Student Engagement: Resource Roundup

A SPECIAL BLOG SERIES ON STUDENT ENGAGEMENT PRESENTED BY

Resources by Topic:

• Tips and Strategies for Keeping Students Engaged
• Engagement Through Projects
• Engagement Through Technology
• Engagement Through Social and Emotional Learning
• Additional Resources on the Web

Tips and Strategies for Keeping Students Engaged

• Ten Steps to Better Student Engagement by Tristan de Frondeville (2009)

  How to use project-based learning teaching strategies everyday to improve your everyday classroom experience.

• Ten Tips for Engaging Underperforming Students (2011)

  Guided by research, educators at Cochrane Collegiate have homed in on ten top teaching methods. You can also watch a video about engaging students from this school.

• Thinking Big About Engagement (2011)

  Even the smallest things, like the living cell, become big enough to grasp in Rob Olazagasti's middle school science class.

• How to Keep Kids Engaged in Class by Tristan de Frondeville (2009)

  Ten tactics and activity ideas to increase classroom participation and get students back on track.

• Ten Simple Strategies for Re-engaging Students by Andrew Marcinek (2010)

  Blogger Andrew Marcinek shares some ideas for jump-starting a tired classroom

• Ten Tips for Classroom Management Guide (2011)

  In our downloadable PDF classroom guide, learn how to improve student engagement and build a positive climate for learning and discipline for grades K-12.

• For more ideas, check out our two resident bloggers who focus on student engagement: educational consultant and online teacher Rebecca Alber and former administrator Ben Johnson.

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Engagement Through Projects

• Twenty Ideas for Engaging Projects by Suzie Boss (2011)

  Twenty ideas for getting engaging projects going in your classroom.

• Integrating Art and Politics to Improve High School Student Engagement (2011)

  Two teachers at Central York High School in York, PA, share their strategies for creating successful and engaging integrated studies projects.

• Mathematics Education: A Way Forward by David Wees (2011)

  To engage students with math, blogger David Wees suggests putting relevancy at the center of the curriculum rather than computations.

• Science Inquiry Carnival: Inquiry-Based Projects for the Classroom by Eric Brunsell (2010)

  STEM blogger Eric Brunsell shares a large variety of inquiry-based projects to engage students.

• Find more Edutopia content on this topic on our Project-Based Learning Core Strategy page.

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Engagement Through Technology

• A Day in the Life of a Connected Classroom by Andrew Marcinek (2011)

  Andrew Marcinek uses Twitter, Googledocs and a variety of other tools to connect and engage his classroom for a lesson in information fluency.

• Differentiated Instruction: Getting Personal with Technology (2010)

  How a South Carolina elementary school has used computers to engage students in a learning process calibrated to their individual needs and abilities.

• Edutopia Webinar: Engaging the Digital Generation (2009)

  In this recorded webinar from Edutopia's Digital Generation Project, innovative educators shared practical tools and strategies for engaging the digital learner.

• Wii Love Learning: Using Gaming Technology to Engage Students by Laila Weir (2008)

  How to put today's hottest game console to educational use.

• Find more Edutopia content on this topic on our Technology Integration Core Strategy page.

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Engagement Through Social and Emotional Learning

• How to Bring Service Learning to Your School by Maurice Elias (2009)

  Students who engage in educational community service have the opportunity to help others and to grow academically, emotionally, and socially.

• How to Use Service Learning to Engage Kids by Lisa Morehouse (2009)

  Six strategies for starting meaningful community-service projects.

• Kids Feel the Power of Poetry in Performance by Grace Rubenstein (2009)

  Through slam poetry, students reach new heights in literacy and in life.

• Emotional Engagement in Education: Should Teachers Care About Student Apathy? by Jim Moulton (2008)

  Former Edutopia blogger Jim Moulton shares advice for creating projects that involve students in the real world and put learning into context.

• Find more Edutopia content on this topic on our Social and Emotional Learning Core Strategy page.

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