Student Engagement and Learning

Are you looking for ways to enhance your practice of teaching? Do you need to find new and exciting ways to engage your students? Our Student Engagement and Learning course explores the potential of formative assessment and techniques for improving student learning. We summarize key research on classroom formative assessment and show how these practices have a greater impact on educational achievement than most other reforms. Finally, practical techniques are discussed to help educators incorporate strategies into classroom practice.

After completing this course, you should be able to:

• Recall the impact of teacher quality and the importance of professional development when it comes to formative assessment
• Recognize learning intentions and criteria and how to elicit evidence of learning
• Identify techniques for cooperative learning and ways to move learning forward
• Define applications for student self-assessment and self-testing

Module 1 - Educational Achievement and Formative Assessment

Module 2 - Learning Intentions and Criteria

Module 3 - Providing Feedback and Activating Learners

Module 4 - Activating Learners as Owners of Their Own Learning

Student Engagement and Learning Module 1

Educational Achievement and Formative Assessment

Educational achievement is more important than ever – both for individuals and society. Module one addresses the importance and also the difficulties with raising student achievement levels. The main way to do that is to improve the quality of teachers in our classrooms. We’ll discuss techniques behind professional development and formative assessments.

• Importance of Educational Achievement
• Impact of Teacher Quality
• Importance of Professional Development
• Origins of Formative Assessment
• Assessment: The Bridge Between Teaching and Learning

Student Engagement and Learning Module 2

Learning Intentions and Criteria

Module two addresses how teachers can clarify and share learning intentions and success criteria to their students. Once that piece is in place, you can accurately assess where a student is in their learning. We can discover where their ideas come from and how to engage them through practical techniques, evaluative and interpretive listening, and discussions.

• When to Use Learning Intentions
• The Case for and Against Rubrics
• Evidence of Learning
• Discovering Where Students’ Ideas Come From
• Practical Techniques

Student Engagement and Learning Module 3

Providing Feedback and Activating Learners

Providing effective feedback to students is harder than it sounds. This module will examine the effectiveness of different types of feedback and how learners react to feedback. We will also discuss cooperative and collaborative learning and practical techniques for incorporating that into your classroom.

• Quality of Feedback
• Feedback as a Recipe for Future Action
• Effective Cooperative Learning
• Instructional Resources
• Ways to Move Learning Forward

Student Engagement and Learning Module 4

Activating Learners as Owners of Their Own Learning

The final module reviews the impact of getting students more involved in their learning. We’ll discuss practical techniques for student self-assessments, self-testing, self-regulated learning, metacognition, and motivation.

• Student Self-Assessment
• Self-Testing
• Self-Regulated Learning
• Metacognition
• Integration of Motivational and Metacognitive Perspectives

No prerequisites required.

All materials included in course.

Internet Connection

• Broadband or High-Speed - DSL, Cable, and Wireless Connections

*Dial-Up internet connections will result in a diminished online experience. Classroom pages may load slowly and viewing large audio and video files may not be possible.

Hardware Requirements

• Processor - 2GHz Processor or Higher
• Memory - 1 GB RAM Minimum Recommended

PC Software Requirements

• Operating Systems - Windows 10 or higher
• Microsoft Office 2019 or higher. Also, you could use a general Word Processing application to save and open Microsoft Office formats (.doc, .docx, .xls, .xlsx, .ppt, .pptx)
• Internet Browsers - Google Chrome is highly recommended
• Cookies MUST be enabled
• Pop-ups MUST be allowed (Pop-up Blocker disabled)
• The Kindle Reader App or VitalSource Bookshelf App are needed for many of our courses (No special equipment needed. This can be downloaded for FREE onto your computer.)
• PowerPoint Viewer (if you do not have PowerPoint)
• Adobe PDF Reader
• QuickTime, Windows Media Player &/or Real Player

MAC Software Requirements

• Operating Systems - Mac OS version 11 or higher
• Mac office programs or a Word Processing application to save and open Microsoft Office formats (.doc, .docx, .xls, .xlsx, .ppt, .pptx)
• Internet Browsers - Google Chrome is highly recommended
• Cookies MUST be enabled
• Pop-ups MUST be allowed (Pop-up Blocker disabled)
• The Amazon Kindle Reader App or VitalSource Bookshelf App are needed for many of our courses (No special equipment needed. This can be downloaded for FREE onto your computer.)
• PowerPoint Viewer (if you do not have PowerPoint)
• Adobe PDF Reader
• Apple QuickTime Media Player