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Expectations for Designing for Engagement

 

Students

Teachers

Administrators

District Administrators

Incorporate student autonomy in the learning environment 

Students make choices and take ownership in their own and other’s learning demonstrating flexibility and creativity. 

Design classrooms that amplify and respond to student voice, allowing for flexibility and creativity.  

Incorporate teacher-led or personalized professional development activities, allowing for flexibility and creativity. 

Incorporate principal led or personalized meeting activities, allowing for flexibility and creativity.  

Incorporate collaborative structures

All students participate.

Use collaborative structures to ensure all students are actively engaged in the content.

Use and model collaborative structures to ensure all staff are actively engaged in the content.

Use and model  collaborative structures to ensure all staff are actively engaged in the content.

Instruction of Organized Learning

Students develop and apply tools for organizing their thoughts and questions for future use. 

Provide learning targets, explicit instruction and scaffolding for the evolution of learning.


Examples: notes, graphic organizers, mind maps, backwards planning, planner. 

Provide learning targets, explicit instruction and scaffolding for the evolution of learning.


Examples: notes, graphic organizers, mind maps, backwards planning, planner.

Provide learning targets, explicit instruction and scaffolding for the evolution of learning.


Examples: notes, graphic organizers, mind maps, backwards planning, planner.

Inquiry

Pose/create, identify, and react to different types of questions.  

Design tasks for students to gather, process, and apply learning.


Pose, identify, and react to different types of questions.

Design tasks for teachers to gather, process, and apply learning.


Pose, identify, and react to different types of questions.

Design tasks for administrators to gather, process, and apply learning.


Pose, identify, and react to different types of questions.

Inclusion

Respect and add to a level of trust and safety between members of the class.

Establish a level of trust and safety between members of the class.

Establish a level of trust and safety between members of the team.

Establish a level of trust and safety between members of the team.