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Motivating and Engaging Students Presented by Dr. Robert Marzano and Dr. Debra Pickering
+Dr. Robert Marzano, CEO Marzano Research Laboratory
Introduction
Course objectives:
To learn a model of attention and engagement To learn specific strategies to help students
answer in the affirmative to: how do I feel? Am I interested? Is this important? And can I do it?
To learn how to use these strategies to enhance student achievement
To enhance students’ 21st century skills
To enhance teachers’ self-knowledge
Debra Pickering, Senior Scholar Marzano Research Laboratory
+Model of Attention and Engagement
Attention
Emotions: How do I feel?
Interest: Am I interested?
Engagement
Importance: Is this important?
Efficacy: Can I do this?
+Research Review
Relevant to: How do I feel? Am I interested? Is this important? Can I do this?
+Engagement
One of the most fundamental and vexing challenges of school reform
Engagement vs. compliance
Permanent Memory
Working Memory
Sensory Memory
Human Beings
Permanent Memory
Working Memory
Sensory Memory
Human beings
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The ba9le for Working Memory
World
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The ba9le for Working Memory
+Model of Attention and Engagement
Jen Murdoch, Buffalo Elementary: Engagement
+Teacher’s Responsibilities in Relation to Student Engagement
To make students feel safe
To find students’ interests
To plan ahead
To foreground your own enthusiasm
To individualize instruction
To make students feel capable
To provide individual attention
+Teachers’ Responsibilities, Cont’d
Create a cooperative culture in the classroom and school
Work with students to address issues of engagement
Facilitate students’ sense of responsibility for their own learning
