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Content Rigor and Relevance |
Assessment and planning procedures provide a concise and systematic way to create a program that is both challenging and captivating for the student. Skim pages 7-19 of Teaching for Rigor: A Call for a Critical Instructional Shift describing the essential shift in classroom instruction teachers will need to ensure that students achieve the level of rigor required by the Common Core Standards. Read The four characteristics of authentic learning, which briefly correlates how applying knowledge learned in lessons to real-life situations equates to practical problem solving outside the classroom.
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Piquing Student Interest |
In this short article Creating Curious Thinkers, the author describes different approaches to presenting academic curriculum in non-structured ways that draw students’ curiosities from within themselves while keeping them engaged in a subject. Dynamic lesson presentation nurtures the student’s inner curiosity and fosters the building blocks to understand a subject. Cultivating a learning environment that focuses on the student’s relationships with the teacher, parents, and fellow peers is a main focal point in Strengthening Student Engagement. Learning relationship levels described in this article provide a basis for assessment and allow a benchmark for appropriate changes that can be made by both student and teacher along with parental engagement.How Students Learn identifies methods to utilize "Emotional Engagement" as a means to motivate the student's learning process. Bookmark this article, which offers additional links to resources on "Emotional Engagement" covering a wide range of curriculum strategies. Read about the Seven Essentials for Project-Based Learning as it address a real life example of an academic assignment. The framework of this design touches on key elements such as collaboration between peers, connection to subject matter, and creativity. The final result will have meaning to each student while satisfying an academic curriculum. Explore Project-Based Learning for resource examples on how to implement PBL. Students are more apt to retain what they learn and stay engaged in the learning process if they are learning through a hands-on approach to real-life based projects.
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Impact of Engagement on Learning |
Strengthening Student Engagement: What do Students Want (and what really motivated them)? shares the four goals by which students are engaged-success, curiosity, originality, and satisfying relationships. Behavior: How Motivation Affects Learning and Behavior points out to teachers the importance of identifying both the intrinsic and external influences on a student's motivation. This article is one of the components of an existing lesson on Motivation and Achievement. Individual and Group Achievements: Numerous examples of how teachers can keep content relevant while captivating the student's interest are sited in Engagement Strategies. See how each example illustrates engagement practices in the classroom and its influence on learning. Formal and Informal Assessment Results: Download and read Classroom Assessment to see why Testing and Learning are not mutually exclusive. This intuitive article provides methods and examples to measure what a student has learned and strategies to accurately identify student comprehension.
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