ow does self-direction of learning play a role in student success? What differences do you anticipate will be in a classroom where students take ownership of their learning versus a classroom where a teacher is fully in charge of the learning?
DQ1 How does self-direction of learning play a role in student success? What differences do you anticipate will be in a classroom where students take ownership of their learning versus a classroom where a teacher is fully in charge of the learning? What would a balance of this look like?
DQ2 What relationship, if any, do you think exists between student independence and self-esteem? Think of a personal experience during your education in which your self-esteem was boosted based on an individual learning incident. This could be as simple as receiving the first A on a paper that was displayed on the classroom wall. What can you do in the classroom to support student independence and improve self-esteem? Provide at least two examples.
ELM535 Strategies for Student Engagement
Week 2 Discussion
DQ1 The ability to communicate the learning objective is crucial to a students’ learning process. What happens when a student does not understand what he or she is learning? What are the affects? How can you make sure your future students understand their learning? Discuss the implications of students not understanding the learning objectives or what is to be learned from the teacher. How can educators use this information to adjust instruction and how they communicate learning objectives?
DQ2 Describe the difference between writing the objective on the board and explaining to students what the objective is. How does explaining the learning objective change the ownership that students have in their own learning? Share an example from your field experience and grade level of how the teacher communicates the learning objective.
ELM535 Strategies for Student Engagement
Week 3 Discussion
DQ1 A student not meeting a goal is a common situation you will encounter. How do you explain this to students in a way that maintains their confidence to continue working, but also shows them the reality of adjusting their goals and continuing to work hard? How will you encourage and motivate a student, in a loving way, who is struggling in meeting their educational goals?
DQ2 Setting goals and having a plan creates a foundation for success. Provide a personal relevant experience where you had to set goals, formulate a plan, and how following and modifying that plan led you to success.
ELM535 Strategies for Student Engagement
Week 4 Discussion
DQ1 How does evaluation play a role in fostering student independence in the classroom? What is the most significant part of evaluation in order to create student independence?
DQ2 Select a grade level and describe how you would explain the process of assessing and monitoring progress to the students? Why is this integral to the success of fostering student independence?
ELM535 Strategies for Student Engagement
Week 5 Discussion
DQ1 What are ways educators can promote critical and reflective thinking with students? How does this strengthen the students’ skills and ownership for their learning?
DQ2 How does the teacher play a role in engaging students and developing their independence through conversations and communication in order to promote independence with intention in order to develop the student?
ELM535 Strategies for Student Engagement
Week 6 Discussion
DQ1 Teachers are constantly collecting data. Sharing this data with families can be done in a variety of ways. Research and share at least two strategies on how you would ethically share data with families concerning their child.
DQ2 Why is it important to recognize the different needs of students to successfully foster student independence at different levels? How would this look in the classroom? What are some different examples of how you can do this as a teacher?
ELM535 Strategies for Student Engagement
Week 1 Assignment
Fostering Ownership of Learning
It is crucial to show students how to take ownership of their learning in order to create lifelong learners, encourage student autonomy, and foster student independence. To promote student success, the teacher encourages engagement through motivation, and adjusts instruction based on information regarding learning needs and individual performance. Class work, homework, progress charts, class records, formative assessments, effective questioning, and classroom observations are examples of ways to monitor and document information that is relevant and significant to student learning.
Review the “Learning Plan Template” to complete this assignment.
Complete Part 1: Fostering Ownership of Learning.
Choose an elementary grade level math or English Language Arts (ELA) state standard and complete “Part 1: Fostering Ownership of Learning.” Identify appropriate strategies for direct instruction, guided practice, and independent practice related to:
Engaging students in learning.
Guiding students to take ownership in their learning.
Tracking data of student performance.
Prepare this assignment according to the guidelines found in the APA Style Guide, located in the Student Success Center. An abstract is not required.
This assignment uses a rubric. Review the rubric prior to beginning the assignment to become familiar with the expectations for successful completion.
You are required to submit this assignment to LopesWrite. Refer to the?LopesWrite Technical Support articles?for assistance.
ELM535 Strategies for Student Engagement
Week 1 Assignment
Ownership of Learning Newsletter
You have researched strategies that create student engagement through motivation in learning, and subsequent guidance of students towards ownership of learning. For this part of the assignment, create a newsletter you would use to inform parents about the process of fostering ownership of learning and how it will be implemented in the classroom to meet academic goals.
