[PDF] Optimal Learning Environments To Promote Student Engagement eBook

Author : David J. Shernoff
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 382 pages
File Size : 46,48 MB
Release : 2013-05-29
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 1461470897

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Optimal Learning Environments to Promote Student Engagement analyzes the psychological, social, and academic phenomena comprising engagement, framing it as critical to learning and development. Drawing on positive psychology, flow studies, and theories of motivation, the book conceptualizes engagement as a learning experience, explaining how it occurs (or not) and how schools can adapt to maximize it among adolescents. Examples of empirically supported environments promoting engagement are provided, representing alternative high schools, Montessori schools, and extracurricular programs. The book identifies key innovations including community-school partnerships, technology-supported learning, and the potential for engaging learning opportunities during an expanded school day. Among the topics covered: Engagement as a primary framework for understanding educational and motivational outcomes. Measuring the malleability, complexity, multidimensionality, and sources of engagement. The relationship between engagement and achievement. Supporting and challenging: the instructor’s role in promoting engagement. Engagement within and beyond core academic subjects. Technological innovations on the engagement horizon. Optimal Learning Environments to Promote Student Engagement is an essential resource for researchers, professionals, and graduate students in child and school psychology; social work; educational psychology; positive psychology; family studies; and teaching/teacher education.

Author : Robert J. Marzano
Publisher : Solution Tree Press
Page : 448 pages
File Size : 44,89 MB
Release : 2010-03-21
Category : Education
ISBN : 1935543121

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Student engagement happens as a result of a teacher’s careful planning and execution of specific strategies. This self-study text provides in-depth understanding of how to generate high levels of student attention and engagement. Using the suggestions in this book, every teacher can create a classroom environment where engagement is the norm, not the exception.

Author : Heather Wolpert-Gawron
Publisher : Corwin Press
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 28,31 MB
Release : 2017-10-04
Category : Education
ISBN : 1506363296

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Based on over 1000 nationwide student surveys, these 10 deep engagement strategies help you implement achievement-based cooperative learning. Includes video and a survey sample.

Author : Kathryn Fishman-Weaver
Publisher : Solution Tree Press
Page : 202 pages
File Size : 13,86 MB
Release : 2022-06-14
Category : Education
ISBN : 1954631200

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Reimagine your school community. This practical guidebook will help you shift your mindset of online and blended learning from “backup plan” to unprecedented opportunity for rich connections and high-level learning. New and veteran teachers alike will gain insight on how to build in-person and online relationships with students and coworkers to achieve a learning community that supports social-emotional learning, equitable and inclusive instruction, and academic success. Educators of hybrid learning environments will: Understand why relationship-building is fundamental to student success and gain best practices for establishing this foundation Discover new blended, online, and in-person strategies for strengthening connections with your diverse students Gain strategies for offering instruction that is affirming, representative of our diverse world, and rooted in equity Be empowered to think critically about and to change systems currently in place that limit students’ ability to connect and thrive Choose strategies that fit your teaching style from the myriad of vibrant experiences contributed by educators around the world Contents: Preface: Our Journeys to Blended Education Introduction: People-Centered Approaches to Teaching Part I: Reimagining the Online Classroom Chapter 1: Reimagining School as a Global Community Project Chapter 2: Cultivating Strengths-Based Approaches for Inclusion, Support, and Counseling Chapter 3: Fostering Relationships Through Connection-Based Feedback Part II: Inclusive Practices: Diversity and Equity in the Online Classroom Chapter 4: Centering Student Stories Chapter 5: Honoring Multilingual and Multicultural Learners Chapter 6: Accelerating Opportunities for Gifted and Talented Students Epilogue Appendix Glossary References and Resources Index

Author : Carol C. Kuhlthau
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 203 pages
File Size : 48,23 MB
Release : 2012-06-06
Category : Education
ISBN : 1610690109

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Today's students need to be fully prepared for successful learning and living in the information age. This book provides a practical, flexible framework for designing Guided Inquiry that helps achieve that goal. Guided Inquiry prepares today's learners for an uncertain future by providing the education that enables them to make meaning of myriad sources of information in a rapidly evolving world. The companion book, Guided Inquiry: Learning in the 21st Century, explains what Guided Inquiry is and why it is now essential now. This book, Guided Inquiry Design: A Framework for Inquiry in Your School, explains how to do it. The first three chapters provide an overview of the Guided Inquiry design framework, identify the eight phases of the Guided Inquiry process, summarize the research that grounds Guided Inquiry, and describe the five tools of inquiry that are essential to implementation. The following chapters detail the eight phases in the Guided Inquiry design process, providing examples at all levels from pre-K through 12th grade and concluding with recommendations for building Guided Inquiry in your school. The book is for pre-K–12 teachers, school librarians, and principals who are interested in and actively designing an inquiry approach to curricular learning that incorporates a wide range of resources from the library, the Internet, and the community. Staff of community resources, museum educators, and public librarians will also find the book useful for achieving student learning goals.

