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Understanding Student Engagement

Understanding Student Engagement. Materials needed for today: Handout, Webinar #1. Introductions. A = microphone B = chat box C = pass. Please tell us …. Who you are. What brought you here today. Whether or not you’ve participated in a webinar before. Leslie Snyder

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Understanding Student Engagement

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  1. Understanding Student Engagement • Materials needed for today: • Handout, Webinar #1

  2. Introductions A = microphone B = chat box C = pass Please tell us …. • Who you are. • What brought you here today. • Whether or not you’ve participated in a webinar before.

  3. Leslie Snyder Moderator, NRLC Deb McFarlane-Smith Facilitator Jann Edney Moderator, ERLC Wanda Dechant Moderator, NRLC

  4. engagement

  5. Canadian Education Association The Learning Bar Galileo Educational Network http://cea-ace.ca/home.cfm

  6. Student engagement is……..

  7. Student Engagement Social – participation in the life of the school Institutional – participation in the requirements of school success Intellectual– participation in learning WDYDIST, First National Report May, 2009

  8. Student Engagement Sense of belonging Participation Attendance Intellectual Engagement A = more than 80% B = 66% - 80% C = 50% - 65% D = less than 40%

  9. Are Canadian youth engaged in school?WDYDIST, First National Report, May 2009

  10. What does intellectual engagement look like?

  11. “Flow” Csikszentmihalyi(1996)

  12. Engagement is about self-determined commitment to the learning.

  13. What does disengagement look like? • a strategy for improving educational achievement

  14. Engagement is both a powerful factor that contributes to achievement and a valuable outcome in itself.

  15. Classroom Practices that Make a Difference • Attention to relationships in the classroom • Attention to work that is relevant, meaningful and authentic for students • Thoughtful, intentional designs for learning • Use of assessment to improve learning and guide teaching

  16. Classroom Practices that Make a Difference • Attention to relationships in the classroom • Attention to work that is relevant, meaningful and authentic for students • Thoughtful, intentional designs for learning • Use of assessment to improve learning and guide teaching

  17. Relationships play a significant role in student engagement.

  18. What is engaging about this website?

  19. Relevant…

  20. World Wide Web

  21. Cell Phones & Video Cameras

  22. Interactive Games

  23. Social Networking

  24. Online Learning Modules

  25. SMART Boards

  26. Connected to world outside classroom…

  27. Authentic…

  28. Classroom Practices that Make a Difference • Attention to relationships in the classroom • Attention to work that is relevant, meaningful and authentic for students • Thoughtful, intentional designs for learning • Use of assessment to improve learning and guide teaching

  29. Classroom Practices that Make a Difference • Attention to relationships in the classroom • Attention to work that is relevant, meaningful and authentic for students • Thoughtful, intentional designs for learning • Use of assessment to improve learning and guide teaching

  30. Alignment… learning outcomes instruction assessment

  31. Aligned with learning outcomes…

  32. “provide evidence that air takes up space and exerts pressure, and identify examples of these properties in everyday applications” Specific Learner Expectation 6-5.1 Grade Six Science

  33. Deep/critical thinking…

  34. Deep/critical thinking…

  35. Disciplinary inquiry… If you have trouble viewing the video, check If the video comes up without trouble, check When you finish viewing the video, check

  36. Substantive conversation…

  37. Engaging Learning Tasks

  38. There is a close relationship between students’ experience ofengagementand student learning.

  39. Engagement is about a self-determined commitment to the learning.

  40. Teaching practices have apowerful effect upon student engagement.

  41. Thank You deb.mcfarlane-smith@gov.ab.ca

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