strategic Compliance(do not use)


Read Aloud devoid of questions or purpose.


Students are working in groups of 3 to use song, dance, and

pantomime to illustrate a portion of the text.


High Attention and Low Commitment


Students work in pairs to use the concept of proportionality to

measure the height of objects on campus.


Students respond to teacher questions with CPS remote system.


Students present/defend their solutions/answers to selected

released AP items.


Students are working in groups to translate different scenes from

Macbeth into contemporary english.


Ritual Compliance(do not use)


Students define vocabulary words using an online dictionary.


Students taking notes as they watch a video on the BP Gulf Oil

Crisis.


Students are working at their desks to color in blank maps of Europe. They are using markers, colored

pencils, and their textbook.


Low Attention & Low Commitment


Students define and illustrate key terms from the current unit of

instruction.


Students work in small groups to complete a list of algebra

problems.


Retreatism(do not use)


Students watch & listen as the teacher works examples on board.


No Attention and No Committment


Students memorizing a list of important historical dates.


Students listen as other students recite a sonnet.


Memorization without application.


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Levels of Engagement adapted from work by Phil Schlechty