Author : Jonathan C. Erwin
Publisher : Free Spirit Publishing
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 28,72 MB
Release : 2020-12-22
Category : Education
ISBN : 163198439X

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Inspiring and practical guide to create a safe and positive learning environment and help students master critical social and emotional skills. The SEL Solution provides everything teachers need to create a safe and positive learning environment. With dozens of fun and easy-to-do lessons and activities, educators have a clear path to integrate SEL lessons into social studies and language arts curriculum as well as throughout the school day. Additional sections for SEL directors and school leaders offer a blueprint for building a school-wide community that: helps students and staff master critical social and emotional skills, like self-awareness, the ability to focus, self-control, self-regulation, the ability to empathize, active listening, and cooperation engages everyone—kids and adults—in effective, compassionate behavior management strategies increases student success For use by teachers, counselors, coaches, principals, and other educators, the strategies in The SEL Solution provide a plan for engaging the whole school community in identifying, celebrating, and sustaining its positive values.Digital content includescustomizable forms from the book and a PDF presentation for professional development.

Author : Michael J. Furlong
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 531 pages
File Size : 43,71 MB
Release : 2014-02-03
Category : Education
ISBN : 1136258396

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Understanding the factors that encourage young people to become active agents in their own learning is critical. Positive psychology is one lens that can be used to investigate the factors that facilitate a student’s sense of agency and active school engagement. In the second edition of this groundbreaking handbook, the editors draw together the latest work on the field, identifying major issues and providing a wealth of descriptive knowledge from renowned contributors. Major topics include: the ways that positive emotions, traits, and institutions promote school achievement and healthy social and emotional development; how specific positive-psychological constructs relate to students and schools and support the delivery of school-based services; and the application of positive psychology to educational policy making. With thirteen new chapters, this edition provides a long-needed centerpiece around which the field can continue to grow, incorporating a new focus on international applications of the field.

Author : Charles Wankel
Publisher : Emerald Group Publishing
Page : 434 pages
File Size : 26,82 MB
Release : 2013-04-02
Category : Education
ISBN : 1781905150

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Web 2.0 and blended learning technologies are reshaping and reframing the practice of teaching and learning in higher education. This volume critically examines new research on how e-learning technologies are being used in higher education to increase learner engagement and retention.

Author : Douglas Fisher
Publisher : Corwin Press
Page : 138 pages
File Size : 43,48 MB
Release : 2017-08-19
Category : Education
ISBN : 1506375715

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Every teacher wants engaged students. No student wants to be bored. So why isn’t every classroom teeming with discussion and purposeful activity centered on the day’s learning expectations? Consistently finding a rhythm—where students progress through relevant and challenging content—isn’t easy. But not only is it possible, it can also seem effortless when teachers have the right design for genuinely engaging students. Classroom dynamics are inherently complex, as multifaceted as the personalities in the room, so where should a teacher begin? Engagement by Design gives you a framework for making daily improvements and highlights the opportunities that will bring the greatest benefit in the least amount of time. You’ll learn about relationships, clarity, and challenge, including How getting to know each student a little better can fundamentally change the classroom dynamics—and how to do that What it means to be an "intentionally inviting" teacher, and how it gives you an advantage in creating an environment conducive to learning How to bring more clarity to key aspects of your work—and how it can reap substantial rewards for you and your students How opening the culture to student voice—listening to students—is linked to academic motivation, and how to use it to shape your day-to-day planning The best ways to increase learning for your students, boosting the proportional value of their school year Understanding engagement—and actively pursuing it—can make all the difference between forging a real connection with students and having a classroom that’s simply going through the motions. Engagement by Design puts you in control of managing your classroom’s success and increasing student learning, one motivated student at a time.

Author : Natalie Wexler
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 354 pages
File Size : 34,85 MB
Release : 2020-08-04
Category : Education
ISBN : 0735213569

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The untold story of the root cause of America's education crisis--and the seemingly endless cycle of multigenerational poverty. It was only after years within the education reform movement that Natalie Wexler stumbled across a hidden explanation for our country's frustrating lack of progress when it comes to providing every child with a quality education. The problem wasn't one of the usual scapegoats: lazy teachers, shoddy facilities, lack of accountability. It was something no one was talking about: the elementary school curriculum's intense focus on decontextualized reading comprehension "skills" at the expense of actual knowledge. In the tradition of Dale Russakoff's The Prize and Dana Goldstein's The Teacher Wars, Wexler brings together history, research, and compelling characters to pull back the curtain on this fundamental flaw in our education system--one that fellow reformers, journalists, and policymakers have long overlooked, and of which the general public, including many parents, remains unaware. But The Knowledge Gap isn't just a story of what schools have gotten so wrong--it also follows innovative educators who are in the process of shedding their deeply ingrained habits, and describes the rewards that have come along: students who are not only excited to learn but are also acquiring the knowledge and vocabulary that will enable them to succeed. If we truly want to fix our education system and unlock the potential of our neediest children, we have no choice but to pay attention.