Engagement+Strategies

 Engagement Strategies

Students learn more when they are actively involved in their education and they have opportunities to think about and apply what they are learning in different settings. Research shows that the more actively engaged students are, the more likely they are to learn and persist toward achieving their academic goals. The strategies and tools below can be used to engage students in your classroom.

[|Marzano: Misconceptions About High Yield Strategies.pdf]
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Collaboartive learning provides opportunity for students to work with others to solve problems or master challenging content. Students develop valuable skills that prepare them to deal with the kinds of situations and problems they will encounter in the workplace, the community, and their personal lives. **Marzano’s Classroom Instruction That Works:** Created by Lee's Summit School District to accompany McREL's best practices []
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 * ¡Coloriń Colorado!:** A bilingual site for families and educators of English language learners

**Instructional Strategies Online:** Created by the Saskatoon Public School District to provide a variety of instructional strategies and best practices []

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 * Cooperative Learning: **Based on Spencer Kagen's research on cooperative learning

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 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">Engagement Strategies: **<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;"> Active engagement tools and lesson plans fromt he University of Missouri

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">**TeAchnology:** Online teacher resources designed to help Kindergarten through High School teachers with active engagement <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">[]

<span style="color: #008000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 150%;">All teachers, regardless of content area, are responsible for teaching literacy. Literacy is the vehicle for knowledge. Without literacy, no knowledge can be gained. [|Reading Instruction Delivery Templates.pdf] <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">[|Killing the Robin.pdf] <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">[|Active Reading: Comprehension and Engagement.pdf] <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">[|Teaching Inference.docx]
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<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">[|10 Technology Enhanced Alternatives to Book Reports.docx]

**<span style="color: #008000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 200%;">GAMES: ** <span style="color: #008000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 150%;">Research shows that high energy, missing information, and mild competition are effective strategies to increase student engagement. Games incorporate each of the three strategies as well as reinforce and increase learning. <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">[|Designing Classroom Games.docx]

**<span style="color: #008000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 200%;">RUBRICS ** : <span style="color: #008000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 150%;">Student accountability is an integral component of student engagement. The sample rubrics below can be adapted for use in all content areas. [|Cooperative Multimedia Project.docx] [|Group Roles.docx] [|Effort Rubric.docx]