Tag: Student Engagement

One of the best ways to engage all students in your classroom is to give students an easy (and even anonymous) way to ask questions.

Student-centered teaching is teaching designed for the student. Done well, it can disarm some of the more intimidating parts of academia.

I am responsible for everyone and thing in this class and therefore at times what I say and do may confuse you or even seem unfair or wrong.

If you want a child to give up, constantly emphasize their shortcomings and let them know you're doing so for their own good.

Killing a learner's natural curiosity doesn't happen overnight. It can take as long as 12 years, and in some rare cases even that isn't long enough.

Ambition precedes curiosity. Without wanting to advance, learn, change, or grow, curiosity is simply a biological and neurological reaction to stimulus.

Tone affects how students see themselves and their role in the learning process. The words you use when interacting with students can have a lasting impact.

How can you create a classroom that works in a way the brain 'likes' to learn?

To use the Gradual Release of Responsibility model, students need to see others using it and who better to model it but you?

The first level of curiosity and engagement is when students are primarily concerned with procedural knowledge: What they're supposed to do and how.

Intrinsic motivation is defined as the doing of an activity for its inherent satisfaction rather than for some separable consequence.

Students Aren't Products: How We Think About Education by Terry Heick This post has been updated and republished from a previous version Now almost two decades into the 21st-century, we ...

8 Of Our Most Popular Articles About Student Engagement by TeachThought Staff Student engagement is often sought and sometimes achieved but difficult to sustain. There are a variety of reasons why ...

15 Examples of Student-Centered Teaching by Terry Heick 15 Examples of Student-Centered Teaching--And 15 That Are Not So Much Student-centered teaching is simply the process of teaching with student needs ...

A Comprehensive Gamification Framework For Human Motivation by Terry Heick When researching student motivation and gamification a few years ago, I came across the most comprehensive gamification framework I've ever seen. ...

Teaching Is Establishing The Need To Know by Terry Heick Ed note: This has been updated from a 2014 post by the author The above image comes from a presentation ...

It was already clear to me that students want to 'do well in school' for different reasons but now I could see a fuller continuum of student engagement.

50 Things You Can Say To Encourage A Child by TeachThought Staff There are many ways to encourage a child, but for students of any age, honest, authentic, and persistent ...