Engaging is an educational influence method that focuses on bringing students' cognitive processes "online". In other words, engaging means promoting and supporting students' ability to give their attention and to intentionally choose to participate in the process of learning self-regulation. It includes the following:
Onboarding - Provide a process for incrementally introducing a student to the "rules" of how a course works
Fun and play - Create an enjoyable environment for learning
Urgency - Create a feeling that something needs to be done now
Curiosity - Create some mystery and provide opportunities for student discovery
Variety - Provide several types of activities and experiences to present content
Give people opportunity to consider information more deeply and act according to it
Salient information - Give students useful, important information to engage with and consider
Feedback - Help students adjust their thinking by providing helpful information about their performance they can use to consider new approaches to future situations
Introspection and articulation - Prompt students to consider the content in the context of their own experiences and thinking and provide opportunities to express what they discover in complete sentences
Situated cognition and experiential learning - Provide authentic experiences situated in as close to the actual environments as possible through projects and simulations
Assessing
Perceive task - Understand what is expected
Evaluate task - Identify the specific requirements
Evaluate self - Consider your own abilities
Performing
Identify Standards - Determine how your learning will be evaluated
Set Goals - Establish what your final results should look like
Plan - Define when you will do what
Act - Time on task, Quality work, Meet deadlines, Thoughtful consideration
Evaluating
Monitor self - Consider your own cognitive and emotional response
Evaluate performance - Compare your results with the task's standards
Evaluate reactions - Consider how your teacher or grader responded to your work
Adapt - Use what you learned in the Evaluating phase to improve in the next cycle
