1. No More Clock Watchers!
Motivating and Engaging All Our Learners

2. 3. Motivation? Engagement?
Catch
hold
4. 5. 6. 7. Levels of disengagement
Non-compliance: retreatism& rebellion
Compliance:
strategic & ritual
Based on the work of Phil Schlechty
8. What does engagement look like?
9. Flowing with the ideas
10. Getting lost in the work
11. Dwelling in ideas
12. Wanting to participate
13. Willing to work through tough stuff
14. Staying on taskat least most of the time
15. Valuing the task as challenging enough that the work is worth doing
16. Aiming to get it right not just to get the grade
17. Investing in the thinking
18. Investing in the learning
19. Being immersed in the moment
20. Setting a goal to understand, not to just comply
21. Metaphor or simile for engagement?
22. Csikszentmihalyi: state of flow
23. And why does it matter?
Humans need more than anything to be engaged with significant tasks[L]earning declines when schools ignore this need or set up circumstances that occupy rather than engage.
-- BrosnahananedNeuleib
24. 4th Grade Slump
For complicated reasons, some kids lose their mojo when they get to fourth grade.
Principals and teachers around the country are growing increasingly concerned with what they call the fourth-grade slump. The malaise, which can strike children any time between the end of the second and the middle of fifth grade, is marked by a declining interest in reading and a gradual disengagement from school.
-- Newsweek, 2007
25. Engagement trumps SES
Krisch, de Jong, LaFontaine, McQueen, Mendelovits & Monseur
15-year-olds whose parents have the lowest occupational status but who are highly engaged in reading achieve better reading scores than students whose parents have high or medium occupational status but who are poorly engaged in reading.
26. Adolescents and Engagement
Educators who teach reading and writing skills without addressing student engagement are unlikely to yield substantial improvements. As anyone who has spent time with middle and high school students can attest, attempting to build the skills of disengaged adolescents is a futile enterprise. Whether expressed as defiant noncompliance or passive checking out, the student who refuses to learn will succeed in that effort.
--NCREL
27. Chronic disengagement
40% to 60% of adolescent students are chronically disengaged in their learning. This disturbing statistic refers not just to academically reluctant students but also to students who are college-bound.
--National Academy of Science
28. So what does this mean for me?
29. What can teachers do?
Designing the context for motivation and engagement
30. 31. Watch the Animoto to learn about the 6 Cs
32. CHALLENGE
THE LYNCH PIN
33. The golden ratio between challenges and skills
34. Csikszentmihalyi:Challenge/Skills Match
High
FLOW
Challenge
Low
High
Skills
35. High
Challenge
BOREDOM
RELAXATION
APATHY
Low
High
Medium
Skills
36. High
AROUSAL
ANXIETY
FLOW
WORRY
CONTROL
Challenge
APATHY
RELAXATION
BOREDOM
Low
High
Skills
37. Pat Jackson
38. Shifting her practices
Whoever is doing the talking/reading/writing/thinking is doing the learning
An provocative question that required deep thought
A variety of text that presented different perspectives
Teacher modeling and then turning the thinking over to the students
A fight against her yearning to save the kids
39. Reciprocal reading
A collaborative scaffold for students to read challenging text
40. Challenge
Condition 1: Challenge
41. Caring Classroom Community
Condition 2: Caring Classroom Community
42. Checking In/Checking Out
Condition 3: Checking In/Checking out
43. Choice
Condition 4: Choice
44. Collaboration
Condition 5: Collaboration
45. Celebration
Condition 6: Celebration
46. And now to Marthas class
Shifts
In assessing for understanding
In challenging students to do the thinking rather than doing the thinking for them