Chapter 7

Hope everyone had a good 4th!! Remember for those that can make it we are meeting July 17 at Trailhead at 4:00 to discuss chapters 8 and 9 and catch up! This will be the last blog post. 

Chapter 7: Engage for Energy and Focus

What are some strategies you might try to increase your class's "electricity", and how will you implement them?

Chapter 6

I truly love reading everyone's comments. I keep looking for the like button after I'm done. :)   Hope everyone's enjoying their summer!!

Chapter 6: Engage for Deep Understanding

The toughest part of building deep understanding is often ensuring that all students are able to transfer the content to their own lives. How do you currently develop learning transfer in your students? What might you try to improve your results? 

Chapter 4 and 5

I'm posting a day early... I'm going to the lake so I didn't want to forget!! Hope everyone's summer is going great!! This week covered 2 chapters so I will post a question for each chapter to comment on. 

Chapter 4: Engage to Build Cognitive Capacity

1. Which higher-order thinking skills do you think are most important for you to build in your class: attention, problem solving, critical thinking, working memory, processing speed, or self-control? How will you go about building these skills in students? 

Chapter 5: Engage for Motivation and Effort 

2. What have you learned about the mind-set of students who simply engage less? What strategies can you use to build the learner's mindset in all your students?

Chapter 3

I love reading everyone's comments. It gets me excited for next school year knowing that engaging our students will be everyone's number one priority. For this post I will post a couple questions, just pick the one you want to answer and label it so we know which question you answered.  Hope everyone is having a great summer! It's going fast!!! 

Chapter 3 Engage for Positive Climate 

#1- What strategies might you use to influence your students' states? 

#2- How do you plan to turn your group of students into a family? 

#3- What can you do to ensure the 3 to 1 positives to negatives ratio needed to optimize growth? 

Chapter 1 and 2

 Hope everyone is having a good start to summer break.  I'm posting questions for each chapter.  In your comment label your responses with a 1) and 2) to represent the chapters.  Feel free to respond to other's comments.  


Chapter 1- The Seven Engagement Factors
Which of the 7 factors are you most looking forward to overcoming?  What are some ways you might address it?

Chapter 2- The Rules for Engagement
What are some ways you could build stronger relationships with your students?