1. Student engagement in
classrooms
Presented by
Dhiv and Tara

2. Aims
Participants will:
 Consider ideas that support student engagement
 Consider these strategies in their own setting

3. Engagement
 Maintaining focus throughout the lesson so that
students are engaged at all times

4. Do you constantly hear the
following
1) Person 1
2) Person 2
3) Person 3
4) Person 4
5) Person 5

5. Activity
 (Groups) In your classroom context, without talking write down as many
examples of what affects students being engaged in your journals.
 You have 1 minute
 Discuss in your groups and be ready to share with the whole group
 You have 45 seconds
 Share: Wheel Decide

6. Implication
There are many challenges that we face everyday with
engaging students
Consequences include
 Affect student learning
 Behaviour management issues
 Power struggles
 List goes on………….

7. Theory
1) Rita Pearson
If positive relationships are not built with students,
student engagement can be a big problem

8. Theory
2) Aitsl
Student engagement assists with the cognitive, behavioural and
emotional aspect of student learning

9. Student engagement
examples (English)
 Low level class
 Class challenges throughout each unit of study.
 Change to suit each topic
 Houses, Teams, Superheroes
 First one to class to tell me……
 Stop and Stand
 Changing seats

10. Student engagement
examples (Science)
1. Alpha waves meditation music
1. ‘Cool science experiments’ videos
1. ‘Amazing pictures’ slide shows

12. Time to wake you up !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

14. Review
Participants will:
 Consider ideas that support student engagement
 Consider these strategies in their own setting

15. Review
 Activity:
 In your journals
 Based on your list of the challenges that you
already came up with, write down 5 examples of
what you can do to engage students in your class.