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The question of the week at my Education Week Teacher blog is What Does “Student Engagement” Look Like?

In preparation for the response I’ll be posting on Sunday, I thought it would be useful to publish a related “The Best…” list here.

Here are my choices for The Best Posts & Articles On Student Engagement (feel free to add others):

The Best Posts & Articles On “Motivating” Students

The Best Posts On Students Setting Goals

The Best Resources For Learning About “Flow”

How Reading Strategies Can Increase Student Engagement

Kids Speak Out on Student Engagement is by Heather Wolpert-Gawron.

Engaging Students…Dangling the Carrot is from Learning First.

Charting the Path from Engagement to Achievement: A Report on the 2009 High School Survey of Student Engagement

Intriguing Gallup Student Poll Results, But Not Something I’d Quote A Lot

Resilience, Research, and Educational Reform is by Sara Truebridge at ASCD.

Wikipedia has a pretty interesting page on “student engagement.”

Strengthening Student Engagement: What Do Students Want(and what really motivates them)? is from Educational Leadership.

A related resources is Chart: Useful Summary Of The Differences Between Parent Involvement & Parent Engagement.


How Poverty Affects Classroom Engagement is by Eric Jensen.

Intriguing New Study On Student Engagement

Good Time: 4 Ways to Reawaken Student Engagement is from Edutopia.

Ways to Cultivate ‘Whole-Class Engagement’ is one of my posts at Education Week Teacher.

How Engaged Are Students and Teachers in American Schools? is from MindShift.

More Than Half of Students ‘Engaged’ in School, Says Poll is from Education Week.

Updated Personalization vs. Differentiation vs. Individualization Chart Version 3 is from Personalize Learning.

It Doesn’t Matter If It’s “Effective” If Students Won’t Do It

New Study: Engage Kids with 7x the Effect is from Edutopia.

Want to Take Over My Class? Be My Guest! is from Edutopia.

Dispelling the Myths: The Truth about Student Engagement is from the Alabama Best Practices Center.

The Best Ways To Engage Students In Learning is the title of one of my Education Week Teacher columns.

Golden Rules for Engaging Students in Learning Activities is from Edutopia.

Student Motivation And Clickbait

Measuring student engagement could help teachers, administrators adapt strategies might or might not be useful.

Very Interesting: Poll Finds That Students’ Feeling Engaged & Hopeful Are Top Indicators Of Successful School

Quote Of The Day: Make [School] Work Meaningful

A Recipe for Making Cold Call Feel Positive is by Doug Lemov.

Statistic Of The Day: Are Most High School Students Not Engaged At School?


Quote Of The Day: The Value Of Employees (& Students) Feeling “Ownership”

Statistic Of The Day: The Older Kids Get, The Less They Want To Go To School

Student Engagement: Is It Authentic or Compliant? is by Peter DeWitt.

Engaged Reading as a Collaborative Transformative Practice is an intriguing study.

Why Did My History Lesson Go So Well Yesterday?

Encouraging Positive Student Engagement and Motivation: Tips for Teachers comes via Pearson.

Under Pressure is from The Until I Know Better blog, and has lots of good student engagement ideas.

“Everyone Is A Teacher” Is A New Engagement Strategy I’m Using & It Seems To Be Working

New Study Finds That Threats & Using Guilt Tend Not To Produce Student Engagement – Duh!

Intriguing New Study On “Student Engagement” & How To Define It

8 Ways to Increase the Engagement in Your Classroom appeared at Corwin.

A Few Simple Phrases To Help Keep Students Engaged

NEW REPORT FROM THE UCHICAGO CONSORTIUM IS THE BEST SYNOPSIS OF USEFUL EDUCATION RESEARCH THAT I’VE SEEN IN A LONG TIME

TWO FREE ONLINE PROGRAMS FOR TEACHERS & STUDENTS – ONE ON STUDENT ENGAGEMENT & THE OTHER ON GROWTH MINDSET

“IF YOU WANT ENGAGED EMPLOYEES [OR STUDENTS], OFFER THEM STABILITY”

The Benefits of Sharing Our Planning With Students is from Edutopia.

‘Building Student Engagement Begins With Community & Relationships’ is a post at my Ed Week blog.

NEW SURVEY SAYS STUDENTS MOSTLY FEEL “TIRED, STRESSED & BORED ” (IN THAT ORDER) AT HIGH SCHOOL

STUDY FINDS ONE-THIRD OF U.S. FIFTEEN YEAR-OLDS FEEL DISCONNECTED FROM SCHOOL – & THAT WAS BEFORE THE PANDEMIC

6 Exercises to Get to Know Your Students Better—and Increase Their Engagement is from Edutopia.

New Thinking About Student Engagement is from ASCD.

Opportunities for Student Decision-Making is from Edutopia.

SIX WAYS FOR STUDENTS TO BE POWERFUL IN THE CLASSROOM – WHAT ARE MORE IDEAS?

STUDY FINDS THAT “HANDS-ON” MATH & PROACTIVE “ROUTINES & PROCEDURES” INCREASE TEST SCORES AND STUDENT ENGAGEMENT

Why employee satisfaction isn’t enough for employee engagement is from Fast Company.

A fresh approach to supporting students who are disengaged and task-avoidant is from Truth For Teachers.

 

New Thinking About Student Engagement is by Douglas Fisher and Nancy Frey.

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