Student Engagement

Find ideas on student engagement, deeper inquiry, and project-based learning, whether you read on your own or in a book study group.

Electives give students avenues for choice and can function as vehicles for core content standards.

These tools and strategies can help introverts show what they know and participate in class in ways that are comfortable for them.

How a music program can fortify peer relationships and increase parent engagement and community involvement.

Students must be willing participants in their education, and we have a few ideas on how to help them feel motivated.

Two strategies for teaching students to be critical of messages they encounter in texts and other media and to voice their own views.

Weekly open-ended math tasks can pique students’ interest, leading them to take risks and develop a growth mindset.

A structured framework for engaging middle school students in planning out their own lines of inquiry.

After using whole-class novels that failed to engage students, a teacher finds the benefits of letting them choose what to read.

Giving students choices and the means to assess their progress fosters metacognition and independence.