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Boost Student Engagement: The CPM Process
Boost Student Engagement: The CPM Process
Do you know how to engage student attention? Try this multi-step process to engaging students' brains during learning experiences. You will learn the CPM Process, make connections to high-effect size strategies, and digital tools that work.
Do you know how to engage student attention? Try this multi-step process to engaging students' brains during learning experiences. You will learn the CPM Process, make connections to high-effect size strategies, and digital tools that work.
Wait, wait, before we get started!! Let's take a moment to ask ourselves, "How do I feel today?"
Acknowledging our feelings can get us feeling "meta" and assist us in moving forward in line with, or in spite of, how we feel.
Wait, wait, before we get started!! Let's take a moment to ask ourselves, "How do I feel today?"
Acknowledging our feelings can get us feeling "meta" and assist us in moving forward in line with, or in spite of, how we feel.
Today's Session
Today's Session
1- Brain Myths You Didn't Know About
1- Brain Myths You Didn't Know About
2- The CPM Process
2- The CPM Process
- Boost Curiosity
- Encourage Predictions
- Get Metacognitive
3 - Resources and Infographics For You
3 - Resources and Infographics For You
1- Brain Myths You Didn't Know About
1- Brain Myths You Didn't Know About
There is a plethora of pop research. That is, brain research that is popular, yet inaccurate.
There is a plethora of pop research. That is, brain research that is popular, yet inaccurate.
Here’s a quick review of brain myths that are completely untrue in case you missed some of the latest updates.
Here’s a quick review of brain myths that are completely untrue in case you missed some of the latest updates.
If you put brain-based learning in place, you will see increased knowledge retention; it’s simply a fact. What’s more, you will see improved academic performance (source).
If you put brain-based learning in place, you will see increased knowledge retention; it’s simply a fact. What’s more, you will see improved academic performance (source).
As we know, brain-based learning strategies affect more than the skills our children learn.
As we know, brain-based learning strategies affect more than the skills our children learn.
They can also affect social and emotional development and improve motivation and attitude.
They can also affect social and emotional development and improve motivation and attitude.
Brain-Based Learning Solution Approaches
Brain-Based Learning Solution Approaches
Play music: Engage prediction by playing music related to future lessons.
Relevant displays: Use relevant, new displays. Remember the new, unusual, unexpected is what captures student attention.
Show video: Display video clips that cultivate curiosity about the next lesson.
Use suspense: Make your lessons suspenseful. Add in suspenseful pauses, find concepts that are surprising, and engage students' interest or effort.
Greet students: Greet students at the door to build relationships and wear a hat/costume or ask a riddle to get them thinking.
Vary speech and movement: Don't be afraid to move in different ways and/or vary your speech and cadence.
Visuals and relevance: Start with impressive visual aids. Connect to issues of interest to community or high interest.
Wait, There's More!
Wait, There's More!
The Reticular Activating System (RAS) is our executive assistant, an agent that acts to eliminate the unnecessary information and presents us only with what we need to know to survive. The RAS can be habituated to exclude meaningless and repetitive signals that are deemed to be consistently unimportant (source).
The Reticular Activating System (RAS) is our executive assistant, an agent that acts to eliminate the unnecessary information and presents us only with what we need to know to survive. The RAS can be habituated to exclude meaningless and repetitive signals that are deemed to be consistently unimportant (source).
That means our students' brains can be taught to ignore ineffective learning experiences or those who perpetrate these experiences...their teachers.
That means our students' brains can be taught to ignore ineffective learning experiences or those who perpetrate these experiences...their teachers.
2- The CPM Process
2- The CPM Process
Authors Dr. Judy Willis and Malana Willis highlight the power of the brain's Reticular Activating System (RAS). The Reticular Activating System (RAS) works as an information filter.
Authors Dr. Judy Willis and Malana Willis highlight the power of the brain's Reticular Activating System (RAS). The Reticular Activating System (RAS) works as an information filter.
The RAS allows only one percent of the information to filter through. That’s right; your attention intake filters block millions of bits of information, keeping out the irrelevant.
The RAS allows only one percent of the information to filter through. That’s right; your attention intake filters block millions of bits of information, keeping out the irrelevant.
This is a challenge for teachers because it prevents students from paying attention to and retaining what is being taught.
This is a challenge for teachers because it prevents students from paying attention to and retaining what is being taught.
How do you get around that?
How do you get around that?
Activity: Think - Pair - Share
Activity: Think - Pair - Share
What are some ways you get students' attention to new information you share in the classroom?
What are some ways you get students' attention to new information you share in the classroom?
The Power of Curiosity, Predictions, and Metacognition
The Power of Curiosity, Predictions, and Metacognition
Combine this this 3-step process with technology before and during a learning experience:
Combine this this 3-step process with technology before and during a learning experience:
- Boost Curiosity
- Encourage Predictions
- Get Metacognitive
Let's explore some ideas.
Let's explore some ideas.
a) Boost Curiosity
a) Boost Curiosity
Want to make learning memorable and desirable? Get students' curious while they are learning something.
Want to make learning memorable and desirable? Get students' curious while they are learning something.
Digital tools like Zigazoo and video creation tools to accomplish this.
Digital tools like Zigazoo and video creation tools to accomplish this.
