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How can we shatter these myths, providing better feedback while modeling a life worth living? Here are the myths phrased as four “shoulds”: Feedback should be immediate Feedback should come from the teacher alone Feedback should be individualized Feedback should include a grade

Students who strongly agree that they have at least one teacher who makes them "feel excited about the future" and that their school is "committed to building the strengths of each student" are 30 times more likely than students who strongly disagree with those statements to show other signs of engagement in the classroom—a key predictor of academic success, according to a report released Wednesday by Gallup Education.

"Many, many, many teachers, principals and superintendents have known for literally decades that if we don't engage students to care about being in school, that's going to get in the way of learning," he said.

"One of the big problems with No Child Left Behind and even [the Common Core State Standards] is that we are only focused on students' cognitive learning,"

Interactive teaching methods significantly improved attendance and doubled both engagement and learning in a large physics class,

students in the interactive class were nearly twice as engaged as their counterparts in the traditional class

scored nearly twice as well in a test designed to determine their grasp of complex physics concepts (average score 74 per cent vs. 41 per cent, with random guessing producing a score of 23 per cent). Attendance in the interactive class also increased by 20 per cent during the experiment.