Developing an Engagement Strategy by Linda Facchini

Step One: Consider this list of engagement strategies we've brainstormed.

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Step Two: Choose one strategy from the list (or one of your own) and add it to one category on this Padlet.

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Step Three: Take turns sharing with your group why you chose that strategy and how you could incorporate it in your class.

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Optional: How could your strategy be adapted to different teaching modalities (eg. in-person, online, HyFlex)?

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Help students learn each others’ names.

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Incorporate games

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Incorporate games

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Using Kahoot to deliver formative assessment and reinforce correct responses is a fun way to incorporate variety and create a sense of community.

Use of an icebreaker

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Demonstrate how a topic or skill is used in real life

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Learning to be a nursing professional lends itself to a diverse range of situations where theoretical knowledge must be applied in urgent/ emergent circumstances. Of course there are also many situations where this sense of urgency is less pronounced, however, even in these cases the application of knowledge is important. Specifically, when learning about topics like research methods in nursing, there may be a sense that the knowledge is irrelevant or far removed from the more "important" topics related to nursing (i.e. pharmacology). I believe that including examples and activities that showcase how the application of research is done, why it matters, and how it naturally lends itself to evidence based practice is an important step to combatting some of these common ways of thinking student may have related to research methods. Incorporating activities like breaking students into groups and having them critically reflect on using tools like MMR on published articles and how they apply to practice is one example.

High Expectations

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Communicate to your students that you have high expectations (e.g., "this is challenging work) but accompany this with encouragement (e.g., "and I believe in your ability to meet this challenge).

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1) Demonstrating how a topic/skill is used in real life. 2) Self-chosen topic. 3) Helping students learn to self-asses.

Use quick diagnostic quizzes to find out where they are the start of a topic

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Multiple entry points to topics so novices can focus on the basics, and others can stretch themselves

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Group Work

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Students can help each other (scaffold their learning) and can be randomly selected through an online tool.