Boost Student Engagement and Motivation In Your
Classroom
Today’s Webinar
• Student Motivation
• Activities for Engaged Learning
Today’s Webinar
• Student Motivation
• Activities for Engaged Learning
Motivation:
To be moved to do something
The degree to which a student puts effort into and focus on learning in order to experience success
Four Critical Factors in Student Motivation
• Competence/Mastery
• Autonomy
• Value/Interest
• Relatedness
(Bandura, 1996; Dweck, 2010; Pintrich, 2003; Ryan & Deci, 2000; Seifert, 2004)
Student Engagement
Student willingness, need, desire, and compulsion, to participate in, and be successful in the learning process.
(Bomia, Beluzo, Demeester, Elander, Johnson, & Sheldon, 1997)
Benefits of Student Engagement
• Increased motivation
• Greater attention and focus
• Retention of learning
• Enhanced ability to transfer learning to multiple contexts
Classroom Engagement
• During a lesson, aim to engage students 90-100% of the time.
• Lessons where students are engaged 50% of the time or less are an ineffective use of instructional time.
• Wasting just 5 minutes a day will add up to 15 hours of lost instructional time in the course of a 180 day school year.
The Engaged Classroom
• All students are authentically engaged at least some of the time or most of students are authentically engaged most of the time.
• Ritual compliance and re-treatism is rarely observed and rebellion is non-existent.
The Well Managed Classroom• Compliant and orderly
classroom
• Picture of traditional education
• Most students appear to be working
• Little evidence of rebellion
• Retreatism is a real danger
The Pathological Classroom• Students are off-task
• Retreatism and rebellion are easy to observe
• Some degree of authentic, ritual, and passive engagement
• Teacher spends most of time dealing with rebelling students rather than teaching
Great Big Piece of Advice…
Activities for Increased Engagement
Pretest with a Partner
• One test
• One pencil
• One computer
• Similar to posttest
• Not scored
• Teacher circulates around the room
Immediate Response (5-7 second wait-time)
• Stand Up – Sit Down
• Thumbs Up – Thumbs Down
• Secret Answer
Response Cards (5-10 second wait-time)
• Agree/Disagree
• True/False
• Yes/No
• Multiple Choice
• Greater Than/Less Than
• Emotions
Pause and Process (10:2)
• Think-Pair-Share
• Quick Writes
• One Word Splash
• Quick Draw
Think-Pair-Share
• Ask students to reflect on question or prompt
• Give them time to process (30 seconds)
• Turn to partner
• Discuss Responses
• Share Response
Gallery Walk• Students walk to see
other student responses/ideas
• Whiteboard on desk
• Chart paper around the room
• Procedures in place
• Time to discuss
End of Lesson Responses• A-Z Topic Summary
Individually
In pairs
• 3-2-1
3 Facts I learned
2 Questions
1 Opinion
Find Your Match • Rhyming Words
• Uppercase/Lowercase
• Antonyms/Synonyms
• Words/Definitions
• Problem/Solution
• Words/Pictures
Dictation
Multisensory (auditory, visual,
kinesthetic, tactile)
Increases Working Memory
Integrates all Language Skills/Modalities– Listening– Speaking– Writing– Reading
Building Vocabulary During Dictation/Instruction
Always use the word in context.
Quick Check for understanding (1,2,3). 1 = The word is new to me
2 = Kind of familiar or I could probably figure it out in context
3 = I understand this word and use this word in my writing
Questions?
Clubhouse
Clubhouse
Mini Games
Mini Games
Mini Games
Teacher Preview
Teacher Preview
Teacher Preview
Common Core Report
Questions?
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