Learner Engagement

1. KAGAN

1.1. Are there instructional strategies designed to promote cooperation and communication, boost confidence, and retain student interest?

1.2. ___________________________

1.3. ____________________________________________________________

1.4. Ex: Stand up hand up pair up, quiz quiz trade?

2. PIES

2.1. Is there individual accountability?

2.2. ____________________________

2.2.1. __________________________

2.3. Is there positive interdependence?

2.4. ___________________________

2.5. Is there simultaneous interaction?

2.6. _________________________

2.7. Equal participation?

3. Learning Retention

3.1. How much of each category are the students doing?

3.2. Listening to lecture? (5% retention)

3.3. Reading? (10% retention)

3.4. Audio Visual? (20%)

3.5. Demonstration? (30%)

3.6. Practice by Doing? (75%)

3.7. Teaching others? (90%)

4. Agency

4.1. How much control and self-direction do the students have?

4.2. _________________________

4.3. Do they have choices?

4.4. _______________________

4.5. Can they be creative?

4.6. ______________________

4.7. Is there a chance for them to lead?

4.8. ______________________-

4.9. Is there a chance for the students to teach?

4.10. ______________________-

4.11. How can they facilitating learning?

4.12. ______________________

5. Student directed VS Teacher Directed

5.1. Are the students engaging in mutual dialog?

5.2. _________________________

5.3. Are the students questioning what is being taught?

5.4. ______________________--

5.5. Are they forming and challenging opinions?

5.6. ____________________________-

5.7. Is the teacher asking open ended questions?

5.8. __________________________-

5.9. Did they read against the grain?

5.10. __________________________

5.11. Is there project based learning?

5.12. _______________________

5.13. Are they connecting what's being taught to their lives?

5.14. ______________________________

5.15. Is there interdisciplinary work?

5.16. _____________________________-

6. How are the PIES of Kagan Structures addressed?

7. What does the lesson have students doing (learning retention chart)?

8. ______________________________-

9. How are students demonstrating agency?

10. ____________________________

11. How much is teacher-directed versus how much is student-directed

12. __________________________-

13. Are their needs being met?

14. Social and Emotional Needs

14.1. Are the students interested in the topic?

14.2. ___________________________

14.3. How do the students feel about the work?

14.4. ___________________________-

14.5. Is this important to the students?

14.6. ___________________________

14.7. Can the student do what is being asked?

14.8. ____________________________-

14.9. How are the students feeling?

14.10. ___________________________

14.11. What's happening in their lives?

14.12. _____________________________

14.13. ____________________________

14.14. Has the teacher showed the students that they care?

14.15. _____________________________

15. Metacognition

15.1. Are the students think about their thinking?

15.2. ___________________

15.3. Is the teacher using stems?

15.4. _____________________

15.5. Ex: I'm thinking... I'm noticing...

15.6. Did they discuss why they think the way they do?

15.7. _________________________

15.8. Social Dimension

15.8.1. Are students feelings safe enough to discuss ideas?

15.8.2. _____________________

15.8.3. Are they sharing reading processes?

15.8.4. _____________________

15.9. Personal Dimension

15.9.1. Are they developing reader confidence?

15.9.2. _________________________

15.9.3. Are they developing reader fluency?

15.9.4. _________________________

15.10. Knowledge-Building Dimension

15.10.1. Are they building knowledge of the text?

15.10.2. ___________________________

15.10.3. Are they building knowledge of language?

15.10.4. ______________________________

15.11. Cognitive Dimension

15.11.1. Are they breaking it down?

15.11.2. _________________________

15.11.3. Are they monitoring comprehension?

15.11.4. _____________________--

16. Students Sharing and Synthesizing learning

16.1. Are they participating in discussions?

16.2. ______________________

16.3. Are they talking in groups?

16.4. ____________________

16.5. Was there a class discussion?

16.6. ____________________-

16.7. Was there an assignment? (project, essay, group work)

16.8. _______________________

16.9. Did the teacher use stems?

16.10. ________________________

17. How are the students social and emotional needs addressed and met (implicitly and explicitly)?

18. ______________________________

19. How are students directed to reflect on their own thinking about the material (metacognition)?

20. _____________________________

21. How are students allowed to share and synthesize their learning?

22. ______________________________