Engagement

This week you’ll explore how Engagement is more than student interest and participation. It encompasses all the ways you help students develop intrinsic motivation, increase self-management and build metacognition.

This Week’s Essential Question:

How can I use mobile devices and apps to motivate my students and enhance their ability to persist and become self-directed in their learning?

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Scene: Teacher talking to his students.
Teacher: I expect you all to be independent, innovative, critical thinkers who will do exactly as I say!

Provide Multiple Means of Engagement to help build Purposeful, motivated learners

Provide options for self-regulation

Promote expectations and beliefs that optimize motivation
Facilitate personal coping skills and strategies
Develop self-assessment and re ection

Provide options for sustaining effort and persistence

Heighten salience of goals and objectives
Vary demands and resources to optimize challenge
Foster collaboration and community
Increase mastery-oriented feedback

Provide options for recruiting interest

Optimize individual choice and autonomy
Optimize relevance, value, and authenticity
Minimize threats and distractions

CAST 2014