10 Student Engagement Strategies That Empower Learners
One student engagement strategy is to offer diverse pathways through content–pathways students would have to ‘unlock’ to progress.
One student engagement strategy is to offer diverse pathways through content–pathways students would have to ‘unlock’ to progress.
Competency-based learning provides students clear feedback about specific competencies and skills gained over time.
The XP-Pen drawing tablets have a range of applications in physical, blended, or remote learning environments.
Good teachers seek engaged students. Great teachers–somehow, someway–find out what makes students click, and use it.
Gradual Release of Responsibility is a strategy characterized by a sequence of learning activities that shift responsibility to the student.
Education also withholds permanent markers of performance until the end of a semester to motivate students and demonstrate control.
Improvement in teaching can be reduced to a matter of prioritization, practice, reflection and refinement.
Teaching is easy. Teaching well is very, very hard to do day in and day out, especially in the schools that need it most.
Amazon has 800-word reviews on exercise machines, but the best we can do to evaluate the quality of learning is to ‘hear’ a school is ‘good.’
From curriculum maps and report cards to metacognition & field trips, here are some examples of what technology can replace in the classroom.
What happens when, after demonstrating mastery of every standard we can think of, students are exceptional at absolutely nothing?
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Being at a conference like SXSWEdu can be overwhelming–a race to attend, listen to and engage with as many education-minded humans as possible.
What will students learn? The final step in the process to plan your STEAM program is to actually develop the curriculum.