Maximizing Engagement of All Learners

3 Renewal Units | 45 Hours

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Products Maximizing Engagement of All Learners K-12 teachers professional development course

Course Description

Teaching within the CCSS framework requires teachers to create equity of outcomes as well as equity of access to learning. For teachers to move deeper into teaching within the CCSS it is important that they develop a solid understanding of the principles of the CCSS.

This course has been designed with the goal of providing a framework which operationally defines engagement and promotes the value of maximizing engagement for all learners, providing research-based principles in which teachers can anchor their practices and, providing the characteristics of engagement-minded practices which both teachers and students will find motivating to implement.

Objectives:

Teachers will be able to:

  • Summarize the current need for personalization within a standards-based system
  • Define the difference between the achievement gap and the engagement gap
  • Articulate why what teachers do (teaching) and what students do (learning) are not equivalent
  • Understand the need for developing a gauge for engagement
  • Recognize why maximizing engagement for all learners requires extensive interactions with learners
  • Apply a number of potential pitfalls related to engagement (gaps, traps, wraps, and naps)
  • Demonstrate understanding of the need to formulate an engagement hypothesis
  • Review current research on the role of emotions in learning
  • Develop awareness of elements of a brain-friendly learning environment
  • Distinguish between good stress and bad stress levels that impact learning
  • Comprehend the role of fear for learners and strategies to help mitigate fear
  • Understand the elements of and a rationale for a student engagement self-reflection tool
  • Articulate the enduring questions for both teachers and learners and the pivotal nature of students enduring questions
  • Identify the features of a cycle of inquiry and the importance of using one to increase student engagement
  • Conceptualize success in teaching as interdependent with success of learners
  • Recognize the importance of connecting with students to develop strong teacher-student relationships
  • List characteristics of learning environments that alter the odds against or in favor of learning
  • Demonstrate understanding that a teacher's role is multi-faceted as an advocate, buffer and catalyst within the learning environment
  • Delineate the characteristics of a fixed ability mindset and an expandable ability mindset
  • Recognize how a growth-minded approach is integral to maximizing engagement for all learners regardless of academic achievement levels
  • Implement a teacher reflection strategy to determine whether student orientation is toward a fixed or expandable view of ability
  • Prepare a lesson or unit of instruction on the growth mindset for an entire class
  • Link the key teacher behavior of providing prescriptive feedback with the need for learners to receive informative communication during their learning process
  • Learn steps to providing effective prescriptive feedback
  • Recognize the research base that suggests particular kinds of praise can actually decrease engagement
  • Understand the benefits of providing prescriptive feedback
  • Understand the significance of encouraging student ownership of data about their own performance
  • Learn several methods for providing students opportunities to reflect on their own performance data over time
  • Describe the statements that may be typical of myths associated with engagement
  • Reflect on any overlap between current practice and engagement myths
  • Understand the role of behavior as a language for learners trying to satisfy unmet needs through their behavior
  • Recognize the covert and overt aspects of behavior and the challenges each can present for teachers maximizing engagement
  • Reflect on course content and applications to current teaching context
  • Create an engagement map to guide future learning interests

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How to Obtain Montana License Renewal Units:

CE Credits Online is a Montana State approved provider for Renewal Units

The State of Montana requires you to complete the Registration and Verification Form for each CE Credits Online course you complete.

If you wish to receive renewal units for your completed course(s) please follow the steps below:

  1. Contact the CE Credits Online office at support@cecreditsonline.org for your Registration and Verification Form, once your course is completed. Provide your name, the course you completed and that you are requesting a Montana Registration and Verification Form.
  2. CE Credits Online will email you the form with the CE Credits Online portion of the form completed.
  3. Complete your part of the sections on the Registration and Verification Form. The form requires you to include the Instructor of Record, which is found on your Certificate of Completion.
  4. Remember all events you use to obtain License Renewal Units must be completed within your current five-year license renewal cycle.
  5. Be sure that the information provided in Sections I, II, III is accurate and complete. If any information is missing, the form may not be acceptable for license renewal.
  6. The original copy of this certificate is required to be included with the application for educator license.

You will no longer be required to send in official transcripts and renewal unit certificates at the time of renewal application! Renewal applications will now be randomly audited to verify accuracy. Therefore, even though you no longer need to submit your documents at the time your complete your renewal application, you will need to have them for your records. If your application is chosen for audit you will have 60 days to submit your documents for verification. Your license will NOT be issued if you are unable to provide the documents needed to verify your professional development activities.

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