Your newsletter must include:
A definition of fostering student ownership.
The correlation between student engagement and ownership of learning.
Explanation of the relationship between motivation and engagement in helping students build self-direction and ownership of learning.
Two strategies for parents to use at home to foster this relationship.
Applicable research and a minimum of two resources for families to utilize.
Support your findings with a minimum of three scholarly resources.
Prepare this assignment according to the guidelines found in the APA Style Guide, located in the Student Success Center. An abstract is not required.
This assignment uses a rubric. Review the rubric prior to beginning the assignment to become familiar with the expectations for successful completion.
You are required to submit this assignment to LopesWrite. Refer to the?LopesWrite Technical Support articles?for assistance.
ELM535 Strategies for Student Engagement
Week 2 Assignment
Learning Objectives Plan
How the teacher communicates the learning objectives during instruction opens the door to initiate student engagement, motivate student ownership of learning, and set the stage for establishing a clear expectation of learning in the classroom.
Review the “Learning Plan Template” to complete this assignment.
Complete Part 2: Learning Objectives Plan.
Part 1: Learning Objectives Plan Chart
For this assignment, you will develop learning experiences that engage students in collaborative and self-directed learning. Using the “Learning Plan Template,” choose a math or ELA standard for the grade level that corresponds with your field experiences. Using the chosen standard, compose an aligning learning objective. Research best practices regarding how to communicate learning objectives in the classroom, helping to establish a positive and supportive learning environment. Using your research, identify and describe strategies that:
Communicate the Learning Objective (Collaborative Learning).
Check for Understanding (Self-Directed Learning).
Part 2: Strategies Summary
Using the “Learning Objectives Plan,” summarize and reflect on your strategy choices in 250-500 words. In your summary, address the following:
Describe how the strategies you chose establish an environment of learning.
How does the process of sharing objectives with students help to create a culture of self-directed learning?
How is this collaborative culture of sharing learning objectives helping the students make personal connections to their learning experiences?
How does the instructional strategy engage students in their learning?
Explain how you will use your findings in your future professional practice.
Support your findings with a minimum of three scholarly resources.
Submit the “Learning Plan Template” with your strategies summary as one deliverable.
Prepare this assignment according to the guidelines found in the APA Style Guide, located in the Student Success Center. An abstract is not required.
This assignment uses a rubric. Review the rubric prior to beginning the assignment to become familiar with the expecta
You are required to submit this assignment to LopesWrite. Refer to the?LopesWrite Technical Support articles?for assistance.
ELM535 Strategies for Student Engagement
Week 2 Assignment
Clinical Field Experience A: Communicating the Learning Objective
Allocate at least 3 hours in the field to support this field experience.
Part 1: Communicating the Learning Objectives Chart
Observe a grade level K-8 classroom during classroom instruction. During your observations, take detailed notes and identify the learning objectives and academic standards:
The method the teacher uses to communicate the learning objectives.
How the teacher creates engagement.
How the students are motivated to take ownership of the identified objectives.
The layout of the classroom.
Student engagement in the environment.
After classroom instruction and observation, engage in a dialogue about the learning objective with three students to determine, in their own words, the:
What (what the students are learning).
Why (why they are learning this).
How (how they are going to know if they have learned it).
Using the “Communicating the Learning Objectives” chart, analyze the effectiveness of communicating the learning objectives and creating an environment of learning by your mentor teacher. Base this analysis on your observations and dialogue with students.
Use any remaining field experience hours to speak with your mentor teacher and, provided permission, seek out opportunities to observe and/or assist your mentor teacher and/or work with a small group of students on instruction in the classroom.
Part 2: Learning Objectives Summary
Following your observations, write a 250-500 word reflection identifying how your mentor teacher used best practices to communicate learning objectives to students and encourage student independence. Include a summary of the dialogue with the students in the class about their understanding of the learning objective.
Your reflection should include:
Why the correlation between how the teacher communicates the learning objectives establishes a climate of learning for students.
Evidence from observations that the teacher created an environment of learning through an effective way of communicating the learning objectives, and if not, why this component is important.
Why it is important to create engagement and motivation during instruction.
Why engagement in the lesson fosters ownership of learning.
Support your findings with a minimum of three scholarly resources.
Submit the “Communicating Learning Objectives” chart and reflection as one deliverable.
APA format is not required, but solid academic writing is expected.