Zigazoo: Encourages “short-form video” creations from children. Zigazoo offers a variety of creative options and enables children to create video responses to educational content in a safe environment. It's free on Android and iOS.
Learn more.
A Quick Poll
A Quick Poll
Use movie trailers to preview upcoming lessons, as well as wall puzzles.
Use movie trailers to preview upcoming lessons, as well as wall puzzles.
Access the Film Education website for specific suggestions on how to use film to support instructional goals. Here are some movie trailer storyboard template sites to get you started:
Access the Film Education website for specific suggestions on how to use film to support instructional goals. Here are some movie trailer storyboard template sites to get you started:
It's easy to get locked into certain ideas or approaches. Experiment and try things out with your students. The variety can offer a bit of relief and stimulate student curiosity about what they are going to learn.
Two examples here to kindle curiosity. The first is an example of how to adjust an old story we are familiar with. The second is (Language Lessons trailer) presents one possibility for organizing movie trailers to introduce new lesson ideas.
Two student-created trailers about existing content. How could students be given the skeleton of a story then make a trailer about it?
Some More Ideas
Some More Ideas
- Use a story to illustrate important concepts.
- Use humor or an anecdote.
- Ask a question and then pause for at least five seconds rather than for a shorter period.
- Use topic-related visual aids as you talk such as photographs, cartoons or charts.
- Vary the tone, speed or loudness of your voice.
- Move around the room as you talk.
- Gesture while you speak, using animated hand and arm movements or facial expressions.
- Take advantage of Entry Tickets or Bell Ringers.
Ways to Kindle Curiosity
Ways to Kindle Curiosity
Activity: Let's Give It a Try
Activity: Let's Give It a Try
Create a dicebreaker activity using one of the templates available. Learn more about dicebreakers here.
Create a dicebreaker activity using one of the templates available. Learn more about dicebreakers here.
b) Encourage Predictions
b) Encourage Predictions
Continue to boost during learning. To do that, ask students to make predictions about
Continue to boost during learning. To do that, ask students to make predictions about
- how something works,
- what it does, and
- how it is relevant to the lesson.
Some ideas:
Some ideas:
- Create mystery containers and ask them to predict what's inside,
- Engage in previewing media/text, or
- Use realia as a source for questions.
Prediction, A Key Strategy in Reciprocal Teaching
Prediction, A Key Strategy in Reciprocal Teaching
Reciprocal Teaching (Palinscar & Brown, 1984) has strong support among researchers. View classroom procedure.
Reciprocal Teaching (Palinscar & Brown, 1984) has strong support among researchers. View classroom procedure.
Consider that John Hattie’s meta-analyses results include reciprocal teaching as a high-impact strategy. Its effect size of .79 means that it can advance student achievement almost two years growth for one year of school.
Consider that John Hattie’s meta-analyses results include reciprocal teaching as a high-impact strategy. Its effect size of .79 means that it can advance student achievement almost two years growth for one year of school.
Prediction is a core component of the strategy. Students can use what they have read, text features to figure out what they will learn (or happen) next.
Prediction is a core component of the strategy. Students can use what they have read, text features to figure out what they will learn (or happen) next.
Prediction Sentence stems include:
Prediction Sentence stems include:
I think...
I think the next section will be about...
I think this text will tell us...
I wonder if...
I imagine...
I suppose...
I predict...
This text will explain...
When reading about this topic, we will need to know...
A statement that might be important to reading this piece is...
What do we think we know about this topic already?
Mystery Containers or Boxes
Mystery Containers or Boxes
Lesson Ideas
Lesson Ideas
Suggested Procedure
Think-Pair-Share. Define the word "observation." Have students use their senses to describe size, shape, color, smell, sound, etc. of an object. "I observe" or "Our observations suggest that..." are sentence starters they can use.
Observe. Have student pairs use their sense of sight to observe a Mystery Container. Log observations on a chart, avoiding opinions. Rule: Box stays on table.
Handle Mystery Container. Allow students to pick up the container, and make observations using their other senses, not only sight. Rule is: Box stays closed.
Share. After making more observations, ask students to share their observations. Record their ideas. (They should be describing size, shape, texture, what they hear, etc.)
c) Get Metacognitive
c) Get Metacognitive
Did you know you can train your "attention filter" (a.k.a. RAS) to prioritize information you focus on? Extend the boost to learning with self-regulating activities that enhance metacognition.
Did you know you can train your "attention filter" (a.k.a. RAS) to prioritize information you focus on? Extend the boost to learning with self-regulating activities that enhance metacognition.
Teach lessons while introducing distractions. Ask students to track what kept their attention or interrupted it, then discuss how to stay focused.
Teach lessons while introducing distractions. Ask students to track what kept their attention or interrupted it, then discuss how to stay focused.
Reflection and Metacognition
Reflection and Metacognition
The benefits of student reflection on learning include metacognition. Benefits include:
Increasing the depth of knowledge,
Identifying the areas which are missing or deficient,
Personalizing and contextualizing knowledge,
Providing comparative references in learning, and helping learners build structural connections in
knowledge and social connections among learners
Twig Create makes it easy to create videos for free.
You can see some examples to the right. Find more online at their website or via their YouTube channel.
Resources and Infographics For You
Resources and Infographics For You
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