Student Engagement with Allison Zmuda

Connect with Allison Zmuda
Twitter: @allison_zmuda | Website: allisonzmuda.com, learningpersonalized.com

Connect with Vrain Waves
Twitter: @VrainWaves | Becky Twitter: @BeckyEPeters | Ben Twitter: @mrkalb

Links & Show Notes

• To skip ahead to the interview, go to the 8 minute mark
• Out of Our Heads and Into the Classroom: (01:20)
• Students keeping track of mistakes & analyzing errors: Student Assessment Reflection Template (uncommon schools); from Driven by Data (Santoyo)
• Another example
• A slightly different approach
• Mardi Gras Napkins (3:31)
• Annotating pictures with Markup (5:09)
• Vrain Waves Episode with George Couros
• Allison intro (08:20)
• Allison’s books (08:44)
• Allison on student engagement (learning is a voluntary endeavor) (09:00)
• What is engagement (10:30)
• Chart created with Robyn Jackson (Engaged or Compliant Learner)
• Real Engagement book
• Episode with Elizabeth Green (14:18)
• Constraints of Time (15:28)
• It’s not the topic, it’s the goals; what are you trying to go after?
• Classroom management / student behavior (18:15)
• Habits of Mind (19:16)
• Restorative Justice (20:40)
• Bena Kallick - Personalized Learning & Habits of Mind (21:17)
• Art Costa
• -ing verbs - we are all becoming
• Measuring engagement (23:27)
• Results-Only Learning Environment (26:49)
• 4 Cs of Real Engagement (28:14) Clarity, Context, Challenge, Culture
• Clarity = goal clarity; what are you aiming for? “The teacher is not the customer that the students are trying to make happy.”
• Understanding by Design (29:20)
• Challenge (30:07) Teacher modeling learning
• Allison’s challenge with her stroke (34:15)
• Professional Collaboration (41:05)
• Allison’s favorite examples of engagement (44:43)
• Learningpersonalized.com (47:40)
• “It is, in fact, nothing short of a miracle that the modern methods of education have not yet entirely strangled the holy curiosity of inquiry...”
• Habits of Mind: Listening with Understanding and Empathy / Thinking Interdependently (51:20)
• Bad advice (52:30) - micromanaging content & skills
• Tools from Allison Zmuda:
• 7 Elements of Personalized Learning
• Using the sliders to personalize design