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Assessment Description

Crucial elements of classroom management are developing strategies to engage students, promoting individual and group motivation, and encouraging positive behaviors in peer-to-peer interactions. For a future teacher, developing a toolkit of effective engagement and classroom management strategies is important. Motivation does not look the same for all students. Establishing positive relationships with students will help educators identify student motivators that support active engagement and performance growth.

This assignment will help inform the second section of your classroom management plan, “Engagement and Motivation.

Part 1: Importance of Engagement and Motivation in the Classroom

Using the topic Resources and your own research, in 250-500 words reflect on creating a classroom environment that engages and motivates students.
Include the following in your reflection:

• Why engagement strategies are important for fostering active learning, self-motivation, and positive social interaction among students of diverse backgrounds . Provide two examples of engagement strategies, including one for a physical and one for a digital learning environment.
• The importance of the teacher fostering positive relationships with students and how that can increase engagement and motivation. Provide two specific examples of how positive teacher-student relationships can be developed, including one for a physical and one for a digital learning environment.
• How intrinsic and extrinsic motivation can influence student performance.
• How engagement and motivation strategies can be used to support the diverse learning needs of students .

Part 2: Strategies to Increase Engagement and Motivation

Using a free digital tool (e.g., Padlet or Trello), create a digital toolkit of 7-10 strategies that foster active engagement in learning, promote self-motivation, establish positive relationships, and support positive social interactions. Ensure that a minimum of two strategies are appropriate for each grade band (K-2, 3-5, 6-8).

Include the following in your toolkit:

• A brief explanation of each strategy, appropriate grade bands for the strategy, and how they can be used to increase engagement and motivation in the classroom.
• One strategy that can be used to increase engagement for EL students and one strategy to increase engagement for students with disabilities.
• Two strategies that can be used in a digital learning environment.
• Two strategies that integrate a technology tool or resources, include the link to the tool or resource.

Support your reflection and strategies with a minimum of three scholarly resources. Be sure to include support for each strategy in the toolkit; however, the same resource can be used for multiple strategies.

Ensure that others can access and view your toolkit link prior to submitting the assignment.

Submit your reflection and a link to your digital toolkit in one document.

Note: This assignment may be added as an artifact to the teacher toolkit you created in ELM-211 or added once your ELM-211 teacher toolkit has been created.

While APA Style is not required for the body of this assignment, solid academic writing is expected, and documentation of sources should be presented using APA formatting guidelines, which can be found in the APA Style Guide, located in the S