Student Engagement with Allison Zmuda
This is your A-Z guide to student engagement with the one and only AZ (Allison Zmuda)! Allison Zmuda is going on 19 years as a full-time education consultant specializing in curriculum, assessment, and instruction. She helps educators design work that is relevant, meaningful, challenging, and appropriate. Since 2001, she has co-authored 11 books, and she shares her vast amount of expertise and unique perspectives with Vrain Waves through another engaging interview. You can learn along with Allison at learningpersonalized.com as well as at allisonzmuda.com Enjoy!!
Vrain Waves: Teaching Conversations with Minds Shaping Education · Ben Kalb, Becky Peters, Allison Zmuda
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Show Notes
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