Building Engagement through Effective Lesson Design

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Building Engagement through Effective Lesson
Design

• Tapp New Teacher Meeting
• 11/16/06
• Jennifer Frisch

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The Next Step

• Many of you listed interest, motivation, and
  engagement as problems you are facing.
• Todays Essential Question
• How can you plan engaging and effective lessons?

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Word Map
What is it like?
What is it?
Students maintaining high interest and
motivation during lesson.
Energy
Interest
The Word
Engagement
Excitement
Actively Participate
Work Cooperatively
Performance Tasks
What do students do?
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The Five Cs of Engagement

• Curiosity the desire to know
• Collaboration learning is social before
  intellectual
• Creativity the desire to create
• Choice no one likes to be told what to do!
• Competence doing something well

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10 of what we read
20 of what we hear
Passive
30 of what we see
50 of what we see and hear
70 of what we say
Active
90 of what we say and do
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How do we get the attention of the students
brain?

• Two factors primarily
• influence what our brains
• pay attention to are
• Meaning
• Emotion

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Meaning To make information meaningful Link
to Prior Knowledge

• Connect to experience they have had or
  information they already know
• OR
• Create an experience with them.

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Emotion

• Need to have a hook to motivate
• Not too much BUT enough to pique interest and get
  them engaged.

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Word
Splash
"We hold these Truths to be self-evident."
Declaration of Independence
life and liberty
1776
Thomas Jefferson
John Hancock
unjust rule
King George
traitor
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Possible SentencesDirections Use
three or more of the following words in a
sentence that you think may make sense. Do not
look up the words or read in your book at this
point. Just give it a try using what know now.

• Economic system
• Economic development
• Exchanging
• Saving
• Investing

• Scarcity
• Interdependence
• Producing
• Consuming
• Resources

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Paired Verbal Fluency

• Set UpStudents pair and decide who will be 1
  and 2 in each pair. Announce the topic.
• Round 11 talks about topic and 2 listens for 45
  secondsStudents switch roles and repeat\
• Round 21 talks more and 2 listens for 30
  secondsStudents switch roles and repeat
• Process or Write
• Things you and your partner share
• Ideas shared that need clarification
• Questions about the topic

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Think, Pair, Share

• Interactive lectures increase student retention
  of information by 20.
• Student accountability for learning during
  lectures increases retention of information by
  55.
• Make sure you are asking them to share.

• Learning is first a social activity before it is
  a cognitive activity.

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Nonlinguistic Representation
Graphic Organizers
Graphs, charts, and graphic organizers help
students see the connections among related
terms Provide depth of meaning Provide visual
representations of concepts Organize
information Assist with story retelling,
summarizing, writing
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Hot Seat

• Before class starts, the teacher places questions
  on sticky notes and places them underneath
  student desks (hidden from view).
• Ask students to discover if they are in a Hot
  Seat by looking underneath for sticky notes
• Students who find questions take turns reading
  the questions to the class and either answering
  or seeking answers from the audience.
• Students can complete this as paired or small
  group activity.
• Make sure questions are accessible to students

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Partners A B

• Partner A will talk nonstop for a designated
  amount of time on a topic of study. ( Partner
  B..shhhhhhh!)
• Partner B now starts talking for more time but
  may not repeat anything said by Partner A. (
  Partner A ..shhhhhh!)

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The Important Thing.

• The important thing about ________ is _______
• Another detail
• Another Detail
• Another Detail
• But the important thing about ________ is _______
• The first and last sentences are nearly identical

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Mnemonic Devices
New knowledge is more effectively stored in the
long term memory when it is associated with
anything that is familiar.
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Mnemonic Devices

• Songs
• Poetry
• Plays
• Gestures
• Raps
• Acronyms

• My Very Educated Mother Just Served Us Nachos
• (Planets)
• ROY G BIV
• (Colors)
• Others?

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Before you go

• Evaluation forms
• Suggestions for next month?
• Questions/Comments?