This assignment uses a rubric. Review the rubric prior to beginning the assignment to become familiar with the expectations for successful completion.
You are required to submit this assignment to LopesWrite. Refer to the?LopesWrite Technical Support articles?for assistance.
Document the locations and hours you spend in the field on your Clinical Field Experience Verification Form.
Submit the Clinical Field Experience Verification Form to LoudCloud in the last topic. Directions for submitting can be found on the College of Education site in the Student Success Center.
ELM535 Strategies for Student Engagement
Week 3 Assignment
Learning Objectives versus Personal Educational Goals
Identifying the correlation between learning objectives and educational goals is crucial in guiding students to take ownership of their learning. Educational goals are broader and long-term, whereas learning objectives are specific and short-term.
Fostering student ownership helps students to understand and set long-term educational goals to continuously monitor their own learning. This process allows students to participate in assessing their own progress and helps the teacher in adjusting learning outcomes.
Review the “Learning Plan Template” to complete this assignment.
Complete Part 3: Learning Objectives versus Educational Goals
Part 1: Learning Objectives versus Personal Educational Goals
Using the grade level, academic standard, and learning objectives from your Clinical Field Experience A observation, create a long-term individual educational goal.
Along with creating a long-term educational goal, develop one formative assessment and one summative assessment to check for understanding and complete “Part 3: Learning Objectives versus Educational Goals.”
Part 2: Reflection
In 250-500 words, research and reflect on the correlation between learning objectives and educational goals. Consider the following in your reflection:
What is the significance of engaging students in achieving their educational goals?
How can formative and summative assessments support the desired learning outcomes to achieve long-term goals and drive modifications in instruction to meet student needs?
How do assessments help to develop appropriate differentiation based on students learning needs?
Does the teacher have a personal responsibility to align instruction with goals?
When setting educational goals, why is it important to consider input from students, colleagues, families, and the community?
Research and provide an example of how technology can provide learning experiences and assessments that inform instruction and involve students in goal-setting, ownership of learning, and progress monitoring.
Support your findings with at least three scholarly resources.
Submit the “Learning Plan Template” with your reflection as one deliverable.
Prepare this assignment according to the guidelines found in the APA Style Guide, located in the Student Success Center. An abstract is not required.
This assignment uses a rubric. Review the rubric prior to beginning the assignment to become familiar with the expectations for successful completion.
You are required to submit this assignment to LopesWrite. Refer to the?LopesWrite Technical Support articles?for assistance.
ELM535 Strategies for Student Engagement
Week 3 Assignment
Clinical Field Experience B: Educational Goals
Allocate at least 4 hours in the field to support this field experience.
Review the “Student Personal Educational Goal Setting Form” to complete this assignment.
Modeling and guiding students through the goal setting process can be a time consuming, but extremely valuable experience. The deeper the understanding that students have, and the more practice they get, the more natural goal setting and self-assessment will become.
Part 1: Educational Goals
For this field experience, you will be working in the same classroom setting as in Clinical Field Experience A. Observe a math or English language arts lesson and identify the learning objectives delivered during instruction.
Following your observation, work with your mentor teacher to identify a small group of 2-3 students. Guide them through the process of setting educational goals directly related to the learning objectives identified in the lesson.
Have a discussion with the students about their understanding of the learning objectives. Use the “Student Personal Educational Goal Setting Form” to guide each student independently to set educational goals from the learning objectives. Reflect with students individually through this process, guiding them to formulate their own educational goals. Complete a “Student Personal Educational Goal Setting Form” for each student in your small group.
Use any remaining field experience hours to assist the mentor teacher in providing instruction and support to the class.
Part 2: Reflection
In 250-500 words, summarize and reflect upon your experience guiding the students through setting their personal education goals.
How does this process foster student ownership and independence in their own learning?
What is the correlation between creating personal education goals and self-directed learning?
How can you use this process in your future professional practice?
Submit the “Student Personal Educational Goal Setting Form” and reflection as one deliverable.
APA format is not required, but solid academic writing is expected.
This assignment uses a rubric. Review the rubric prior to beginning the assignment to become familiar with the expectations for successful completion.
You are required to submit this assignment to LopesWrite. Refer to the?LopesWrite Technical Support articles?for assistance.
