Skip to main content

Home/ Diigo In Education/ Group items tagged engaging students

Rss Feed Group items tagged

Filter: All | Bookmarks | Topics Simple Middle
Patricia Hermes

Range of novel and creative instructional strategies - 81 views

serc.carleton.edu/...instructionalmethod.html

Instructional strategies Geoscience

shared by Patricia Hermes on 02 Dec 12 - No Cached
  • Patricia Hermes on 02 Dec 12
     
    Although this comes from the site "Teaching entry level Geoscience", it offers a wide variety of instructional approaches designed to engage students. The approaches can be [easily] adapted to just about any subject and the links will take you to some amazing resources.
Glenn Hervieux

"Lions, Tigers and Frozen Frogs: Using Video to Spark Classroom Conversation" - 54 views

www.weareteachers.com/...r's-take-on-academic-discourse

video discussions

shared by Glenn Hervieux on 24 Jan 15 - No Cached
  • Glenn Hervieux on 24 Jan 15
     
    Three strategies for using videos to engage students in conversation and inquiry
Sydney Lacey

Educational Leadership:Good Teaching in Action:The Best Teachers I Have Known - 47 views

www.ascd.org/...est-Teachers-I-Have-Known.aspx

education effective teaching teachers

shared by Sydney Lacey on 17 Jun 10 - Cached
  • Sydney Lacey on 17 Jun 10
     
    One of the joys of retirement is having the time to reflect on our profession. Looking back over the 37 years I spent as an educator-20 of them as a teacher and 17 as an administrator-and reflecting on my own schooling as well, I think of the many highly effective teachers I've known. Spanning all grade levels, they engaged students in learning to the point of excitement and kindled the desire to keep on learning. So what did these teachers have in common?
Daryl Bambic

Be the Change. Listen. Follow-up » Edurati Review - 42 views

eduratireview.com/...be-the-change-listen-follow-up

professional_development

shared by Daryl Bambic on 09 Jun 10 - Cached
  • 1. Be the change. Leaders of professional development seem to forget that they’re actually teaching, and that part of teaching is modeling the activity you hope to see adopted. A session devoted to equipping teachers to implement more collaborative learning that is presented via “death by PowerPoint” is an oxymoron, a term originating from a Greek word appropriately meaning “pointedly foolish.” As one teacher recently expressed it, “Why does the worst teaching often happen in sessions on how to improve teaching?” Why, indeed? Modeling is a powerful teaching technique. In addition to communicating that the suggested new approach promotes learning, demonstration taps into some of the brain’s natural learning systems: This may be because demonstration actually encourages the brain to engage. Specialized neurons known as mirror neurons make practicing “in the head” possible…When a teacher repeatedly performs a sequence of steps, her students’ mirror neurons may enable their own preliminary practice of the same steps. In other words, as a teacher demonstrates a skill, students mentally rehearse it.1
  • Though we’ve been invited to lead professional development, we do not have all the answers. Professional development involves merging new research findings with current personnel—i.e., bringing ideas and people together. One way I’ve tried to do more of this recently is to ask teachers if any of them have tried something similar to a new approach I’ve explained. If any have, I invite them to share their experience. This invites elaboration, a critical cognitive process for constructing understanding. If the teacher’s experience was positive, we discuss why the approach was successful. If the teacher’s experience was frustrating, we often find together the reason for it and develop a plan for structuring it better the next time. This give-and-take values everyone, respects the experience present in the session, and allows the leader to be a colleague rather than an aloof expert.
  • 2. Listen. I have a tendency to get preoccupied with my preparation and forget that I’ll actually have people in the professional development session. Not just people but colleagues!
  • ...1 more annotation...
  • 3. Follow up. I’ve written previously about the importance of coaching and the characteristics of an effective coach. A one-time information flood is ineffective, no matter how engaging the session’s leader may be. Teachers need support as they begin to implement new ideas, methods, and approaches. Note that support, not judgement, is needed. Showing up with an evaluation form is a certain way to kill any benefit professional development might yield. Teachers are learners, and we need the time and space to try, to reflect, to try again, to get helpful feedback, and to truly master implementation. We need the opportunity to learn. Coaching provides this opportunity, along with the encouragement and feedback necessary for success.
Danielle Hicks

