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• Title: Keeping Us Engaged
• Author : Christine Harrington
• Release Date : January 29, 2021
• Genre: Education,Books,Professional & Technical,
• Pages : * pages
• Size : 4132 KB

Description

This book offers faculty practical strategies to engage students that are grounded in research and endorsed by students themselves.  Through student stories, a signature feature of this book, readers will discover why professor actions result in changed attitudes, stronger connections to others and the course material, and increased learning.

Structured to cover the key moments and opportunities to increase student engagement, Christine Harrington covers the all-important first day of class where first impressions can determine students’ attitudes for the duration of the course, through to insights for rethinking assignments and enlivening teaching strategies, to ways of providing feedback that build students’ confidence and spur them to greater immersion in their studies, providing the underlying rationale for the strategies she presents. The student narratives not only validate these practices, offering their perspectives as learners, but constitute a trove of ideas and practices that readers will be inspired to adapt for their particular needs.

Conscious of the changing demographics of today’s undergraduate and graduate students – racially more diverse, older, and many employed – Harrington highlights the need to engage all students and shares numerous strategies on how to do so. While many of the ideas presented were used by faculty teaching face to face classes, a number were developed by faculty teaching online, and the majority can be adapted to virtually any teaching environment. 

Based on student-centered active learning principles, structured to allow readers to quickly identify practices that they may need in particular instances or to infuse in a course as a whole, and presented without jargon, this book is a springboard for all faculty looking for ideas that will engage their students at any level and in any course.

Foreword

Introduction



PART ONE: STARTING POSITVE: THE FIRST DAY OF CLASS AND THE SYLLABUS

1) Engaging Students on the First Day of Class

2) Creating a Sense of Belonging

3) Generating Excitement

4) Developing Knowledge and Skills

5) Using the Syllabus as an Engagement Tool

6) Faculty Reflection Questions


PART TWO: POWER OF RELATIONSHIPS

7) Connecting with Students During Class

8) Interacting with Students Outside of Class

9) Assisting Students Struggling with Personal Challenges

10) Serving as Career Mentors

11) Helping Students Build a Professional Network

12) Faculty Reflection Questions


PART THREE: TEACHING STRATEGIES

13) Making it Personal

14) Using Demonstrations

15) Using Collaborative Activities

16) Discussions

17) Group Projects

18) Faculty Reflection Questions


PART FOUR: MEANINGFUL ASSIGNMENTS

19) Building Foundational Knowledge

20) Using Authentic Assignments to Promote Learning

21) Pushing Students Outside their Comfort Zone

22) Fostering Creativity

23) Service Learning

24) Faculty Reflection Questions


PART FIVE: FEEDBACK

25) Formative Assessment Opportunities

26) Incorporating Peer Feedback Opportunities

27) Giving Students Opportunities to Revise

28) Providing Feedback to High-Achieving Students

29) Faculty Reflection Questions


About the Author

Index

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