This page provides information on ways to engage with students. If you scroll down the page you will find the powerpoint pdf from a workshop run by Cheryl Doig. You will also find some links to webpages that may stimulate conversation or provide ideas for engaging students. Please contribute your own ideas too.

Latest information
Cheryl's presentation on student engagement - Learning@School Conference. Check out http://www.slideshare.net/CherylDoig/slideshows for other presentations.


Another Video
I really like this video put together by the Rosetown Learning Community in Te Awamutu, New Zealand. Entiltled 'You Have a Message' the video shows students being interviewed by other students about their learning. The page also contains some interesting, if somewhat scary, information about the lack of engagement of some of our students. For example:

Did you know?

Nearly 25% of students leave school without achieving a level 1 qualification. Around 40% of students leave school without achieving a level 2 qualification. Girls out-perform boys in school qualifications by a greater margin than in most other countries. The difference in average achievement between students from high and low socio-economic backgrounds is greater in New Zealand than in most OECD countries.-From the Schools Plus Discussion document

Check out the webpage and read what the students found out and how they went about obtaining data.

Recommended Student Engagement Survey
The NZ Council for Educational Research are launching a student engagement tool - check out their information NOW! I recommend you take a look at this tool because NZCER are real leaders in educational research. The survey is for students in Years 7-10.
Go to http://www.nzcer.org.nz/ for more information.

Useful websites

Let's Get Engaged. This wiki provides a range of ideas regarding how to engage students, including what student engagement actually is all about. One of the downloads includes some research conducted in schools re student engagement. This is a comprehensive survey in secondary schools, that shares student voice and poses some questions for us to consider.

The Twenty First Century Digital Learner focuses on the use of technologies in schools and how students can be engaged. Marc Prensky suggests a useful, and easy, way of hearing what students have to say about their learning. This could be useful for a school or conference to use as a provocative opening to a workshop.

The blog Digital Immigrants and Student Engagement provides reflections on the use of technology to engage students.

Staying at School provides some case studies of how some NZ Secondary Schools have helped keep their older students engaged in learning. There is a pdf of examples that can be downloaded.