The Innovative Educator: Engage Your Future Students Today with Flashforward - 101 views

theinnovativeeducator.blogspot.com/...uture-students-today-with.html

icebreaker popculture web20 flashforward resources

shared by Danielle Hicks on 02 Oct 09 - Cached
  • Danielle Hicks on 02 Oct 09
     
    Link for ideas to connect to TV show FlashForward
Wayne Holly

8 Ways Technology Is Improving Education - 75 views

mashable.com/...technology-in-education

shared by Wayne Holly on 24 Nov 10 - No Cached
  • Wayne Holly on 24 Nov 10
     
    Technology is helping teachers to expand beyond linear, text-based learning and to engage students who learn best in other ways. Its role in schools has evolved from a contained "computer class" into a versatile learning tool that could change how we demonstrate concepts, assign projects and assess progress.
Will Richardson

2009 Horizon Report » Key Trends - 0 views

wp.nmc.org/...trends

shared by Will Richardson on 26 Jan 09 - Cached
  • Increasingly, those who use technology in ways that expand their global connections are more likely to advance, while those who do not will find themselves on the sidelines.
    • Adrienne Michetti
      Adrienne Michetti on 26 Jan 09
       
      Does this spell things out for teachers who are not willing to embrace these technologies?
    • Will Richardson
      Will Richardson on 26 Jan 09
       
      I would love to see some research to support this. It's a nice soundbite, but what it is based on?
  • The notions of collective intelligence and mass amateurization are redefining scholarship as we grapple with issues of top-down control and grassroots scholarship.
    • Adrienne Michetti
      Adrienne Michetti on 26 Jan 09
       
      The community is changing the learning process.
  • opportunity for increased social interaction and civic engagement among this group. The success of game-based learning strategies owes to active participation and interaction being at the center of the experience, and signals that current educational methods are not engaging students enough.
    • Adrienne Michetti
      Adrienne Michetti on 26 Jan 09
       
      But the question is, how can these gaming communities offer more opportunities for LEARNING? I think currently, many of them exist for entertainment. A shift needs to happen.
  • ...3 more annotations...
  • visual literacy will become an increasingly important skill
  • Visual literacy must be formally taught,
    • Adrienne Michetti
      Adrienne Michetti on 26 Jan 09
       
      visual literacy IS formally taught in English language arts classrooms (it is one of the strands) AND in Art classes. Aren't all students taking these courses???
  • Increasingly, those who use technology in ways that expand their global connections are more likely to advance, while those who do not will find themselves on the sidelines.
  • Sandy Kennedy on 26 Jan 09
     
    Shared by Wes Fryer addresses gaming, colaboration, crowd wisdom, social interaction, etc
C CC

How to Keep Kids Engaged in Class | Edutopia - 0 views

www.edutopia.org/oom-student-participation-tips

shared by C CC on 27 Aug 09 - Cached
  • How to Keep Kids Engaged in Class When students let their minds drift off, they're losing valuable learning time. Here are ten smart ways to increase classroom participation.
Rachel Ernst

Seth's Blog: Learning from the MBA program - 0 views

sethgodin.typepad.com/...ning-from-the-mba-program.html

shared by Rachel Ernst on 05 Jun 09 - Cached
  • I taught for five to twenty hours a week, and very little of it was about the books. So, if concepts from books are easy, what’s hard?Doing it.Picking up the phone, making the plan, signing the deal. Pushing ‘publish.’ Announcing. Shipping.We spent a lot of time on this area. Every morning, each person came in prepared to push someone in the group to overcome the next hurdle. This is what growth looks like, and it was energizing to be part of.We didn’t do this at all at when I was at Stanford. We spent a lot of time reading irrelevant case studies and even more time building complex financial models. The thing is, you can now hire someone to build a complex financial model for you for $60 an hour. And a week’s worth of that is just about all the typical entrepreneur is going to need. The rest of the time, it’s about shipping, motivating, leading, connecting, envisioning and engaging. So that’s what we worked on.It amazes me that MBA students around the world aren’t up in arms. How can schools justify taking $100,000 in cash and teaching exactly the wrong stuff?
    • Rachel Ernst
      Rachel Ernst on 05 Jun 09
       
      How much of our instruction is truly relevant to students? How much engages their imagination, builds meaningful relationships and equips with skills to develop their own talents?
jodi tompkins

Tools for Reading, Writing, & Thinking - 82 views

www.greece.k12.ny.us/...index.htm

reading writing thinking graphicorganizers communicationarts

shared by jodi tompkins on 16 Dec 09 - Cached
  • jodi tompkins on 16 Dec 09
     
    Tools to help students engage in rigorous thinking, organize complex ideas, and scaffold their ineractions with texts. Not to be used simply as worksheets or activities for their own sake.
Paul Bogush

