Levels of Engagementadapted from work by Phil Schlechty

Retreatism—No attention and no commitment.Ex. Memorization without application

Ritual Compliance-Low attention and low commitment.Ex. Write the spelling words five times each and use the words in a sentence.

Strategic Compliance-High attention and low commitment. Ex. A read aloud that is devoid of questions or purpose. Students may have high interest but low commitment due to a lack of purpose.

Authentic Engagement- High Attention and high commitment.Ex. Literature cirlces promote ownership of learning because students assume roles such as, discussion director, questioner, vocabulary enricher.

Remembering Understanding Applying Analyzing Evaluating Creating

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Strategic

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Retreatism

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Authentic Engagment(do not print use this page)

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UN Project– students research assigned country to find a problem

& propose solutions. Students then role play a delegates meeting

to make informed decisions

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Students conduct an experiment to test their own hypothesis & draw

conclusions based on the data.

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Students construct a compost bin in science class to breed worms for

school’s annual fishing field trip.

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Students creating and maintaining a school or class web-site.

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Students learn job skills through a shadowing program that supports

their ILP/IGP

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Students design advertising for local businesses using propaganda to be published in the local paper.

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High Attention– High Commitment

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Students explore the trigonometry that relates to a sample of

architecture of their choice.

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Students develop and implement a research-based plan to increase

voter turn-out

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Strategic Compliance(do not use)

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Read Aloud devoid of questions or purpose.

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Students are working in groups of 3 to use song, dance, and

pantomime to illustrate a portion of the text.

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High Attention and Low Commitment

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Students work in pairs to use the concept of proportionality to

measure the height of objects on campus.

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Students respond to teacher questions with CPS remote system.

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Students present/defend their solutions/answers to selected

released AP items.

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Students are working in groups to translate different scenes from

Macbeth into contemporary english.

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Ritual Compliance(do not use)

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Students define vocabulary words using an online dictionary.

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Students taking notes as they watch a video on the BP Gulf Oil

Crisis.

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Students are working at their desks to color in blank maps of Europe. They are using markers, colored

pencils, and their textbook.

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Low Attention & Low Commitment

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Students define and illustrate key terms from the current unit of

instruction.

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Students work in small groups to complete a list of algebra

problems.

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Retreatism(do not use)

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Students watch & listen as the teacher works examples on board.

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No Attention and No Committment

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Students memorizing a list of important historical dates.

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Students listen as other students recite a sonnet.

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Memorization without application.

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