Quality Instruction to

Provide Effective
Classroom Engagement
Shelly Caron
March 9, 2022
Objectives:
● The participants will be able to identify ways to engage students using
the ARCS Model of Motivational Design
● The participants will develop ways to use differentiated instruction to
build quality instruction
● The participant will create a lesson that they can implement in their
classroom using at least one of the ARCS Model of Motivational
Design and some form of differentiated learning
Timeline/Agenda for today’s presentation:
1. Opening with objective for the class and outline of the day (5min)
2. What is the ARCS Model of Motivational Design (5 min)
3. Breakout groups role playing the different ARCS (10 min)
4. What differentiated instruction looks like in quality instruction? (10 min)
5. Grade level breakout to build lesson plans using ARCS, differentiated
instruction, Gagne’s 9 Events of Instruction, and incorporating the schools
mission (15 min)
6. Sharing of lessons with whole group (10 min)
7. Next Step (5 min)
Why do we need to engage our students?
Why is it important to engage our students before we start a lesson?
Let’s watch this short video on the importance of engaging students:

https://youtu.be/kaxh9JgsOo0

What are some ways that we can engage our students with things that are
important to them? Share with your table partners some of the things your
students like and how you could incorporate it into your lesson.
What is ARCS Model of Motivational Design?
ARCS Model of Motivational Design is a way to promote and keep motivation in
the learning process. There are 4 ways to motivate students:

1. Attention: active participation, discussions, humor, examples, inquiry

2. Relevance: experience, future usefulness, modeling
3. Confidence: likelihood for success, objectives and evaluate criteria, feedback,
grow the learner
4. Satisfaction: learning must be rewarding, skill is useful , provide
reinforcement
Charades with the ARCS Model of Motivational
Design
Each small group will be given an card with one of the ARCS: Attention;
Relevance; Confidence; or Satisfaction.

Your group will be need to come up with a short charade to demonstrate the
motivational design. You will present the charade to the rest of the class and
the class will guess the motivational design you are demonstrating.

You have 5 minutes to come up with your charade. GO!

Adding Differentiated Instruction to your
lessons
What is Differentiated Instruction?? Let’s watch this short video on what
differentiated instruction looks like:
https://youtu.be/h7-D3gi2lL8
When we are differentiating learning we are giving students instruction in a way
that helps them meet their individual needs. The goal needs to be the
understanding of the lesson, and how each student gets there needs to be based
on their individual strengths and needs. These two articles will help you to better
understand differentiated learning.

https://www.understood.org/articles/en/differentiated-instruction-what-you-need-to-know
https://resilienteducator.com/classroom-resources/examples-of-differentiated-instruction/
Differentiated Learning
Let’s take a few minutes in our groups to read these articles.

In your groups discuss ways that you can take this information and differentiate your
instruction while still covering the standards.
Aligning our lessons with our mission
When we are planning our lessons we also need to keep in mind our school
mission and what guides us in educating our students:

Holy Family School is a Catholic Community with a commitment to faith development and
active engagement in learning. We provide intentional academic and co-curricular programs,
building foundational skills for ongoing success in high school and beyond. Through our
shared values and beliefs, we partner with families to create an atmosphere of support and
acceptance for all students to flourish.
Gagne’s 9 Events of Instruction
As we build our lessons we need to remember to include the Gaines 9 Events of Instruction in
every lesson we do:
1. Gaining Attention
2. Informing learners of objectives
3. Stimulating recall of prior knowledge
4. Presenting the content
5. Providing learning guidance
6. Eliciting performance
7. Providing feedback
8. Assessing performance
9. Enhancing retention and transfer of knowledge
Breakout groups
In your grade level groups you are going to be given time right now to work on building a lesson to
teach in your classroom that incorporates one of the ARCS, one form of differentiated learning, our
school mission, and the Gagne’s 9 Events of Instruction.

We will have about 15-20 minutes right now to

start developing this lesson.

Share Out

Let’s take a few minutes right now to share out with one another what we
have planned so far. Remember these are just beginning plans and a way
for us to share ideas with one another.

Often hearing what our colleagues have to say, might help us to think of a
new idea as well
Next Step……

Over the course of the next two weeks you will be teaching this
lesson you are creating to your class.
At our next staff meeting in three weeks we will have time for you
to share out how your lesson went. Please bring a copy of your
lesson plan and an exit ticket from your students demonstrating
how the lesson went.
Accountability
Please submit a copy of your lesson plan to me with the time that you will be
teaching the lesson.
The vice principal or myself will walk through the classroom while the lesson is
being taught to make an informal observation
Remember this is meant to be a tool to help enhance our quality of instruction
and something that will help us all gain different tools.
Too help me as a presenter, please complete the evaluation I am passing out
before you leave today, on this presentation and what you have gained from it.
Now go out and do what you do best.. “Inspire young minds!”
 References
“ Gagné’s 9 Events of Instruction – A Time Tested Way to Improve Teaching,” by Ullah, Rehman, and Bibi, from Pakistan
Armed Forces Medical Journal (2015).

https://www.understood.org/articles/en/differentiated-instruction-what-you-need-to-know

https://resilienteducator.com/classroom-resources/examples-of-differentiated-instruction/

Keller, J. M. (2009). Motivational design for learning and performance: The ARCS model approach. Springer Science & Business Media.

https://www.learning-theories.com/kellers-arcs-model-of-motivational-design.html

Felicia A. Dixon, Nina Yssel, John M. McConnell and Travis Hardin; Differentiated Instruction, Professional Development, and Teacher

Efficacy; Journal for the Education of the Gifted; June 1, 2014.