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Motivating and Engaging Students Presented by Dr. Robert Marzano and Dr. Debra Pickering

+Dr. Robert Marzano, CEO Marzano Research Laboratory

  Introduction

 Course objectives:

 To learn a model of attention and engagement  To learn specific strategies to help students

answer in the affirmative to: how do I feel? Am I interested? Is this important? And can I do it?

 To learn how to use these strategies to enhance student achievement

 To enhance students’ 21st century skills

 To enhance teachers’ self-knowledge

Debra Pickering, Senior Scholar Marzano Research Laboratory

+Model of Attention and Engagement

Attention

 Emotions: How do I feel?

 Interest: Am I interested?

Engagement

 Importance: Is this important?

  Efficacy: Can I do this?

+Research Review

 Relevant to:  How do I feel?  Am I interested?  Is this important?  Can I do this?

+Engagement

 One of the most fundamental and vexing challenges of school reform

 Engagement vs. compliance

Permanent  Memory  

Working  Memory  

Sensory  Memory  

Human  Beings  

Permanent  Memory  

Working  Memory  

Sensory  Memory  

Human  beings  

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The  ba9le  for  Working  Memory  

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The  ba9le  for  Working  Memory  

+Model of Attention and Engagement

Jen Murdoch, Buffalo Elementary: Engagement

+Teacher’s Responsibilities in Relation to Student Engagement

 To make students feel safe

 To find students’ interests

 To plan ahead

 To foreground your own enthusiasm

 To individualize instruction

 To make students feel capable

 To provide individual attention

+Teachers’ Responsibilities, Cont’d

 Create a cooperative culture in the classroom and school

 Work with students to address issues of engagement

 Facilitate students’ sense of responsibility for their own learning