What does Engagement Look Like?
(Adapted from "Overcoming Textbook Fatigue.")
In an engaged classroom, the textbook or one central text is seldom the center of the teaching. Students who are looking for understanding to a problem or topic should guide the classroom instruction. Often, students read their text without really understanding the information. They are searching for the answers to a worksheet and to appease the teacher and get the grade. There is little interaction with the words and little comprehension. As teachers, we are trying to instill a sense of curiosity in students so they want to learn and want to use the resources, like a text book to find those answers.
Below is a chart that shows a model for creating engaging literacy lessons in your classroom.
Ideas for the classroom to create engaging lessons:
1. GRAB THEM RIGHT AWAY! Provide a question on the board as students enter the room that sparks that desire to learn. By posing a question for them as they come in to class, already you have engaged the students to want to learn and in turn want to interact with the text that could possibly give them the answer they want. They are now in control of their learning. You posed something to intrigue them, they now want to learn!
This question that you pose could be in turn, your learning goal for the day. The students don't know that you are in a sense "tricking" them into wanting to learn that day! But you have now set them up for their own inquiry.
(Adapted from "Overcoming Textbook Fatigue.")
In an engaged classroom, the textbook or one central text is seldom the center of the teaching. Students who are looking for understanding to a problem or topic should guide the classroom instruction. Often, students read their text without really understanding the information. They are searching for the answers to a worksheet and to appease the teacher and get the grade. There is little interaction with the words and little comprehension. As teachers, we are trying to instill a sense of curiosity in students so they want to learn and want to use the resources, like a text book to find those answers.
Below is a chart that shows a model for creating engaging literacy lessons in your classroom.
Ideas for the classroom to create engaging lessons:
1. GRAB THEM RIGHT AWAY! Provide a question on the board as students enter the room that sparks that desire to learn. By posing a question for them as they come in to class, already you have engaged the students to want to learn and in turn want to interact with the text that could possibly give them the answer they want. They are now in control of their learning. You posed something to intrigue them, they now want to learn!
This question that you pose could be in turn, your learning goal for the day. The students don't know that you are in a sense "tricking" them into wanting to learn that day! But you have now set them up for their own inquiry.
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