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?