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