What will my class look like?
I am grateful for this oppotunity to share. I have adapted a new mantra this year: Sharing is learning and teaching. Sharing is hard but it allows you to see yourself and be insightful.I have spent the last year taking online courses (Google Earth, Digital Cameras, Pod/Vodcasting, Discovery Education resources, Word Walls, Wiki usage, Intel, etc.), joining social networks (to build up my PLN - my professional learning network), blogging and reading, teaching and sharing, and so on and so on and so on.... I am committed to my class. I hope that they are committed as well. Time will tell.What will my class look like this year?
Dr. Schlechty defines 5 levels of engagement that illustrate the attention paid in class. The more interesting and compelling the work, the more likely the student is to be and stay engaged in the work.
The five levels of engagement are as follows:
Engaged – High attention and high commitment
Strategic Compliance – High attention but low commitment
Ritual Compliance – Low attention and low commitment
Retreatist – No attention and no commitment
Rebellion – Diverted attentionWill I be lucky and have a class of students who are engaged?
• They “get it” and are able and willing to use it. Getting good grades is great but I want and need to be able to use this knowledge again.
• They don’t just post their poetry analysis to their wikipages. They post to their pages and then write blog posts about the process and then they solicit comments from friends and classmates. They enjoy helping you solve any wiki problems that you may have.
Will I have students who are strategically compliant?
• They can cram and get good grades on tests (getting good grades = getting into a good college) but have no idea what is going on with the same information a week later.
• They can complete a poetry wikipage and analyze 5 poems but the following week be unable to define metaphor.
How many of my students will be ritually compliant?
• They will attempt to complete most of the assignments because they will get in trouble if they fail. They don’t take notes and may take catnaps in class.
• Don’t ask them how to post onto their wikipage because they were not really paying attention when I gave the directions so they do not know what to do.
How many of them will be retreatists?
• They take frequent catnaps, doodle in notebook and will partially complete 4 out of 10 assignments.
• If you ask them about a wikipage the response will be “a wicked what?”
How many of them will be rebellious?
• They have no idea what day or period it is, let alone what assignment is being discussed.
• Computer is on and they are feverishly playing Mortal Combat. They seem to take pleasure in disrupting the class and keep others from learning.It is my realistic goal (hopefully) to have #/100 of my students in the following levels:
25/100 - Engaged
35/100 – Strategically Compliant
20/100 – Ritually Compliant
15/100 - Retreatism
5/100 – RebellionI would love to have 100/100 students who were engaged 100% of the time but that is not a realistic goal. If I can make the claim that between 70-80% of my students are committed to completing assignments for whatever reason, I am great. How about you?Here’s to a great new year.
Dr. Schlechty defines 5 levels of engagement that illustrate the attention paid in class. The more interesting and compelling the work, the more likely the student is to be and stay engaged in the work.
The five levels of engagement are as follows:
Engaged – High attention and high commitment
Strategic Compliance – High attention but low commitment
Ritual Compliance – Low attention and low commitment
Retreatist – No attention and no commitment
Rebellion – Diverted attentionWill I be lucky and have a class of students who are engaged?
• They “get it” and are able and willing to use it. Getting good grades is great but I want and need to be able to use this knowledge again.
• They don’t just post their poetry analysis to their wikipages. They post to their pages and then write blog posts about the process and then they solicit comments from friends and classmates. They enjoy helping you solve any wiki problems that you may have.
Will I have students who are strategically compliant?
• They can cram and get good grades on tests (getting good grades = getting into a good college) but have no idea what is going on with the same information a week later.
• They can complete a poetry wikipage and analyze 5 poems but the following week be unable to define metaphor.
How many of my students will be ritually compliant?
• They will attempt to complete most of the assignments because they will get in trouble if they fail. They don’t take notes and may take catnaps in class.
• Don’t ask them how to post onto their wikipage because they were not really paying attention when I gave the directions so they do not know what to do.
How many of them will be retreatists?
• They take frequent catnaps, doodle in notebook and will partially complete 4 out of 10 assignments.
• If you ask them about a wikipage the response will be “a wicked what?”
How many of them will be rebellious?
• They have no idea what day or period it is, let alone what assignment is being discussed.
• Computer is on and they are feverishly playing Mortal Combat. They seem to take pleasure in disrupting the class and keep others from learning.It is my realistic goal (hopefully) to have #/100 of my students in the following levels:
25/100 - Engaged
35/100 – Strategically Compliant
20/100 – Ritually Compliant
15/100 - Retreatism
5/100 – RebellionI would love to have 100/100 students who were engaged 100% of the time but that is not a realistic goal. If I can make the claim that between 70-80% of my students are committed to completing assignments for whatever reason, I am great. How about you?Here’s to a great new year.