ELM535 Strategies for Student Engagement
Week 4 Assignment
Self-Assessments
Self-assessments are crucial in helping students to monitor their own academic progress and helping guide ownership of learning. As students are working through their self-assessments, the teacher can continuously engage students in their own progress and then adjust instruction in response to meet their learning needs. Along with the self-assessment, students need to know how they will be graded and how to monitor their progress, which is done through a rubric. A rubric is an assessment tool that provides student’s with clear expectations for their deliverable. The rubric scaffolds to show a clear distinction between categories in order to achieve the target learning goals for the student’s assignment deliverable.
Review the “Learning Plan Template” to complete this assignment.
Complete Part 4: Assessment Plan.
Part 1: Assessment Plan
After researching different assessment methods, build on your completed assignment from Topic 3 by completing “Part 4: Assessment Plan”. Use the learning objective and educational goal created in the previous topic and create a formative and summative assessment and aligning rubric for one student you have been working with in your field experience. The assessment and rubric should be grade-level appropriate and allow the student to self-assess his or her work and monitor the progress toward his or her long-term educational goal. The rubric should demonstrate expectations for the assessment deliverable. In addition, include any necessary modifications to show how you plan to differentiate your assessment to meet diverse learning needs.
This assessment will be implemented in Clinical Field Experience C in Topic 5.
Part 2: Reflection
In 250-500 words, write a reflection regarding the process of self-assessing.
Address the following questions:
How does this monitoring process help in tracking progress, assessing data, and identifying patterns and gaps in learning?
How does the process of sharing the rubric help to establish guidelines and routines with students for them to monitor and assess their own learning?
What other progress monitoring methods can be used to track data?
How do you prepare instruction for diverse learning needs and make accommodations to meet exceptional needs and learning language needs?
When addressing individual student needs, how is a private setting for instruction that considers student data confidentiality maintained?
How do you determine your approach to collaborate with colleagues in a proper and ethical manner?
Support your findings with a minimum of three scholarly resources.
Submit the “Learning Plan Template” with your reflection as one deliverable.
Prepare this assignment according to the guidelines found in the APA Style Guide, located in the Student Success Center. An abstract is not required.
This assignment uses a rubric. Review the rubric prior to beginning the assignment to become familiar with the expectations for successful completion.
You are required to submit this assignment to LopesWrite. Refer to the?LopesWrite Technical Support articles?for assistance.
ELM535 Strategies for Student Engagement
Week 5 Assignment
Clinical Field Experience C: Self-Assessment
Allocate at least 3 hours in the field to support this field experience.
Part 1: Assessment Conversation
Choose one student with whom you have been working with in your field experiences and assess the goals for that student. After identifying and sharing the goals with the student, discuss the different ways he or she can assess their own learning.
Consider the following questions when working with the student:
What does assessment mean?
Why is assessing your own learning important?
What is most difficult about assessing your own learning and what is the easiest?
Summarize their answers in 50-100 words.
Part 2: Assessment
Using the “Assessment Plan” you created in Topic 4 with your student’s personal goals and learning objective, one aligned assessment, and rubric, implement the assessment with one student.
Share the rubric with the student, demonstrating how to monitor his or her progress and understand one’s educational goal. Remember, if you are working in the early grades, a rubric can be as simple as a happy/sad face scaffolding to show understanding.
Use any remaining field experience hours to assist the mentor teacher in providing instruction and support to the class.
Part 3: Reflection
In 250-500 words, summarize and reflect on the process of developing guidelines to track data and guide students to meet goals. Consider the following questions in your reflection:
Was the student able to understand how to assess his or her progress with the rubric?
How does this process help to foster student independence?
Why is it important to share rubrics with students prior to completing the actual assignment?
What gaps did you notice in the process of these field experiences?
How would you adapt this process to meet the needs of students in your future professional practice?
Support your findings with a minimum of three scholarly resources.
Submit the notes from the assessment discussion with the student and your reflection as one deliverable.
Prepare this assignment according to the guidelines found in the APA Style Guide, located in the Student Success Center. An abstract is not required.
This assignment uses a rubric. Review the rubric prior to beginning the assignment to become familiar with the expectations for successful completion.
You are required to submit this assignment to LopesWrite. Refer to the?LopesWrite Technical Support articles?for assistance.
ELM535 Strategies for Student Engagement
Week 5 Assignment
Benchmark – Best Practices Presentation
Your principal has noticed how well you communicate learning objectives, guide students to set individual goals, and guide students to self-assess and track their progress. Because of your successes using these best practices, he has asked you to present these methods in an upcoming professional development.
