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After School Professional Development Program65 Court Street, Room 224, Brooklyn, NY 11201Helaine Schwartz, Director aspdp@schools.nyc.govParticipants who successfully adapt this course’s strategies for motivating and engaging students will behelping their students to achieve the CCSS literacy standards. They will, for example, diversify their choicesof texts, using more nonfiction examples that appeal to student interest. They will also be promoting moredepth of knowledge in the disciplines and increasing text complexity in order to challenge students.Method of Instruction: List the method of presenting: Classroom video or interactive hands-on activity.Include strategies to meet diverse learning needs (differentiated instruction).• eBook• Reflection prompts• Discussion forumClassroom Practice: Specify what skills and strategies the participant will bring back to his/her classroom.After completing this unit, participants will apply the following skills:• Use games and other inconsequential competition, friendly controversy, unusual orintriguing information, and effective questioning techniques to stimulate their students’engagementResources (readings, artifacts, internet sites, videos, etc): Provide the title, author, edition, publisher,cost, and where it is available. If there is a guest speaker, include the presenter’s name and affiliation.• eBook (available through the eClassroom)Guest Speakers:CalendarSession # 9Date: self-pacedTime: self-pacedNumber of hours for this session: 2.5Topics: List session topic and material, e.g. handouts. Indicate midterm and final exam date.Is This Important?In this unit, Marzano and Pickering focus their attention on how teachers can make their contentrelevant to their students’ lives in the present and to their short- and long-term ambitions. Theydetail such strategies as personal projects that invite students to articulate and pursue goals and howto make tasks cognitively complex to the degree that students are absorbed by them. Interviews,workshop discussion, and classroom footage translate theory into practice.Objectives: Specify instructional goals and standards for each session.After completing this unit, participants will know:• The role of importance in student engagement• Strategies to help students answer positively the question, “is this important?”Revised 11.2011 his