Student Engagement

Arroyo Valley High SchoolJanuary 28, 2013

Starter

• On the back of the article please respond to this prompt:– List three things you know about student

engagement.– Why is student engagement so important to

learning?

Agenda• Starter• Objectives• Article• Why ensure Student Engagement?• What is Student Engagement?• “The Big Four”• Group discussions• Exit Ticket• Release back to departments

MotivationEffective schools and teachers promote students’ understanding of what it takes to learn and confidence in their capacity to succeed in school by providing challenging instruction and support for meeting high standards.

- Committee on Increasing High School Students’ Engagement and Motivation to Learn (2003)

Objectives

• Develop a common understanding of student engagement

• Identify the four contributing factors of student engagement

• Identify engagement strategies• Identify two engagement strategies to be

implemented in your classroom

Article

• Read the article, Big Four: Student Engagement (5 minutes)– As you read highlight/underline/circle four ideas

that resonate with you

Why Student Engagement?

• Share your response to Starter #2 with a partner (2 minutes)

Why Student Engagement?• Students are not attentive to what is being said in a

lecture 40% of the time (Meyer & Jones, 1993)• Students retain 70% of the information in the first ten

minutes of a lecture but only 20% in the last ten minutes (Meyer & Jones, 1993)

• High levels of active engagement during lessons are associated with higher levels of achievement and student motivation (Ryan & Deci, 2000)

• Explicit and systematic teaching does not preclude the use of active engagement techniques. In fact, one of the most prominent features of well delivered direct instruction is high levels of active engagement on the part of all students (Archer, 2007)

What is Student Engagement?

• Individually, define the concept, “student engagement” (2 minutes)

• In partners, share definitions (2 minutes per partner)

• At the end we will develop a common understanding of student engagement

Contributing Factors of Engagement

• Emotions– “How do I feel?”

• Interest– “Am I interested?”

• Importance– “Is this important?”

• Self Efficacy– “Can I do this?”

Marzano & Pickering (2011)

In Groups• Emotions– Identify and share two ways you address students’

“emotions”• Interest– Identify and share two ways you pique students’

“interest”• Importance• Identify and share two ways you communicate the

“importance” of your content• Self-Efficacy• Identify and share two ways you build students’ “self-

efficacy”

Some Engagement Strategies• Questioning techniques/response routines• Effective scaffolding• Effective pacing• Conveying enthusiasm• Use of appropriate humor• “Friendly controversy”• Physical movement• Peer competition/games• Providing consistent effective feedback• Relevance of content

Questioning

Dismissive Inclusive

Instead of… Try…

Teacher: Can anyone tell me what the three branches of government are?

Students: “No”

•Partner A, tell partner B one of the branches of government we discussed yesterday.•Partner A, describe to your partner the function of the legislative branch of government.

Do you have any questions?

Students: “No!”

•What are your questions about the functions of the judicial branch?•Our objective has been to describe the function of each of the three branches of government. What are your questions regarding the legislative branch?

Feldman (2009)

Response Routines

• In high performing classrooms volunteer responses was used less than 10% of time while in lower performing classrooms volunteered response was used over 90% of time (Berkeley)

Building Efficacy ThroughVerbal Feedback

Non-specific Feedback Specific Feedback

Nice try.

Good job.

Better luck next time.

Try harder.

Last week, you were unable to identify the slope of a line. Today, you can identify the slope with ease.

Ever since you’ve started asking questions in class, I find it easier to teach you since I know what you do and do not understand.

You already know how to ______. You’ll use that today in order to ______.

What is Student Engagement?

• When we hear the term student engagement, we mean:– Interest and investment in their own learning– Student motivation– Appealing to different learning styles

Exit Ticket

• Write down one new idea or engagement strategy

• Write down and share with a partner two engagement strategies that you currently utilize or will implement in your classroom

Review Objectives

• Developed a common understanding of student engagement

• Identified the four contributing factors of student engagement

• Identified engagement strategies• Identified two engagement strategies to be

implemented in your classroom

The Real Reason…