Course Objectives

• Evaluate levels of disengagement and connect it to the costs to students and society.
• Interpret a disengaged student’s profile and a teacher’s perspective.
• Examine ripple questioning and explain how it benefits students.
• Compare the four quadrants in the TPT cognitive engagement model.
• Examine the effect of on-the-spot TPTs and hold-ups on student engagement.
• Embed on-the-spot TPTs into lessons.
• Embed a hold-up activity into a lesson.
• Analyze recent lessons for the amount of movement TPTs incorporated.
• Embed movement and guided note taking into a lesson.
• Analyze the results of embedding movement and guided note-taking activities into a lesson.
• Create TPT tool boxes that allow interactive lessons to run more smoothly.
• Analyze personal belief systems about students as it relates to the “I Trust” statements.
• Analyze the level of student participation and voice in the classroom as it relates to the building of a classroom community.
• Conduct a quadrant analysis using an online demonstration teaching video.
• Reflect on the benefits of collaboration as a means of improving teaching effectiveness.
• Conduct a quadrant analysis for a lesson the learner records, observes, or reviews.

Syllabus

(ASCD PD Online course, 2015) Reimagined self-paced asynchronous online course. Upon completion, learners will be awarded an ASCD Certificate worth up to 20 Clock Hours.