Active learning to increase student engagement in language arts
Active learning to increase student engagement in language arts

Author: Sara Baney

Publisher:

Published: 2018

Total Pages: 50

ISBN-13:

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

Research shows a positive relationship between student engagement and student achievement. So, to increase academic achievement in English Language Arts (ELA), student engagement also needs to increase. This can be accomplished through active learning opportunities in the classroom. These opportunities can be related to active learning classroom environment with flexible seating and accessible learning materials. Also, active learning opportunities can be achieved through student collaboration and project-based learning. By using these strategies in active learning, it is anticipated that students will be motivated and engaged in the classroom; therefore, they should achieve greater academic gains. To that end this project provides an example of a seating arrangement for an active classroom environment including the grouping of students and a rubric for group discussions. In addition, lesson and unit plans are provided for a flipped classroom approach, project based learning activity, and a team based learning presentation. All activities and literature discussed in the project promote active learning opportunities.

Just Ask Us
Just Ask Us

Author: Heather Wolpert-Gawron

Publisher: Corwin Press

Published: 2017-10-04

Total Pages: 257

ISBN-13: 1506363296

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

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.

The World Language Teacher's Guide to Active Learning
The World Language Teacher's Guide to Active Learning

Author: Deborah Blaz

Publisher: Taylor & Francis

Published: 2022-09-30

Total Pages: 243

ISBN-13: 1000649245

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

Enhance your students’ success and improve the likelihood of retention with the easy-to-implement activities and strategies in this book! Bestselling author Deborah Blaz shows how to create a classroom in which students can actively experience and explore a world language. The new edition features updates in every chapter and incorporates the latest ACTFL standards, more information on teaching with authentic resources, a new chapter on teaching with technology, and additional resources for personalized learning. It is organized to allow you to easily find and pull activities you want to use in your classroom the very next day. You’ll learn how to... mix up your repertoire of activities, games, and exercises to keep students engaged; introduce students to the culture of the language you teach by hosting parties and celebrations; overcome some of the biggest obstacles in the path to fluency, including verb conjugation, using object pronouns, and the subjunctive mood; customize your teaching strategies to accommodate a broader range of talents, skills, and intelligences; implement new assessment strategies to improve verbal skills and reading comprehension; and more! Bonus: Downloadable versions of some of the resources in this book are available on the Routledge website at www.routledge.com/9781032258294 so you can print and distribute them for immediate classroom use.

How Students Learn
How Students Learn

Author: National Research Council

Publisher: National Academies Press

Published: 2005-01-23

Total Pages: 633

ISBN-13: 0309074339

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

How do you get a fourth-grader excited about history? How do you even begin to persuade high school students that mathematical functions are relevant to their everyday lives? In this volume, practical questions that confront every classroom teacher are addressed using the latest exciting research on cognition, teaching, and learning. How Students Learn: History, Mathematics, and Science in the Classroom builds on the discoveries detailed in the bestselling How People Learn. Now, these findings are presented in a way that teachers can use immediately, to revitalize their work in the classroom for even greater effectiveness. Organized for utility, the book explores how the principles of learning can be applied in teaching history, science, and math topics at three levels: elementary, middle, and high school. Leading educators explain in detail how they developed successful curricula and teaching approaches, presenting strategies that serve as models for curriculum development and classroom instruction. Their recounting of personal teaching experiences lends strength and warmth to this volume. The book explores the importance of balancing students' knowledge of historical fact against their understanding of concepts, such as change and cause, and their skills in assessing historical accounts. It discusses how to build straightforward science experiments into true understanding of scientific principles. And it shows how to overcome the difficulties in teaching math to generate real insight and reasoning in math students. It also features illustrated suggestions for classroom activities. How Students Learn offers a highly useful blend of principle and practice. It will be important not only to teachers, administrators, curriculum designers, and teacher educators, but also to parents and the larger community concerned about children's education.

Active Learning
Active Learning

Author: Patricia Hollingsworth

Publisher: Crown House Publishing

Published: 2006-01-01

Total Pages: 195

ISBN-13: 9781904424598

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

Provides a guide to creative ideas and activities for creating a desire to learn in students, and discusses ways to increase student engagement and enjoyment in the learning process.

