Engage

= WEEK 1 - ENGAGE =


 * What is the Engage  Domain? **

In the Engage Domain teachers are encouraged to:
 * Fosters positive relationships with and between students and develop shared expectations for learning and interacting
 * Stimulate interest and curiosity, promote questioning and connect learning to real world experiences
 * Structure tasks, elicits students’ prior knowledge and supports them to make connections to past learning experiences
 * Present a purpose for learning, determining challenging learning goals and making assessment and performance requirements clear
 * Assist students to consider and identify processes that will support the achievement of the learning goals


 * Activities for the Engage Domain**
 * 1) Go to the discussions for the Engage Domain (Discussions 1-5) and respond to the questions asked in the forum. Comment on other people's comments too.
 * 2) After considering the questions in the discussion forums look at the profile statements for the Engage Domain and rate yourself as Level 1, 2, 3 or 4. [[file:ENGAGE DOMAIN PROFILE STATEMENTS.doc]]
 * 3) Think about why you have rated yourself this - what do you say, do, write or see in your own teaching that made you select this level in the domain?
 * 4) Open this e5 Reflection file and write your responses in the appropriate section.[[file:e5 INSTRUCTIONAL MODEL PERSONAL RATING.doc]]
 * 5) Save this file to your computer as we will use it each week.
 * 6) Reflect on a class and how you will work on further developing your capabilities in the Engage Domain. Look at the ideas on how to Engage students in their learning and consider how you might adapt them for your class.
 * 7) Return to the discussion section and in ** Engage Discussion 6 ** write about what you are going to do before the next meeting.
 * 8) Please complete the reflection so that we can make the program better for you. The reflection is in the discussion section of this page.