Social Studies Conference Region IV ESC

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Social Studies ConferenceRegion IV ESC

• Instructional Strategies that Increase Learner
  Engagement
• Holland Poulsen, M.Ed.
• holland.poulsen_at_aliefisd.net
• [phone] x6660

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Learner Engagement

• Engagement precedes learning!
• An Action PlanYou can put your heart and soul
  into lesson design, but if students arent
  engaged, learning suffers. Working on the Work by
  Phillip C. Schlechty, Jossey-Bass.
• Learner engagement highlights characteristics
  that make classroom work engaging, relevant, and
  more effective.

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What is engagement?

• To obtain and hold the attention of
• To be actively committed
• To participate
• To be engrossed
• To involve oneself or become occupied

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8 Characteristics of Engaging Student Work

1. Product Focus
2. Clear Product Standards
3. Protection from Initial Failure
4. Affiliation
5. Affirmation
6. Choice
7. Novelty and Variety
8. Authenticity

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Hook StrategiesActivate Prior Knowledge

• Before Reading
• List-Group-Label

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List-Group-Label

• Using post-it notes, write down what you think
  you know about the civil rights movement.
• Use one post-it note for each statement.
• Once you have 1-3 thoughts written down, please
  come place them on the butcher paper.

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Hook StrategiesActivate Prior Knowledge

• Before Reading
• List-Group-Label
• Look List

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Look and List

• Get an index card with a vocabulary term (image)
  listed on one side.
• Place a post-it note on the back.
• Ask at least three different people who they
  think the person is and what they did to
  influence the community. Write what they think on
  the post-it note.

• Meet with the other people in the classroom that
  have the same term (person) as you. Create a
  group definition and write it down.
• Be prepared to share with everyone after five
  minutes.

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Line StrategiesThe Content

• During Reading
• Character Quotes

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Character Quotes

• Read through the list of quotes attached.
• Think about the person who might have said the
  words quoted.
• Write down 2-3 words that describe one of the
  characteristics of the person who might have
  spoken these words.
• Turn and talk to someone near you and share at
  least one character trait that you listed.

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Line StrategiesThe Content

• During Reading
• Character Quotes
• Emotional Timeline

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Emotional Timeline

• The idea behind this activity is to chart the
  main events in the main characters life as told
  in the story being read. As you read you record
  the main events that occur in the characters
  life. These should include important or
  significant things that may be good or bad in the
  life of the character. When all events have been
  recorded from the story, you chart them on a line
  graph according to how good or bad they are in
  the life of the main character.

• When all events are charted you can see the how
  the emotions of the main character changed
  throughout the book. You can discuss the good and
  bad things that have happened to the character.
  Were there more good or more bad events?

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Sinker StrategiesProcess New Information

• After Reading
• Definition Poem

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Definition Poem
__________________________________________________
________ Name it _________________________________
_________________________ Describe it, Rename
it _______________________________________________
___________ Tell where it would be
found ____________________________________________
______________ Tell more about it ________________
__________________________________________ Use
emotion words to tell how you feel about
this _____________________________________________
_____________ Explain why you used the emotion
words on line 5
Example Eagle Our national bird Soaring near
mountains and trees King of the air Awesome
predator Respected and feared by all
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Sinker StrategiesProcess New Information

• After Reading
• Definition Poem
• Bio-Poem

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Bio-Poem
Line 1 First Name Line 2 Title or occupation
of the person Line 3 Four words that describe
the person Line 4 Lover of (3 things or ideas)
Line 5 Who believed (1 or more ideas) Line 6
Who wanted (3 things) Line 7 Who used (3
methods of things) Line 8 Who gave (3 things)
Line 9 Who said (a quote) Line 10 Last Name
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Learner Engagement8 Characteristics of Engaging
Student Work

• Product Focus
• Clear Product Standards
• Protection from Initial Failure
• Affiliation
• Affirmation
• Choice
• Novelty and Variety
• Authenticity

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Thank you!

• Instructional Strategies that Increase Learner
  Engagement
• Holland Poulsen, M.Ed.
• holland.poulsen_at_aliefisd.net
• [phone] x6660