Language Arts Lessons for Active Learning, Grades 3-8
Language Arts Lessons for Active Learning, Grades 3-8

Author: Sharon M. Fennessey

Publisher: Drama

Published: 2008

Total Pages: 148

ISBN-13:

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

Every teacher knows: increasing student engagement and participation increases student achievement. But students are different, learn differently, and have unique strengths and needs. Language Arts Lessons for Active Learning, Grades 3 - 8 supports classroomwide success with a variety of lessons that get every student involved and tap a wide range of learning styles. Ideal for any language arts classroom, and particularly those with English learners, special learners, and gifted/talented students, Language Arts Lessons for Active Learning, Grades 3 - 8 utilizes students' diverse backgrounds and talents to target essential language arts skills, including: reading fluency and expression comprehension vocabulary spelling punctuation oral language and speaking skills listening comprehension reading fiction and nonfiction writing fiction and nonfiction. Language Arts Lessons for Active Learning, Grades 3 - 8 gets students involved and supports energetic, motivated learning through well-known and widely used strategies, such as: games read-alouds Readers' Theatre choral reading debating public speaking interviews writing-in-role pantomime improvisation. Teacher-tried and classroom-proven, Language Arts Lessons for Active Learning, Grades 3 - 8 provides a clear lesson format that states its focus as well as step-by-step instructions. In addition, its Teacher-to-Teacher sections offer helpful suggestions for implementation based on the experience of practicing teachers in upper-elementary and middle-level classrooms. Most students learn best by doing, and the practical, easy-to-follow lessons in Language Arts Lessons for Active Learning, Grades 3 - 8 immerse students in language arts like no other book has. Use it and help all students meet language arts standards by accommodating a wide variety of learning styles and abilities through authentic acts of reading, writing, speaking, and listening.

Student Engagement and Achievement in American Secondary Schools
Student Engagement and Achievement in American Secondary Schools

Author: Fred M. Newmann

Publisher:

Published: 1992

Total Pages: 231

ISBN-13: 9780807731826

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

In 1985 the federal government funded two 5-year centres to conduct research on effective schools. Student Engagement and Achievement in American Secondary Schools presents the findings of one of these studies, as carried out by the National Center of Effective Secondary Schools located at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Editor Fred M. Newmann and the other contributors to this study examine existing research, detail their own findings, and propose concrete strategies for improving students' achievement in secondary schools.

Student Engagement in the Language Classroom
Student Engagement in the Language Classroom

Author: Phil Hiver

Publisher: Multilingual Matters

Published: 2020-12-02

Total Pages: 263

ISBN-13: 1788923626

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

This book defines engagement for the field of language learning and contextualizes it within existing work on the psychology of language learning and teaching. Chapters address broad substantive questions concerned with what engagement is or looks like, and how it can be theorized for the language classroom; methodological questions related to the design, measurement and analysis of engagement in language classrooms and beyond; as well as applied issues examining its antecedents, factors inhibiting and enhancing it, and conditions fostering the re-engagement of language learners who have become disengaged. Through a mix of conceptual and empirical chapters, the book explores similarities and differences between motivation and engagement and addresses questions of whether, how and why learners actually do exert effort, allocate attention, participate and become involved in tangible language learning and use. It will serve as an authoritative benchmark for future theoretical and empirical research into engagement within the classroom and beyond, and will be of interest to anyone wishing to understand the unique insights and contributions the topic of engagement can make to language learning and teaching.

20 Strategies for Increasing Student Engagement
20 Strategies for Increasing Student Engagement

Author: William N. Bender

Publisher:

Published: 2017-05

Total Pages: 180

ISBN-13: 9781941112793

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

When students are meaningfully involved and emotionally invested in content, they learn more and perform better. In 20 Strategies for Increasing Student Engagement, Dr. William N. Bender provides practical examples, guidelines, and the research behind his teaching tips to help educators focus on specific strategies for engaging students in the classroom.

Student Engagement Techniques
Student Engagement Techniques

Author: Elizabeth F. Barkley

Publisher: John Wiley & Sons

Published: 2009-10-06

Total Pages: 416

ISBN-13: 0470549785

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

Keeping students involved, motivated, and actively learning is challenging educators across the country,yet good advice on how to accomplish this has not been readily available. Student Engagement Techniques is a comprehensive resource that offers college teachers a dynamic model for engaging students and includes over one hundred tips, strategies, and techniques that have been proven to help teachers from a wide variety of disciplines and institutions motivate and connect with their students. The ready-to-use format shows how to apply each of the book's techniques in the classroom and includes purpose, preparation, procedures, examples, online implementation, variations and extensions, observations and advice, and key resources. "Given the current and welcome surge of interest in improving student learning and success, this guide is a timely and important tool, sharply focused on practical strategies that can really matter." ?Kay McClenney, director, Center for Community College Student Engagement, Community College Leadership Program, the University of Texas at Austin "This book is a 'must' for every new faculty orientation program; it not only emphasizes the importance of concentrating on what students learn but provides clear steps to prepare and execute an engagement technique. Faculty looking for ideas to heighten student engagement in their courses will find usefultechniques that can be adopted, adapted, extended, or modified." ?Bob Smallwood, cocreator of CLASSE (Classroom Survey of Student Engagement) and assistant to the provost for assessment, Office of Institutional Effectiveness, University of Alabama "Elizabeth Barkley's encyclopedia of active learning techniques (here called SETs) combines both a solid discussion of the research on learning that supports the concept of engagement and real-life examples of these approaches to teaching in action." ?James Rhem, executive editor, The National Teaching & Learning Forum