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Student engagement techniques : a handbook for college faculty / Elizabeth F. Barkley.

Summary:

From the Publisher: 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.

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  • ISBN: 9780470281918 (pbk.)
  • ISBN: 047028191X (pbk.)
  • Physical Description: xv, 398 pages : illustrations ; 28 cm.
  • Edition: 1st ed.
  • Publisher: San Francisco : Jossey-Bass/a Wiley Imprint, c2010.

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 379-389) and index.
Formatted Contents Note:
Pt. 1. A conceptual framework for understanding student engagement -- What does student engagement mean? -- Engagement and motivation -- Engagement and active learning -- Promoting synergy between motivation and active learning -- Additional facets to consider -- From theory to practice: teachers talk about student engagement -- Pt. 2. Tips and strategies (T/S) -- Tips and strategies for fostering motivation -- Tips and strategies for promoting active learning -- Tips and strategies for building community -- Tips and strategies for ensuring students are appropriately challenged -- Tips and strategies to promote holistic learning -- Pt. 3. Student engagement techniques (SETS) -- Knowledge, skills, recall, and understanding -- Analysis and critical thinking -- Synthesis and creative thinking -- Problem solving -- Application and performance -- Attitudes and values -- Self-awareness as learners -- Learning and study skills.
Subject: Academic achievement > United States.
Classroom environment > United States.
College teaching > United States.
Motivation in education > United States.

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  • 4 of 4 copies available at Camosun College Library.

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