High Impact Engagement Strategies

Tuesdays – November 18, December 2, 16  4:00-5:30 PM

Session 1: Let’s Really Engage Our Students: Dynamic Strategies That Work

What is engagement? What does it look and sound like? How do you truly engage your students? During this session, we focus on what student engagement is and is not and why engaging all students during a lesson will increase student retention and achievement. Participants will learn to effectively design lessons to engage all students in learning that lasts using protocols that promote deeper learning as well as other engagement strategies that can be easily implemented into your daily practice.

Session 2: I Know I Taught It But: Checking for Understanding

You may have taught it but did the students learn it? How do you know if all the students got it? Do they know they got it? In this session, participants learn not only what it means to think like an assessor but how to apply student engaged assessment strategies into daily instruction to position students as leaders of their own learning. After the session is over, both participants and their students will be able to apply checking for understanding strategies throughout a lesson to gather evidence of student learning against the learning target to see if what was taught was what they learned.

Session 3: Differentiation Does Not Mean Watered-Down: Differentiated Instruction Done Right

“How do I truly differentiate my instruction to meet the needs of all my students without watering down the rigor?” During this session, participants will learn the principles of differentiated instruction and distinguish between differentiation and scaffolding. Additionally, the session will focus on a variety of effective content scaffolds that maintain the rigor of the grade-level standards as well as a variety of effective differentiated strategies that provides support for all learners throughout the 'process' portion of a lesson.

Cost:

$199/person; $175/person for teams of 3 or more.

Contact nysascd.director@gmail.com with questions or to pay by Purchase Order.

All attendees will receive a year membership to NYS ASCD.