Student Engagement and Learning

Are you looking for ways to enhance your practice of teaching? Do you need to find new and exciting ways to engage your students? This Student Engagement and Learning course, offered by our accredited school partners, explores the potential of formative assessment and techniques for improving student learning. We summarize key research on classroom formative assessment and show how these practices have a greater impact on educational achievement than most other reforms. Finally, practical techniques are discussed to help educators incorporate strategies into classroom practice. After completing this course, you should be able to: • Recall the impact of teacher quality and the importance of professional development when it comes to formative assessment • Recognize learning intentions and criteria and how to elicit evidence of learning • Identify techniques for cooperative learning and ways to move learning forward • Define applications for student self-assessment and self-testing Enroll through one of our accredited university or college partners today!

Module 1-Educational Achievement and Formative Assessment • Importance of Educational Achievement • Impact of Teacher Quality • Importance of Professional Development • Origins of Formative Assessment • Assessment: The Bridge Between Teaching and Learning Module 2-Learning Intentions and Criteria • When to Use Learning Intentions • The Case for and Against Rubrics • Evidence of Learning • Discovering Where Students’ Ideas Come From • Practical Techniques Module 3-Providing Feedback and Activating Learners • Quality of Feedback • Feedback as a Recipe for Future Action • Effective Cooperative Learning • Instructional Resources • Ways to Move Learning Forward Module 4-Activating Learners as Owners of Their Own Learning • Student Self-Assessment • Self-Testing • Self-Regulated Learning • Metacognition • Integration of Motivational and Metacognitive Perspectives

All required reference materials are provided with this program. Technical requirements: Internet Connection • Broadband or High-Speed (DSL, Cable, Wireless) Hardware Requirements • Processor - 2GHz Processor or Higher • Memory - 1 GB RAM Minimum Recommended Software Requirements • Operating Systems - Windows 7, 8 or 10; Mac OS x 10 or higher • Microsoft Office 2007, 2010 or 2013 or a Word Processing application to save and open Microsoft Office formats (.doc, .docx, .xls, .xlsx, .ppt, .pptx) • Internet Browsers - Google Chrome is highly recommended • Cookies MUST be enabled • Pop-ups MUST be allowed (Pop-up Blocker disabled) • Adobe PDF Reader

This class is an independent-study course. Students will have all the resources needed to successfully complete the course within the online material. A student helpdesk is available for technical support during the course enrollment.