7 Strategies for Engaging Your Students Using Digital Tools and Sound Pedagogy

Purpose & objective

Purpose: To provide participants with a framework for understanding the engagement of their students, and a set of 7 strategies for increasing that engagement.

Objective: Participants will gain insights into the 3 types of engagement (cognitive, social-emotional, and behavioral). they will leave with definitions and rubrics for the five levels of student engagement.

Model: Student engagement: cognitive, social-emotional, and behavioral
levels of engagement: intrinsic, tactical, compliant, withdrawn, defiant.

Technology Interventions: Participants will increase their knowledge and understanding of 7 instructional strategies that research says increase student engagement. They will leave with citations of that literature and practical examples of each of the 7, including Padlets where their fellow participants shared their experiences and ideas. instructional strategies include: a) Collaboration/affiliation; b) evidence-based reasoning; c) student agency, d) knowledge construction, e) goals and data-informed learning, f) visualization and multimodal learning, g) Intellectual safety. Digital tools used in examples include: Zoom, Padlet, Data Studio, Google Docs, Mentimeter, Pear Deck, Excel, etc.

Evidence of Success: Participants will actively engage in mentimeter surveys on attributes of engaged students, share examples of the 7 instructional strategies they already use in their classrooms, and actively participate in chat room as presenter intentionally elicits their input.

Outline

7 minutes: Introduction
The presenters' model of engagement will be introduced and participants will answer 3 questions in an online survey that exemplifies how they might gauge their students cognitive, social-emotional, and behavioral engagement levels.Definitions and rubrics will be made available as a resource.

4 minutes for each of 7 instructional Strategies that engage students.
Each segment will include: What the strategy is, why it is important, 2 examples of the strategy in practice.

5 minutes: Participants will join a padlet with the 7 strategies as heading. they will share an example of how they already use one of the strategies to engage students.

5 minutes: Q&A--- with questions submitted in a back channel

Supporting research

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