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Tuning In: Engaging All Learners Jan. 30 th , 2012 Cariboo Hill Secondary, Burnaby Faye Brownlie www. slideshare.net

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a half day session to consider different conceptions/descriptions of student engagement and to explore ways to improve student engagement

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Tuning  In:    Engaging  All  Learners  

Jan.  30th,  2012  Cariboo  Hill  Secondary,  Burnaby  

Faye  Brownlie  www.  slideshare.net  

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Learning  IntenEons  

•  I  have  a  beGer  idea  of  what  counts  in  engaging  students.  

•  I  have  a  plan  to  incorporate  a  different  teaching  strategy/sequence  into  my  teaching.  

•  I  have  a  plan  to  increase  student  choice  in  my  assignments  or  in  my  assessments.  

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Engagement •  Schlechty:    high  aGenEon  and  commitment  –  task  or  acEvity  has  inherent  meaning  or  value  to  the  student  

•  Stuart  Shanker  –  self-­‐regulaEon;  calmly  focused  and  alert  

•  Karen  Hume  –  competence,  creaEvity,  context,  community,  challenge  

•  Brownlie  and  Schnellert  –  voice  and  choice  

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The  Progress  Principle:  Using  Small  Wins  to  Ignite  Joy,  Engagement,  and  

CreaEvity  at  Work  –  Amabile  &  Kramer  

•  Analyzed  238  electronic  daily  diaries  from  people  doing  innovaEve  work  in  7  companies  

•  What  was  the  #1  source  of  engagement?  

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#1  source  of  engagement  

•  Making  progress  on  a  task  that  day,  no  maGer  how  trivial  

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Causes  of  disengagement  

•  Micro-­‐management  or  a  lack  of  autonomy  

•  Failure  of  management  to  communicate  clear  goals  

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BC Learning Principles

•  Learning  requires  the  acEve  parEcipaEon  of  the  learner  

•  People  learn  in  a  variety  of  ways  and  at  different  rates  

•  Learning  is  both  an  individual  and  a  group  process  

•  Ministry  of  EducaEon  

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Features  of  High-­‐Engagement  Learning  Environments  

•  available  supply  of  appropriately  difficult  texts  •  opEons  that  allow  students  more  control  over  the  texts  to  be  read  and  the  work  to  be  accomplished  

•  the  collaboraEve  nature  of  much  of  the  work  •  the  opportunity  to  discuss  what  was  read  and  wriGen  

•  the  meaningfulness  of  the  acEviEes  

•  Allington  &  Johnston,  2002;  Presley,  2002;    Wigfield,  1997;  Almasi  &  McKeown,  1996;  Turner,  1995  

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Frameworks

It’s All About Thinking – Brownlie & Schnellert, 2009

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Universal Design for Learning MulEple  means:  -­‐to  tap  into  background  knowledge,  to  acEvate  prior  knowledge,  to  increase  engagement  and  moEvaEon  

-­‐to  acquire  the  informaEon  and  knowledge  to  process  new  ideas  and  informaEon  

-­‐to  express  what  they  know.  

                     Rose  &  Meyer,  2002  

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Backwards Design •  What  important  ideas  and  enduring  understandings  do  you  want  the  students  to  know?  

•  What  thinking  strategies  will  students  need  to  demonstrate  these  understandings?    

                 McTighe  &  Wiggins,  2001  

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1. Learning Intentions “Students  can  reach  any  target  as  long        as  it  holds  sEll  for  them.”    -­‐  SEggins  -­‐  

2. Criteria

 Work  with  learners  to  develop  criteria  so  they  know  what  quality  looks  like.  

3. Questions  Increase  quality  quesEons  to        show  evidence  of  learning  

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4.  Descrip+ve  Feedback  Timely,  relevant    descripEve  feedback  contributes  most    powerfully  to  student  learning!  

5. Self & Peer Assessment Involve  learners  more  in  self  &  peer  assessment

6. Ownership Have  students  communicate    

their  learning  with  others

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Silent  reading  –  to  be  or  not  to  be…  

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Erica  Foote,    Princess  Margaret  Secondary  

•  If  students  were  given  the  opportunity  (4  Emes  per  semester)  to  show  what  they  know  in  different  ways,  would  it  not  only  increase  their  interest  and  effort  but  also  increase  their  understanding?    

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English  10  

•  4  wriEng  assignments,  4  choice  assignments  –  PowerPoint  presentaEons,  drawing,  poetry,  collages,  creaEng  their  own  test  with  answer  keys,  presenEng  their  informaEon  orally  or  using  drama  to  represent  their  thinking    

•  6  students    •  AFL  strategies  –  Ranked  exemplars  with  the  PS  – Analyzed  the  exemplars  to  co-­‐create  criteria  – Used  the  criteria  for  their  work  – Ownership  –  with  choice  

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2  wriEng  2  choice  assignments  –    demonstrate  your  knowledge  &  

understanding  of  various  literature  

Not  yet  %/#  

Approaching   Mee+ng   Exceeding  

WriEng  (essay/paragraph)  

16/2   41/5   25/3   16/2  

Choice   0/0   16/2   33/4   50/6  

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Erica’s  ReflecEons  

•  100%  of  students  reported  they  liked  the  choice  and  wanted  to  do  have  choices  again  in  another  semester  

•  91%  of  students  felt  they  did  beGer  with  choice  •  About  50%  sEll  chose  some  form  of  wriEng  when  given  a  choice,  but  liked  the  choice  

•  Fewer  complained  about  the  non-­‐choice  wriEng  assignments  

•  Fewer  assignments  were  handed  in  late  

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Grade 9 Science – Starleigh Grass & Mindy Casselman

Electricity

•  The  Challenge:  

•  Many  of  the  students  are  disengaged  and  dislike  ‘book  learning’.    They  acquire  more  knowledge,  concept  and  skill  when  they  are  acEve,  collaboraEve  and  reading  in  chunks.  

