Student Engagement Techniques : A Handbook for College Faculty

by Elizabeth F. Barkley ( ; )

• ISBN13: 9780470549773
• ISBN10: 0470549777
• Format: eBook
• Copyright: 2009-09-01
• Publisher: Jossey-Bass

Summary

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. "Given the current and welcome surge of interest in improving student learning and success, this guide is a timely and important tool, sharply focused on practical strategies that can really matter." Kay McClenney, director, Center for Community College Student Engagement, Community College Leadership Program, the University of Texas at Austin "This book is a 'must' for every new faculty orientation program; it not only emphasizes the importance of concentrating on what students learn but provides clear steps to prepare and execute an engagement technique. Faculty looking for ideas to heighten student engagement in their courses will find usefultechniques that can be adopted, adapted, extended, or modified." Bob Smallwood, cocreator of CLASSE (Classroom Survey of Student Engagement) and assistant to the provost for assessment, Office of Institutional Effectiveness, University of Alabama "Elizabeth Barkley's encyclopedia of active learning techniques (here called SETs) combines both a solid discussion of the research on learning that supports the concept of engagement and real-life examples of these approaches to teaching in action." James Rhem, executive editor, The National Teaching & Learning Forum

Table of Contents

Preface

The Author

A Conceptual Framework for Understanding Student Engagement

What Does Student Engagement Mean?

Student Engagement and Motivation

Student Engagement and Active Learning

Promoting Synergy Between Engagement and Active Learning

Additional Facets to Consider

From Theory to Practice: Teachers Talk About Student Engagement

Tips and Strategies

Tips and Strategies for Fostering Motivation

Expect engagement

Develop and display the qualities of engaging teachers

Use behaviorist-based strategies to reward learning rather than behavior

Use praise and criticism effectively

Attend to students' basic needs so that they can focus on the higher-level needs required for learning

Promote student autonomy

Teach things worth learning

Integrate goals, activities, and assessment

Craft engaging learning tasks

Incorporate competition appropriately

Expect students to succeed

Help students expect to succeed

Try to rebuild the confidence of discouraged and disengaged students

Tips and Strategies for Promoting Active Learning

Be clear on your learning goals

Clarify your role

Orient students to their new roles

Help students develop learning strategies

Activate prior learning

Teach in ways that promote effective transfer

Teach for retention

Limit and chunk information

Provide opportunities for guided practice and rehearsal

Organize lectures in ways that promote active learning

Use reverse or inverted classroom organization

Use rubrics to give learners frequent and useful feedback

Tips and Strategies for Building Community

Move away from an authoritarian role

Promote class civility

Create a physical or online course environment that supports community

Reduce anonymity: Learn students' names and help students learn each other's names

Use icebreakers to warm up the class

Use technology to extend or reinforce community

Be consciously inclusive

Subdivide large classes into smaller groupings

Involve all students in discussion

Use group work effectively

Revisit icebreaker kinds of activities later in the term

Celebrate community

Tips and Strategies for Ensuring Students Are Appropriately Challenged

Assess students' starting points

Monitor class pacing

Help students learn to self-assess

Differentiate course elements to meet individual student needs

Use scaffolding to provide assistance for complex learning

Tips and Strategies for Teaching for Holistic Learning

Pick up the pace to hold attention

Offer options for non-linear learning

Use principles of universal design

Incorporate games

Teach so that students use multiple processing modes

Incorporate multiple domains when identifying learning goals

Include learning activities that involve physical movement

Consider creating a "graphic syllabus"

Student Engagement Techniques (SETs)

Category I. Techniques to Engage Students in Learning Course-Related Knowledge and Skills

Knowledge, Skills, Recall, and Understanding

Background Knowledge Probe

Artifacts

Focused Reading Notes

Quotes

Stations

Team Jeopardy

Seminar

Analysis and Critical Thinking

Classify

Frames

Believing and Doubting

Academic Controversy

Split-Room Debate

Analytic Teams

Book Club

Small Group Tutorials

Synthesis and Creative Thinking

Team Concept Maps

Variations

Letters

Role Play

Poster Sessions

Class Book

WebQuests

Problem Solving

What's the Problem?

Think Again

Think-Aloud-Pair-Problem Solving (TAPPS)

Proclamations

Send-a-Problem

Case Studies

Application and Performance

Contemporary Issues Journals

Hearing the Subject

Directed Paraphrase

Insights-Resources-Application (IRAs)

Jigsaw

Field Trips

Category II. Techniques for Developing Learner Attitudes, Values, and Self-Awareness

Attitudes and Values

Autobiographical Reflections

Dyadic Interviews

Circular Response

Ethical Dilemmas

Connected Communities

Stand Where You Stand

Self-Awareness as Learners

Learning Logs

Critical Incident Questionnaire (CIQ)

Go for the Goal

Post-test Analysis

Learning and Study Skills

In-class Portfolio

Resource Scavenger Hunt

Formative Quiz

Crib Cards

Student-Generated Rubrics

Triad Listening

Key to Courses and Professors in SET Examples

NSSE/SET Crosswalk Tables

References

Index

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