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This year our newsletters have focused on resources and technology tools that increase student engagement by changing how students feel about learning and about themselves. This is the fourth and final installment of the series focusing on:
Academic Engagement -"I Can"
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Grade-Level Standards
- Productivity
- Digital Citizenship
Social Engagement -"I Belong"
- Social Awareness
- Relationship Skills
Psychological Engagement -"I Want To"
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Self-Awareness
- Self-Management
- Decision Making
In this edition we take a closer look at "I Want To" with an emphasis on recruiting interest, self-awareness, and self-management.
Other newsletters in this series:
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"I Want To" - Recruiting Interest
The types of activities that individual learners find interesting or engaging varies considerably and even the same learner will show variability over time or circumstances. Learning activities should be aligned to grade-level standards and they should be relevant and authentic.
To recruit interest and increase student engagement:
- Highlight the utility and relevance of learning goals.
- Provide choices for meeting learning goals.
- Provide authentic and meaningful learning activities.
- Provide learning activities that are culturally, socially, age and ability appropriate.
Additional resources:
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"I Want To" - Self-Awareness
Self-awareness includes an understanding of one's own character, feelings, motives, and desires as well as an understanding of one's strengths and weaknesses as a learner. Being self-aware enables a learner to choose the pathways and supports needed for attaining academic and behavioral goals.
Calm the Storm - Mental health app for Apple devices that supports the identification, reduction, and management of stress. Includes a Safety Plan of additional resources for moments of distress.
AEM Explorer
- Computer-based simulation to help identify what presentation format features will meet a student's learning needs.
Project 10 - Information and resources for increasing
Self-Advocacy and Self-Determination skills. Project 10 is a discretionary project funded through the Florida Department of Education Bureau of Exceptional Education and Student Services. For more information contact your regional representative.
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"I Want To" - Self-Management
Expert learners take responsibility for their own academic and behavioral achievement. This includes decision making, s
etting goals, using resources and strategies to sustain effort and persistence, and self-monitoring progress towards goal completion.
Staying on Track - Printable PDF that helps learners identify external and internal obstacles to staying on task.
How to Use Google Calendar - Step-by-step directions for accessing Google calendar on a computer or mobile devices including group calendars and event management.
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Ideas and Tips
Creating visual aides as a class and using them to activate discussions or share intent can increase student engagement. For example, students can chart their own progress on graphs, which will help them visualize, understand, and target their next goal.
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Announcements
Technology Advisory Committee (TAC) - Statewide workgroup that addresses assistive technology, accessible educational materials, instructional technology, Universal Design for Learning, and virtual learning for students within a multi-tiered system of supports. The TAC meets quarterly and the next meeting will be online August 29, 2018.
To learn more about current and future activities or join, email
Tony Dutra.
Additional events and conference information are available on the Technology & Learning Connections
events page.
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This
resource
was funded through the Bureau of Exceptional Education
and
Student Services with IDEA Part B dollars. The information and
resources
are provided as a free awareness service to the
educational
community
and do not reflect any specific endorsement by any parties
involved
. Please note that access to some resources may be blocked by individual school districts.
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