•  Starleigh  and  Mindy  in  It’s  All  about  Thinking  (Math  and  Science),  2011.  

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Essential Question •  If  we  understand  how  materials  hold  and  transfer  electric  charge,  can  we  store  and  move  electric  charge  using  common  materials?    

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•  Individually,  brainstorm  what  you  can  recall  about  the  characterisEcs  of  an  atom.  

•  Meet  in  groups  of  3  to  add  to  and  revise  your  list.  

•  Compare  this  list  to  the  master  list.  

•  …(word  derivaEons,  label  an  atom…)  

•  Exit  slip:    2  characterisEcs  you  want  to  remember  about  atoms.  

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The  Atom  

•  All  maGer  is  made  of  atoms.    •  Atoms  have  electrons,  neutrons,  and  protons.    Electrons  

move,  protons  and  neutrons  do  not  move.  •  Atoms  have  negaEve  and  posiEve  charges.    •  Electrons  have  a  negaEve  charge;  protons  have  a  posiEve  

charge.  •  Protons  and  neutrons  are  located  at  the  centre  of  the  atom,  

in  the  nucleus.  •  Electrons  orbit  around  the  outside  of  the  nucleus,  in  energy  

“shells.”  •  An  object  can  be  negaEvely  or  posiEvely  charged,  

depending  on  the  raEo  of  protons  and  neutrons.  

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Lit  12:    pracEce  without  penalty  Naryn  Searcy,  PenEcton  

•  Goal:    learn  how  to  represent  your  understanding  of  a  poem  in  a  different  ways  

•  Poet:    Robert  Burns      – Auld  Lang  Syne  (read  aloud)  – To  a  Mouse  (teams)  

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1.    Read  aloud  and  pracEce  stanza  with  partner  

2.    Connect  to  themes:  – Mankind  has  broken  its  union  with  nature  – Even  our  best  laid  plans  osen  do  not  work  out  

3.    Microcosm  &  universal  truths  

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Assignment  

1.  Mouse  Dance  –  all  8  stanzas  (2-­‐4  students)  

2.  Comic  (1-­‐2  students)  

3.  Reduced  poetry  (1-­‐2  students)  

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Criteria  

•  Demonstrate  understanding  of  the  meaning  of  all  8  stanzas  of  the  poem  

•  Recognize  and  demonstrate  the  2  themes  

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Feedback  

•  What  worked?  •  What’s  missing?  

•  What’s  next?  

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Robert  Burns  (1759-­‐1796)To  a  Mouse  On  Turning  Up  Her  Nest  with  the  

Plough,  November,  1785      

       Wee,  sleeket,  cowrin,  +m'rous  beas+e,                            Oh,  what  a  panic's  in  thy  breas+e!                            Thou  need  na  start  awa  sae  hasty                              

       Wi'  bickerin  braXle!                              

       I  wad  be  laith  to  rin  an'  chase  thee                                        Wi'  murd'ring  paXle!  

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A  Change  Journey  –  Jacob  Martens,    gr.  8  science,  11  physics  

•  Self-­‐regulaEon  •  Inquiry  and  criEcal  thinking  

•  engagement  

•  Jacob’s  blog:    hGp://martensvsb.wordpress.com  

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KinemaEcs  

•  The  future  locaEon  and  moEon  of  objects  can  be  predicted  based  on  their  past  locaEon  and  moEon.    

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B    D    A   Learning  Inten+ons  -­‐  Knowing  

I  can  define  and  relate  the  terms:    clock  reading,  posi+on  and  event.  

I  can  differenEate  between  a  clock  reading  and  a  +me  interval.  

I  can  define  and  relate  distance  and  average  speed.  

I  can  define  and  relate  displacement  and  average  velocity.  

I  can  differenEate  between  scalars  and  vectors.  

I  can  define  instantaneous  velocity  and  instantaneous  speed.  

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B    D    A   Learning  Inten+ons  -­‐  Doing  

I  can  solve  problems  involving:    displacement,  Eme  interval,  and  average  velocity.  

I  can  construct  posiEon-­‐Eme  graphs  based  on  data  from  various  sources.  

I  can  use  posiEon-­‐Eme  graphs  to  determine:            •displacement  &  average  velocity            •distance  travelled  &  average  speed            •instantaneous  velocity  

I  can  construct  velocity-­‐Eme  graphs  based  on  data  from  various  sources.  

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Questioning through Pictures

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Joni  Chui,  Aliisa  Sarte,  Port  Moody  Secondary  

•  I  used  this  acEvity  as  an  introducEon  to  earthquakes  in  geology  12.    

•  Students  have  all  seen  earthquakes  in  previous  classes  (some  more  than  others).  

•  We  completed  the  acEvity  and  I  made  sure  every  student  in  class  wondered  at  least  one  thing.        Let’s  try  it….  

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Earthquakes  

•  You  may  ask  quesEons  out  loud.  •  You  may  NOT  ANSWER  any  quesEons.    EVEN  IF  YOU  KNOW  THE  ANSWER!!!!  

•  All  quesEons  should  start  with  “I  wonder”…  

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Example  2  

Nerves  –  Biology  12  

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What  I  Found:  •  Every  student  could  contribute.    There  is  no  risk  in  asking  a  quesEon  that  no  one  is  supposed  to  answer.  

•  Students  remembered  a  lot  of  previous  informaEon.  

•  When  moving  on  to  the  lesson,  they  actually  cared  about  the  material!!!  

•  The  quesEons  that  they  asked  were  osen  very  good  and  related  to  the  content  that  I  was  subsequently  teaching.