student voice
Do You Know Me? The Voice of a Disgruntled Student in a Boring Class
These heartfelt words from Student X will shake you to your teaching core, motivate you to ex-out any negativity and constantly inspire you to bring your “A” game to the classroom.
Want Student Engagement? Stage It and Set the Hook
When I was a young adolescent, bass fishing excursions with my father were either the longest and most boring six hours of pointless casting or a crank-tastic time tied together by a lure, line, and learned lessons.
Elements of High Agency School Environments
A successful school-based learning environment includes a culture of continual improvement that fosters agency and intrinsically motivated professional development among teachers, while supporting innovation and experimentation.
Infographic | Why do Human Beings Engage?
Human beings engage in a task for many different reasons. Here are 26 instincts that motivate a commitment of time and energy.
Engagement Templates: 6 Ways to Structure Learning Experiences
Teachers might call these six lesson plan templates, but with the expanding array of professional and informal learning this is an attempt to build a broader framework applicable to impact games, meetings, conference sessions, open resources, and professional development.
Creating Intrinsic Value, Interest and the Desire to Engage in Students
By: Nick Bain. Students need opportunities to discover value and interest in creative ways. Educators can support in this by being a learning facilitator not a learning instructor.
Student Motivation Matters: 25 Tips and Strategies
A new report from the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching reviews what we know about student motivation. It's a great summary of academic research on motivation, but it stops short of illuminating the path forward.
10 Powerful Project-Based Learning Engagement Strategies
Student engagement is key to motivation, persistence, and deeper learning. In addition to our recently featured 22 instincts that motivate a commitment of time and energy, here's 10 strategies to promote powerful project-based learning experiences.
Why Do Human Beings Engage? 26 Impulses That Sustain Engagement
Each stimuli is unique for each person and each person responds based on a unique motivational profile. Nevertheless it’s worth attempting to identify the root motivations for engagement to become more intentional about creating sticky experiences. Here are 26 instincts that motivate a commitment of time and energy
Student Engagement’s Three Variables: Emotion, Behavior, Cognition
By: Ace Parsi. Student engagement represents the capacity and inclination for students to take ownership of their past, present, and future educational experiences by enlisting their cognitive, behavioral, and emotional investment in learning.