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Student Engagement/Motivation 2 years, 10 months ago #1521

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Does WBT look at student engagement and motivation as similiar terms, the same or different? IS WBT more classroom mangagement centered?I would appreciate any input!
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Re:Student Engagement/Motivation 2 years, 10 months ago #1526

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WBT in general, sees student engagement as resulting from good student motivation. They are cause and effect, not necessarily the same thing, at least in my opinion.

You can really think of WBT as having two major components. Classroom management, and teaching methods. The WBT classroom is most fun and effective when you are using the two together as an integrated whole. I know of teachers who favor using one part or the other.

Personally, I find it much more effective to use both components. The classroom management portion is strongly constructed and provides a coherent set of interactive supports between all its sections. The teaching methods are based on the latest in brain based research for best practices for teachers.

I teach middle school science and social studies, and college level history. In my college class last semester I had one student who commented that he had been through an orientation on the way college classes should be taught, and in three years my WBT based class was the ONLY one that followed the guidelines he had learned as the most effective way to learn for the students- cool, hunh?

Re:Student Engagement/Motivation 2 years, 5 months ago #2909

Which came first classroom management or student engagement? The age old question in education. In my opinion, you can have classroom management without student engagement, but student engagement will almost take care of classroom management. There are teachers that have a very conventional, structured class where everyone follows the rules and raises their hands, but the kids are not truly engaged. It is impossible not to be engaged as a learner or teacher with WBT and that will take care of most classroom management issues.

Re:Student Engagement/Motivation 2 years, 4 months ago #2928

I have a situation that I need help with from some of you "experts with WBT" as I have just started using WBT this year...

I am an Instructional Coach and Science Specialist at a K-4 elementary school in Arkansas. I go into each teacher's class at least once a week and do a hands-on science lesson with each class. I introduced WBT to all of the teachers during a pre-school inservice day last August and have had several of my teachers begin using it with their class all the time. I use it when I go into each class to teach science and am having great success with several of my classes, however, I am having difficutly keeping the enthusiasium going as I am on a time crunch when I go in each class and I am dealing with another teacher's classroom management system... or most importantly lack of classroom management!!! Do you have any suggestions to help me keep the energy going and keep the poor classroom management classes going... I seem to have to give out many frownies in those classes and somehow they are not very motivated (due to the nagging they have to hear constantly by their regular teacher...) I need some really wonderful way to motivate them to do the required task when I am in there so that their teacher will see the positive benefits from WBT...

Thanks,
Jeanine

Re:Student Engagement/Motivation 2 years, 4 months ago #2931

Jeanine,
I see your situation similar to a being substitute teacher. You are only in a given classroom for a short amount of time. By using the Scoreboard (your Motivator), the engagement will increase. When it engagement levels wains, find students in the the room that are displaying the appropriate level of engagement, praise them, Ping/Pong back and forth on the scoreboard, being mindful of the +/-3 rule and move on.
Another strategy is to have them play the scoreboard for a reward. The reward is a few minutes of mind soccer at the end of class. This game will be based on what they learned (and taught each other), throughout the lesson. It is fun and a great academic reward.

Re:Student Engagement/Motivation 2 years, 4 months ago #2936

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Calito is on the right track-- I am a G/T specialist in Utah, and when I go in to do demo lessons in other rooms, I don't use the other teacher's management system at all-- by using WBT it's enough of a 'novelty' for the kids to be engaged... I think the key to unmotivated students is to remember to make the scoreboard fun and silly, humorous...NOT a war. Make your reward realistic, be consistent with that reward, and make sure it's a reward YOU can follow through on, not one that their teacher needs to deliver after you leave.
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