Description
Employees of the Mitchell School District are invited to participate in the SDEA book study "The Educator's ATLAS: Your Roadmap to Engagement" by Weston Kieschnick. This course runs September 30, 2024 - January 8, 2025.
Think back to your most engaging experience as a student. What made it so exhilarating and memorable? What made it so effective?
Such questions about student engagement obsessed Weston Kieschnick from his earliest days as a teacher. Today, Kieschnick travels the globe to keynote and coach educators on the topics most relevant to student success. In the intervening decades, Kieschnick refined his teaching craft, observed the most captivating teachers, and studied the best speakers to reverse engineer a student engagement formula. The result is the ATLAS model—a simple, five-point roadmap for capturing student engagement in the first moments of class sustaining it all the way to the last.
The Educator's ATLAS holds both learner needs and teacher wisdom in equal importance. Central to this is a definition of student engagement that—once and for all—clarifies the teacher’s actionable role. Teachers will finish this book with a plan in hand and the full confidence that they are ready to be engagement pros. And as is always the case with Kieschnick’s books, readers will laugh and have a lot of fun along the way.
Objectives
Participants will be able to:
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Analyze the factors that contribute to high levels of student engagement in the classroom, as outlined by the author.
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Develop and implement a personalized plan to apply the ATLAS model in their own classrooms, with the goal of enhancing student engagement from the start to the end of class.
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Critically assess how to balance the needs of learners with the wisdom and experience of the teacher, using insights from the book.
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