Recently we have been working through a sequence on engagement in our learning teams. It is a very interesting conversation as there are many interpretations of what engagement looks like in the classroom. In learning teams we did research using "What Did You Do in School Today" to give us common language of three types of engagement - social, academic, and intellectual engagement. We then did instructional rounds thinking about engagement in our own classrooms and what we could do to improve our own practice in an area of engagement. Finally we came back together and reflected on our practice and examples of each type of engagement we see in our school each day. Conclusions seemed to be that all three types of engagement were needed for students to be deeply and truly engaged in their work. If one of the pieces was missing, full engagement would be difficult. To add to this, if students had intellectual engagement, both social and academic engagement pieces were intact.
Click on the link to see a summary webpage of our learning teams on engagement:
www.wix.com/kwedman/Engagement
Hey great post! The sequence was a great idea!
ReplyDelete(You could add a link to that great wix that you made..I bet :)
The link is right above the picture...I couldn't get the link to work directly on the picture...any ideas??
ReplyDeleteOh, good point. I forgot. I have the same problem :(
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