Increasing Student Engagement with High Yield Strategies
Engagement Occurs by Connecting Specific High-Yield Strategies
Option for This Event
- October 18, 2024 at the Learning-Focused Training Center in Asheville, NC
Essential Questions
Student Engagement is Multidimensional
Unlock the Secrets to Unparalleled Student Engagement
Are you ready to transform your classroom into an environment where every student is actively engaged and eager to learn? Join us for an exclusive event exploring the latest strategies and research-driven practices to boost student engagement like never before.
Why Attend?
In today’s educational landscape, student engagement is more critical than ever. Recent studies, such as the American Educational Research Journal report, highlight that students actively engaged in learning are more likely to achieve higher academic outcomes and develop essential critical thinking skills. Moreover, the 2022 research published in Educational Psychology Review reveals that engagement is directly linked to students’ long-term knowledge retention and overall motivation to learn.
While student engagement is multidimensional, understanding each dimension (Behavioral, Emotional, Cognitive) and its relationship to learning underpins effective teaching. Engagement is not about focusing on a single dimension but is like a wheel—when students get on, they move through all three dimensions. Life would be simple if every student came with a switch to increase their engagement. Sadly, that doesn't exist, so we will share how exemplary schools connect specific high-yield strategies to influence student engagement.
Your Facilitator
Lindsey Hampton
During her 20+years as an educator, Lindsey served various grade levels and subject areas. For 8 years she led inclusive classrooms and taught advanced placement courses. Following her classroom years, Lindsey spent 10 years as an instructional coach, professional development specialist, and district administrator of new teacher induction. She has presented at numerous conferences, including the Florida Association of School Administrator Conference, the Tennessee Principals Association Conference, and the Kentucky Association of School Administrators. Today, she works directly with teachers and school leaders in the implementation of the Learning-Focused Instructional Framework.
Learning Goals
Increasing Student Engagement helps educators consider the interrelated elements of engagement when designing and implementing learning activities, increasing student engagement behaviorally, emotionally, and cognitively, which can positively affect student learning and achievement.
You Will Be Able To...
- Select engagement strategies according to instructional purpose
- Plan lessons incorporating the use of Collaborative Pairs, Distributed Summarizing, and Writing
- Provide scaffolding to support students in engaging in learning
- Enhance student learning through the application of specific cognitive engagement strategies
- Incorporate multiple opportunities during the lesson for students to respond to questions and prompts for Distributed Summarizing and Distributed
- Practice before independent work
- Carefully monitor students’ thinking/conversations/writing and use their responses to inform instruction.
You Will Know...
- rational for lesson chunking
- importance of planning for purposeful engagement strategies
- The continuum of engagement strategies and effectiveness
- management strategies for using Collaborative Pairs effectively
- Characteristics of Writing to Learn
- Writing to Learn Strategies as Distributed Summarizing opportunities throughout Lesson Instruction.
What You Receive
In addition to the resources below, you have the opportunity to learn,
ask questions, and gather tips from your colleagues and the institute facilitator.:
When and Where
At Learning-Focused Training Center
Location
- 200 District Dr. Ste 001, Asheville, NC 28803
Date
- October 18, 2024
Time
- 8:30 AM - 3:30 PM