Five Ideas for Making a Purposeful and Professional Digital Footprint - 48 views

theinnovativeeducator.blogspot.com/...for-making-purposeful-and.html

digital footprint social networking digital citizenship

shared by Paul Bogush on 12 May 10 - Cached
  • Paul Bogush on 12 May 10
     
    Five ideas to enable educators to develop and model a purposeful and professional digital footprint.
    1-Model responsible footprinting with your own practices in blogging, commenting, social networking, and picture posting.
    2-If you have established a professional blog, share it widely and proudly such as placing it in your email signature (if your employer will let you) and as Jeff Utecht suggests include your blog url when you comment on others blogs and in other forums. This enables others to see best practices and is a great way to get the conversation started.
    3-Google yourself (aka ego surfing). If you have something posted online that you'd be uncomfortable having a current or future student, parent, colleague, or employer find, delete it (if you can) or request that it be deleted. There are ways an aggressive internet detective can still find this information, but most won't go through the trouble and the mere fact that you deleted it shows some level of responsibility.
    4-If you do have online personal information and/or interests you wouldn't want discovered, use an unidentifiable screen name/avatar. This means you may need to update your screen name/avatar in your existing online presence.
    5-Engage in the conversation and professionally comment, reply, and present online, onsite, and at conferences.
June Griffin

YouTube - ‪TeachingChannel's Channel‬‏ - 130 views

www.youtube.com/teachingchannel

shared by June Griffin on 26 May 11 - No Cached
  • June Griffin on 26 May 11
     
    Impressive teaching; Kajitani fully engages students by teaching them math concepts by showing their applicability and using music to aid memory.
trisha_poole

The 10 Best and Worst Ways Social Media Impacts Education - Edudemic - 102 views

edudemic.com/...social-media-education

onlineeducation learningdesign teaching&learning social media web2.0 socialmedia Facebook edtech education elearning online

shared by trisha_poole on 26 Jul 11 - No Cached
  • trisha_poole on 26 Jul 11
     
    Social networking communities are here to stay. Facebook has over 500 million users, while Twitter has over 200 million. That's not even counting blogs or YouTube video blogs. There's no doubt that students are actively engaged in online communities, but what kind of effects are these sites having and how can parents counteract the bad and bolster the positive?
Kelly Boushell

LIBERTY! - The American Revolution - 66 views

www.pbs.org/...index.html

social studies history

shared by Kelly Boushell on 30 Jul 11 - Cached
  • Kelly Boushell on 30 Jul 11
     
    The Liberty! Teacher's Guide is designed to fully engage students in the drama and rich educational information presented in the six-part PBS series LIBERTY! THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION.
xtreker15

Social media finds place in classroom - USATODAY.com - 3 views

www.usatoday.com/...-24-schools-social-media_n.htm

Social media classroom

shared by xtreker15 on 25 Jul 11 - No Cached
  • xtreker15 on 25 Jul 11
     
    Education needs to adapt. I applaud this principle for his efforts. I'm sure his students are slot more engaged.
Chris Betcher

What does the future of Maths teaching look like? - 2 views

www.learningteaching.net.au/?p=122

future maths teaching mathematics testing

shared by Chris Betcher on 08 Aug 11 - No Cached
  • Chris Betcher on 08 Aug 11
     
    If we are to re-engage students with Mathematics, I believe we need to be constantly and consistently striving toward tasks that are collaborative, problem-based and relevant. This does not mean that explicit teaching goes out the window.
Garth Holman

Quick Links For Middle School Teachers | Teachinghistory.org - 96 views

teachinghistory.org/quick-links-middle

history teaching resource primary

shared by Garth Holman on 09 Sep 11 - Cached
  • Garth Holman on 09 Sep 11
     
    Teaching History is a great tool to engage students in historical thinking. 
Steve Ransom

ReadWriteThink: Lesson Plan: Texting a Response to Lord of the Flies - 19 views

www.readwritethink.org/...lesson_view.asp

cellphone texting literacy languagearts lessonplans idea literature

shared by Steve Ransom on 14 Oct 09 - Cached
  • Steve Ransom on 14 Oct 09
     
    Students engage in a review of Lord of the Flies by looking at various ways the boys used communication while stranded on the island.
« First ‹ Previous 281 - 300 of 479 Next › Last »
Showing 20▼ items per page