Engagement Tips & Tricks
For ALL Learners
Areas of Engagement
Motivation
Progression
Participation
Why those 3 areas?
This information is based off of the research of John Hattie and the Visible Learning Metax. We are only going to focus on Teaching Strategies, but make sure you take a look at the other Domains.
Examples
Motivation
Participation
Progression
Some examples:
Some examples:
Some examples:
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Motivation
Jigsaw
What is it?
Procedure
Students work in small groups to develop knowledge about a particular topic, and a way to teach it to others. These “expert” groups break up and create New “jigsaw” groups, each containing one “expert” student. The “expert” teaches the new group their researched topic.
Example:
Biographical jigsaw activity:
Using the Life and Works of Charles Dickens
After research, they are re-organized into jigsaw groups to produce a presentation on Dickens’ life and work.
They are shared with the class and used as study materials for the unit exam.
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Immediacy
What is it?
Procedures
Reduced social distance between faculty and student due to an increased awareness of approachability, caring, and competence.
Instructional Immediacy Tips
Announcements
Self-Intros
5-Minute Videos
How it “feels” convos?
Targeted Motivation
Intentional Word Choices
More tips...
Call to Action
Communication Timeline
Be Patient!!!
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What is it?
Procedure
Cooperative learning is the instructional use of small groups so that students work together to maximize their own and each other’s learning. Social learning emphasizes the importance of observing and modeling the behaviors, attitudes, and emotional reactions of others.
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—(Juliani 2020)
“As humans, we each have specific sets of circumstances that allow us to learn best. This set of circumstances changes over time, and although it is fluid, a teacher does not have much control over what is going to allow a student to learn best that day –Unless we give choice"
Choice Board
Process for Developing a Choice Board
Select the Content/Unit
Decide the instructional resources/methods that can be used to deliver the content. From this list, students will pick 2-3 that they are interested in
Create an assessment that allows students to demonstrate what they learned
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Participation
Flexible Discussions
Encourage text, audio, or video in Discussions to extend the options for self-expression. Use this as an opportunity to discuss equal access and accessibility in order to ensure students don't accidentally exclude students with sensory disabilities.
Allow students to participate in live Chat during face-to-face sessions, so students can ask questions of each other.
End an active face-to-face class discussion by directing students to Canvas Discussions as a means of continuing the conversation. Start the next class session with a summary or highlights from the online discussion.
Questioning Strategies
Create open Discussion boards and encourage students to post questions and respond to peer posts. Reward students who offer peer-to-peer responses and provide links. Gamify things by letting students "like" other students’ posts and give points to popular questions and answers.
Uncover students' background knowledge using low- or no-stakes Quizzes at the beginning of a Module. Include an Essay question that asks them to explain how
they will succeed in the coming lesson.
Teach students that answering questions is more effective than re-reading or reviewing, even though it's harder mental work. Model for students how they should ask their own questions. Ask questions in the middle of your content Pages, even if you don't collect responses.
Self-Directed Learning
Use differentiated Assignments to provide just in time practice to students with individualized details as a way of scaffolding their learning
Use MasteryPaths to automatically release supplemental materials to students based on their performance on Quizzes or Assignments. These can be used at the beginning of a Module to diagnose background knowledge, or at the end to ensure mastery before students move on.
Encourage students to plan to spend more time on lessons or activities where they have less experience or lower background knowledge. Make some supplemental materials available to those students in Modules so they’re easy to find
WHOA
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Canvas Tools
Discussions
Chat
Pages
Quizzes
Modules
Announcement “likes”
Mastery Paths
Differentiated Assignments
Progression
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Deliberate improvement as part of learning;
Advancement toward learning goals
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Formative Feedback
Alignment Map
Self-Progress Checks
Alignment Map
The learner will:
Enable learners to achieve stated learning objectives
Facilitate & Support learner interaction and engagement
Evaluate progress in achieving the stated objectives
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Module Objective
Learning Materials
Activities
Assessments
But why?........
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Embed a Google Doc!
Key points of Feedback........
Formative Feedback
| Discussions | Quizzes | Assignments |
Rubrics | | | |
Peer Reviews | | | |
Comments/Annotations | | | |
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Other Feedback Options in Canvas
In Speedgrader,
Self-Progress
Checks
Student Progress Checks
See how participation can be related to performance
“What if” function to calculate grade
Use as a guide on “what to do next”
Plan out week by seeing all classes at once
Find knowledge gaps
New Analytics
Grades
To-do
Calendar
Self-Check Quizzes
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How-to’s for Students
20 Collaborative Learning Tips & Strategies for Teachers
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