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Students stop trying
When students do not connect, they disengage. Engagement strategies build both motivation and participation.
Program two
Bring the unmotivated back into the lesson
Teachers spend one day on research-based engagement strategies built for students who grew up with screens.
+22%
Higher math achievement for engaged students
Gallup, 2019
2.5×
More likely to earn excellent grades
Gallup, 2018
74% → 33%
Engagement decline, 5th grade to high school
Gallup, 2018
+20%
Achievement gain from this category of strategies
Marzano, 2003
Why this training
Four signs a campus needs engagement training
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Phones get the attention
Storytelling, randomization, and attention-grabbers give the lesson a fair chance.
03
Nothing sticks
Connecting content to students' lives raises retention.
04
Anxiety at test time
Dynamic tension strategies help students handle pressure and build resilience.
Research
"Focusing on students' social-emotional development had the largest contribution to the effectiveness of classroom management strategies."
Korpershoek et al. (2016). Review of Educational Research, Vol. 86, No. 3.
The five pillars
One day, five pillars
Every pillar comes with modeling and practice, so teachers can use it right away.
1. Positive Feelings
2. Attention & Interest
3. Connectedness
4. Self-Efficacy
5. Sharing Best Practices
Pillar One
Promoting positive feelings
Students arrive with different backgrounds, abilities, and experiences. The emotional climate of the room is the first lever for engagement, and teachers learn to use movement, real-time feedback, and more of their own personality to set it.
Pillar Two
Promoting attention and interest
How do you compete with a phone? With randomization, good questions, and stories. Teachers practice all three.
Pillar Three
Promoting connectedness and relevance
Students ignore material that feels irrelevant. Teachers learn to build connection points between the curriculum and students' lives, using synectics, visual approaches, and brainstorming, so lessons are remembered.
Pillar Four
Promoting self-efficacy
Resilient learners handle tests better than anxious ones. This pillar uses dynamic tension strategies to build that resilience, along with reflective practice for students and teachers.
Pillar Five
Sharing best practices
The matrix method turns individual good ideas into team resources. Teachers record their best lessons and see where the team needs more.
Agenda
How the engagement day runs
A typical full day is below. The format is flexible, and the training happens at your school.
The morning is about getting students into the lesson. Between 8:30 AM and 12:00 PM, teachers learn the pillars of engagement-first instruction and work on motivation, positive feelings, movement and brain-friendly strategies, and attention through randomization and storytelling.
The afternoon is about keeping them there. After lunch (12:00 to 1:00 PM), the block from 1:00 to 3:30 PM covers relevance, personal connections, visual images, self-efficacy, and responding under pressure.
One day for every teacher
Ask Amine Bouhzam for a quote and choose a date.