Motivation and Engagement
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Engaging Children: Igniting a Drive for Deeper Learning, K-8, Ellin Oliver Keene
Heinneman Promo
Check out the video -- (layer on the emotional layer to go from compliance to engagement)
In Engaging Children, Ellin Oliver Keene explores the question: What can we do to help students develop internal motivation or, better yet, engagement? Differentiating between compliance, participation, motivation, and engagement, she shows how to develop and recognize true student engagement in your classroom and help students take more responsibility for their learning.
Explore the conditions where student-driven engagement flourishes.
Cultivate an environment for increasing student engagement.
Explore four pillars of engagement that provide a framework for considering what it means to be engaged:
Lucas Education Foundation (LEF) Mini-Symposium on Engagement - Nov 2021 Coming Soon
Student Motivation and Engagement in Literacy Learning
U.S. Department of Education (AdLit.org)
Teachers can help students build confidence in their ability to comprehend content-area texts, by providing a supportive environment and offering information on how reading strategies can be modified to fit various tasks. Teachers should also make literacy experiences more relevant to students' interests, everyday life, or important current events.
Increasing Motivation and Engagement
Potential Roadblocks and Solutions
How to Stop Killing the Love of Reading
Jennifer's 12/3/17 Interview with Pernille Ripp
Jennifer Gonzalez - Cult of Pedagogy Blog
Passionate Readers Group
eResources for Passionate Readers downloadable files
Taking Action on Adolescent Literacy
by Judith L. Irvin, Julie Meltzer and Melinda S. Dukes
Chapter 1. Student Motivation, Engagement, and Achievement
Heinneman Promo
Check out the video -- (layer on the emotional layer to go from compliance to engagement)
In Engaging Children, Ellin Oliver Keene explores the question: What can we do to help students develop internal motivation or, better yet, engagement? Differentiating between compliance, participation, motivation, and engagement, she shows how to develop and recognize true student engagement in your classroom and help students take more responsibility for their learning.
Explore the conditions where student-driven engagement flourishes.
Cultivate an environment for increasing student engagement.
Explore four pillars of engagement that provide a framework for considering what it means to be engaged:
- Intellectual urgency: The compelling drive we experience when we choose to invest time and effort in learning; using questions to propel our learning forward.
- Emotional resonance: The ability to describe when a concept is imprinted on our mind and our heart; experiencing a strong emotional connection to what we learn or read.
- Perspective bending: An awareness of how others’ knowledge, emotions, and beliefs shape our own; adjusting our thinking when challenged and relishing the opportunity to impact others with our ideas.
- The aesthetic world: A recognition of moments when we find something uniquely beautiful, captivating, hilarious, or meaningful; discussing a book, an illustration, a painting, or an idea that seems to have been created just for us.
Lucas Education Foundation (LEF) Mini-Symposium on Engagement - Nov 2021 Coming Soon
Student Motivation and Engagement in Literacy Learning
U.S. Department of Education (AdLit.org)
Teachers can help students build confidence in their ability to comprehend content-area texts, by providing a supportive environment and offering information on how reading strategies can be modified to fit various tasks. Teachers should also make literacy experiences more relevant to students' interests, everyday life, or important current events.
Increasing Motivation and Engagement
- Establish meaningful and engaging content learning goals around the essential ideas of a discipline as well as the specific learning processes students use to access those ideas.
- Provide a positive learning environment that promotes students' autonomy in learning.
- Make literacy experiences more relevant to students' interests, everyday life, or important current events.
- Build in certain instructional conditions, such as student goal setting, self-directed learning, and collaborative learning, to increase reading engagement and conceptual learning for students.
Potential Roadblocks and Solutions
- Some teachers think that motivational activities must entertain students and therefore create fun activities that are not necessarily focused on learning.
- Some students may think that textbooks are boring and beyond their ability to understand.
- Many content-area teachers do not realize the importance of teaching the reading strategies and thinking processes that skilled readers use in different academic disciplines and do not recognize the beneficial effects of such instruction on students' ability to engage with their learning.
- Adolescent students who struggle in reading do not expect to do well in class.
- Kamil, M. L., Borman, G. D., Dole, J., Kral, C. C., Salinger, T., and Torgesen, J. (2008). Improving adolescent literacy: Effective classroom and intervention practices: A Practice Guide (NCEE #2008-4027). Washington, DC: National Center for Education Evaluation and Regional Assistance, Institute of Education Sciences, U.S. Department of Education. Retrieved from http://ies.ed.gov/ncee/wwc.
How to Stop Killing the Love of Reading
Jennifer's 12/3/17 Interview with Pernille Ripp
Jennifer Gonzalez - Cult of Pedagogy Blog
Passionate Readers Group
eResources for Passionate Readers downloadable files
Taking Action on Adolescent Literacy
by Judith L. Irvin, Julie Meltzer and Melinda S. Dukes
Chapter 1. Student Motivation, Engagement, and Achievement