Day at a Glance
Student Engagement Agenda
One full day of proactive, research-based strategies — practical, easy to implement, and immediately applicable to your classroom.
8:30 am – 12:00 pm
Make the connection between differentiated instruction and student engagement
- Clarify your understanding of what differentiated instruction is and isn't
- Learn the pillars of differentiated instruction
- Assess which components of student engagement and motivation would be most valuable to focus upon
- Understand how multiple intelligences and learning modalities impact student engagement
Gain tools for promoting positive feelings in the classroom
- Explore ways to bring more of yourself into the classroom
- Use movement to stimulate positive affect and deepen understanding
- Learn fun strategies to ask for and respond to student feedback
Discover strategies for stimulating attention and interest
- Keep students on their toes with a variety of randomization techniques
- Capture students' attention and lead them to deeper levels of understanding through specific questioning techniques
- Rediscover storytelling as a way to draw students into learning
Lunch — 12:00 – 1:00 pm
1:00 pm – 3:30 pm
Design lessons that are high on the "meaningful and relevant" meter
- Guide students to make personal connections to key concepts
- Use a fresh approach to visual images to stimulate interest and engagement
- Encourage input from everyone with brainstorming
Help students build confidence and self-efficacy
- Prepare kids to respond on demand and under pressure
- Learn safe, fun ways for students to show what they know
…and much more!
- Reach students you've never reached before
- Facilitate deeper levels of understanding and learning
- Be better equipped to recognize and respond to individual needs and interests
- Collaborate with your colleagues to enhance your learning and teaching effectiveness
- Have more fun with your teaching!
Learning Outcomes
Teachers Will Know…
- Practical methods to build interest with students
- How to motivate the unmotivated
- How to use Storytelling for Project-Based Learning
- How to grab and keep student interest
- How to incorporate fun and divergent ways of learning
- How to develop critical thinking in the student's approach to learning
- How this can be modified for all kids and communities
- How to become real to their students
- How to use human graphing to get immediate feedback from students
- How to quickly assess how effective their lesson is going