Collaborative Learning _10/06/23
Name
Marianella Lovato
Instructional Strategies: Hooking Students to Instruction
Engagement Strategies Summary:
In the meeting, we discussed five main hooking strategies: Talk About The Self, Student Interest, Pose a
Challenge, Foster Connections, and Introduce Novelty. We should constantly monitor the class to
discern the appropriate response for engaging our students. Hooking students to instruction is essential
because students perform better when they see some connection between the content and themselves
or the world around them.
1. Choose a strategy from the presentation slides that you naturally implement into your teaching
process. How have you hooked students into your instructions?
I usually connect sports when I want to teach them how important is to be disciplined in live.
You can have talents but if you do not use them constantly like when you practice a sport and
you need to repeat the same movement multiple times in order to improve and if you want
to be the best player that requires a lot of dedication. You need to sleep enough hours, eat
and do not eat certain kind of food, etc.
When I explain about quadratic equations for example, that equation represent the
movement of a ball when you hit it.
2.
Take time to discover students' interests you might not know very well. What did you do to
learn about their interests? How can you connect their interests to a/the subject you teach?
Most of the students are athletes and the firsts days of school I ask them to raise their hands
if they play baseball, then basketball, etc. Students who did not raise their hands then I ask
them about what are their hobbies or what they do after school. I have musicians and artists
in class. Then for some lessons I ask for posters (my artists students do fantastic boards)
3.
Try out a new strategy from the presentation slides. After you attempt to implement your
engagement strategies, reflect. What did you do? How did it go? Is there anything that you’d
change or keep for the future?
The new strategy that I used was to write a question or to write a formula and ask one or two
challenging questions. But instead of doing this with the whole class, students worked in
groups (no more than three students per group). I could see that most of students participate,
especially my shy students. From now on I will adapt my lessons to be able to work on them
in groups.