Part 1: Best Practices Presentation
For this benchmark assignment, create a 10-12 slide digital presentation of evidence-based best practices related to progress monitoring, communicating learning objectives, self-assessment, and providing effective feedback.
The presentation should include the following components:
How you communicate learning objectives to your class and measure student performance of the identified learning objectives.
How you work collaboratively with students to establish learning goals and track individual progress.
How you assist students in analyzing their work, assessment results, and keeping track of their own progress.
How you provide effective, descriptive feedback to your students.
Include a title slide, reference slide, and presenter’s notes.
Support your findings with a minimum of three scholarly resources.
Part 2: Summary
In 500-750 words summarize and examine the process of implementing your best practices in communicating objectives, progress monitoring, and providing effective feedback.
Answer the following in your summary:
What is the value of analyzing performance data? Discuss the influence instructional planning has on gaps and patterns.
How can the best practices included in your presentation inform instructional planning? How are learning gaps and patterns addressed?
How does the classroom climate influence students’ confidence in learning independently and taking ownership of their academic progress?
How does inquiry and the development of higher-order skills promote student engagement and motivation to learn?
Support your findings with a minimum of three scholarly resources.
Submit your presentation and reflection as one deliverable.
Prepare this assignment according to the guidelines found in the Style Guide, located in the Student Success Center. An abstract is not required.
This assignment uses a rubric. Review the rubric prior to beginning the assignment to become familiar with the expectations for successful completion.
You are required to submit this assignment to LopesWrite. Refer to the?LopesWrite Technical Support articles?for assistance.
ELM535 Strategies for Student Engagement
Week 6 Assignment
Questioning and Feedback
After assessing students on their progress, it is important to analyze the assessment data to help identify patterns and gaps in learning, provide meaningful feedback to students, and adjust instruction. This can be done through applying critical-thinking strategies and using higher-order questioning strategies in the classroom.
Review the “Learning Plan Template” to complete this assignment.
Complete Part 5: Questioning and Feedback, which includes addressing the following:
Provide a description of two strategies that promote questioning during instruction and how these strategies engage students and foster student independence.
Provide a description of two strategies that provide timely, meaningful, and effective feedback to students regarding their ongoing progress.
Provide two examples of digital tools and resources to promote innovation, problem solving, and creativity with the goal of increasing student engagement.
Part 2: Reflection
In 250-500 words, summarize and explain how higher-order questioning skills promote independent learning and guide students to examine their own thinking. Explain how ethics play a vital role in providing feedback and communicating assessment results to students and families. Discuss how you can use the strategies questioning and feedback in your future classroom in order to adjust instruction based on the learning needs of students.
Support your findings with a minimum of three scholarly resources.
Submit the “Learning Plan Template” with your reflection as one deliverable.
Prepare this assignment according to the guidelines found in the APA Style Guide, located in the Student Success Center. An abstract is not required.
This assignment uses a rubric. Review the rubric prior to beginning the assignment to become familiar with the expectations for successful completion.
You are required to submit this assignment to LopesWrite. Refer to the?LopesWrite Technical Support articles?for assistance.
ELM535 Strategies for Student Engagement
Week 6 Assignment
Clinical Field Experience Verification Form
Candidates must complete all programmatic requirements, including practicum/field experiences hours defined in their coursework. Additional information about practicum/field experiences can be found on the Student Success Center.
To earn credit for this assignment, all required course hours must be completed and submitted by the assignment due date.
Access the Clinical Field Experience Verification Form in the My Documents section in the Student Portal.
Complete all required fields on the Clinical Field Experience Verification Form.
Submit by clicking “click to sign.” An email will be sent to the classroom teacher/mentor to complete and verify the practicum/field experiences.
Communicate with the classroom teacher/mentor to request he or she verify the practicum/field experience. Once verified by the classroom teacher/mentor, an email will be sent to the candidate’s primary email address on file with the final completed document.
Save a .pdf copy of the completed Clinical Field Experience Verification Form to your computer.
Submit the Clinical Field Experience Verification Form to LoudCloud.
Note: The data entered into this document is subject to a verification audit. Candidates who engage in fabricating, falsifying, forging, altering, or inventing information related to practicum/field experiences, internships, clinical practice, and/or any associated documentation may be subject to sanctions for violating GCU academic integrity policies, which may include expulsion from GCU.
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