3C: ENGAGING STUDENTS IN LEARNING Element Unsatisfactory Basic Proficient Distinguished ACTIVITIES AND Inappropriate for age or background Appropriate to some engage some Most are appropriate to students All students cognitively engaged. – – students not mentally engaged but not others almost all are cognitively engaged in Students initiate or adapt activities – ASSIGNMENTS exploring content and projects to enhance understanding. How can you ensure activities and Identify several different learning Based on the results of the lesson, What you do to share your assignments are appropriate for strategies that students choice what approaches might you use to success with your peers regarding students and encourage in their learning resulting in the ensure all students are highly how your students initiate or adapt engagement? engagement of all students. engaged throughout the lesson? activities and projects to enhance their understanding? GROUPING OF STUDENTS Instructional groups are Groups only partially appropriate to Groups are productive and fully Groups are productive and fully inappropriate to students or students or only moderately appropriate to students or to appropriate to students or to outcomes successful in advancing outcome of instructional purposes of lesson instructional purposes student take – lesson initiative to form or adjust groups How can students in this be What might you do to encourage How you share with your peers What might you do to ensure grouped to ensure more students to take the initiative to regarding your success with grouping is appropriate for all involvement in the content, based form or adjust grouping to enhance student-initiated grouping? students for a successful outcome on their level of learning? learning? of the lesson? INSTRUCTIONAL Unsuitable to purposes or don’t Only partially suitable to purposes, or Suitable to purposes and engage Suitable to purposes and engage engage students mentally only partially mentally engage students mentally students mentally. Students initiate MATERIALS AND students choice, adapt or create materials to RESOURCES enhance learning. Describe some possible How might you plan and align your How could you provide students a How can you and your planning modifications to your materials and materials and resources to choice in instructional materials or team incorporate a variety of resources that would promote cognitively engage your students in let students serve as a resource to approaches to encourage students higher levels of thinking and engage the lesson? one another? in taking the initiative to modify a all your students in the learning. task so that It is more meaningful to them? 3C: ENGAGING STUDENTS IN LEARNING (continued) Element Unsatisfactory Basic Proficient Distinguished
3C: ENGAGING STUDENTS IN LEARNING Element Unsatisfactory Basic Proficient Distinguished ACTIVITIES AND ASSIGNMENTS Inappropriate for age or background – students not mentally engaged How can you ensure activities and assignments are appropriate for students and encourage engagement? Appropriate to some – engage some but not others Identify several different learning strategies that students choice in their learning resulting in the engagement of all students. Most are appropriate to students – almost all are cognitively engaged in exploring content Based on the results of the lesson, what approaches might you use to ensure all students are highly engaged throughout the lesson? All students cognitively engaged. Students initiate or adapt activities and projects to enhance understanding. What you do to share your success with your peers regarding how your students initiate or adapt activities and projects to enhance their understanding? GROUPING OF STUDENTS Instructional groups are inappropriate to students or outcomes How can students in this be grouped to ensure more involvement in the content, based on their level of learning? Groups only partially appropriate to students or only moderately successful in advancing outcome of lesson What might you do to ensure grouping is appropriate for all students for a successful outcome of the lesson? Groups are productive and fully appropriate to students or to instructional purposes of lesson What might you do to encourage students to take the initiative to form or adjust grouping to enhance learning? Groups are productive and fully appropriate to students or to instructional purposes – student take initiative to form or adjust groups How you share with your peers regarding your success with student-initiated grouping? INSTRUCTIONAL MATERIALS AND RESOURCES Unsuitable to purposes or don’t engage students mentally How might you plan and align your materials and resources to cognitively engage your students in the lesson? Only partially suitable to purposes, or only partially mentally engage students Describe some possible modifications to your materials and resources that would promote higher levels of thinking and engage all your students in the learning. Suitable to purposes and engage students mentally How could you provide students a choice in instructional materials or let students serve as a resource to one another? Suitable to purposes and engage students mentally. Students initiate choice, adapt or create materials to enhance learning. How can you and your planning team incorporate a variety of approaches to encourage students in taking the initiative to modify a task so that It is more meaningful to them? 3C: ENGAGING STUDENTS IN LEARNING (continued) Element Unsatisfactory Basic Proficient Distinguished
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