Schlechty's Instructional Design Qualities
Schlechty Design Qualities are those qualities that teachers use to create lesson plans, thus designing engagement for students. This engagement can come in the form of student-student, student-teacher, and student-content. Research has proven that student classroom engagement is directly linked to the ability to learn the skills and knowledge necessary to be successful. Phillip Schlechty has a proven method that is broken down into two parts: Design Qualities of Context and Design Qualities of Choice. The following two Engagement Qualities are taken from Engaging Students: the Next level of Working on the Work by Phillip Schlechty.
Design Qualities of Context are those aspects of tasks and activities that are ubiquitous and will affect student engagement even when the teacher does not intentionally take them into account.
Design Qualities of Choice are qualities that the teacher can choose to include or omit, depending on the teacher's judgement regarding the needs and interests of students.