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Frederic Krome – Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2024
Science fiction literature and film are an underappreciated source for the teaching of history. Finding material that can excite a student's curiosity can be a key towards greater student engagement, especially among students who are taking history as a requirement, rather than from interest. The discovery that they can read or watch science…
Descriptors: History Instruction, Instructional Innovation, Teaching Methods, Science Fiction
Porosoff, Lauren – ASCD, 2023
Authentic engagement is a choice students make every day to bring themselves to their learning, work, and relationships--rather than simply go through the motions of school. It means sharing experiences; asking questions; trying new things; making mistakes; and allowing themselves to be seen, heard, and cared for. It's an active choice that can…
Descriptors: Authentic Learning, Learner Engagement, Teaching Methods, Instructional Design
France, Paul Emerich – ASCD, 2023
Traditional approaches to the practice of teaching are unsustainable. Too many educators are disengaging, burning out, and leaving the profession in response to stressors both inside and outside of schools. And high teacher turnover has a negative effect on our students. In "Make Teaching Sustainable," Paul Emerich France explores six…
Descriptors: Educational Environment, Student Empowerment, Humanism, Collectivism
Nash, Ron – Corwin, 2023
Students have an endless capacity of positive energy that can be harnessed into deeper understanding. This notion lies at the heart of "The Power of We." Through a powerful combination of first-hand stories and expert research, author Ron Nash recounts his awakening to the truth that engaging students starts by involving them as active…
Descriptors: Positive Attitudes, Cooperative Learning, Classroom Environment, Learner Engagement
Berry, Amy – Corwin, 2022
Instead of disruptions, avoidance, and withdrawal, your learners could be participating, investing, and "driving" their learning experience. It's time to reimagine student engagement! Focused around three essential goals, "Reimagining Student Engagement" develops a new vocabulary for real classrooms, proposes an engagement…
Descriptors: Learner Engagement, Active Learning, Vignettes, Case Studies
Richard A. DeLorenzo; Roxanne L. Mourant – Solution Tree, 2024
The traditional system of education is failing our students. Evidence shows competency-based education (CBE) develops empowered learners who succeed, but effective implementation requires a systemwide, coordinated approach. Competency-Based Education Ignited offers school and district leaders a road map for successfully transitioning to CBE that…
Descriptors: Competency Based Education, Elementary Secondary Education, Teacher Attitudes, Student Attitudes
Jacobs, Heidi Hayes; Zmuda, Allison – ASCD, 2023
With so many standards to address and templates to fill out, curriculum design and lesson planning can be cumbersome and overwhelming. And every teacher knows the struggle of trying to cover all the required content, which may or may not resonate with their students. In "Streamlining the Curriculum," experts Heidi Hayes Jacobs and…
Descriptors: Curriculum Development, Lesson Plans, Educational Change, Learner Engagement
Nash, Ron – Corwin, 2023
Classrooms should be inviting and safe places where students can strive to achieve worthwhile goals, even as they learn that the road to improvement is not always paved. This deceptively simple guiding principle is what Ron Nash has spent four decades in education pursuing and refining. "In Praise of Foibles: The Impact of Mistakes, Failure,…
Descriptors: Educational Improvement, Best Practices, Educational Environment, School Safety
Murray-Darden, Sonya; Turner, Gwendolyn Y. – Corwin, 2023
Planning for equitable accelerated learning is analogous to preparing a meal. Similar to a chef selecting the menu, gathering ingredients, and planning the occasion, educators choose aligned curricula to prioritize learning, organize and internalize instruction, and plan for opportunities to advance student learning. Grounded in research and…
Descriptors: Equal Education, Acceleration (Education), Planning, Empowerment
Darlyne de Haan – Solution Tree, 2024
Discover how to bridge linguistic barriers and deliver meaningful, engaging lessons to all K-12 students, including multilingual learners. With culturally responsive teaching, scaffolding, and scientific approaches such as Claim, Evidence, Reasoning (CER), author Darlyne de Haan proposes general education STEM teachers can seal the leaky STEM…
Descriptors: STEM Education, Elementary Secondary Education, Student Diversity, Culturally Relevant Education
Meredith McNerney – ASCD, 2024
Calm is a choice. The key to a calm classroom isn't students who are obedient or quiet but students who feel empowered and safe. It starts with you as the teacher and your ability to foster an environment that supports emotional awareness, psychological safety and belonging, and connected relationships. In "Cultivating a Classroom of…
Descriptors: Classroom Environment, Student Behavior, Learner Engagement, Self Management
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Laura W. Perna Ed. – Higher Education: Handbook of Theory and Research, 2024
Published annually since 1985, the Handbook series provides a compendium of thorough and integrative literature reviews on a diverse array of topics of interest to the higher education scholarly and policy communities. Each chapter provides a comprehensive review of research findings on a selected topic, critiques the research literature in terms…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Educational Policy, Scholarship, Writing (Composition)
Noreen Dunnett – Routledge Research in Education, 2024
This book challenges common understandings of boredom and disengagement in classrooms, taking a relational approach to boredom which looks beyond the usual distinctions between in-school and out-of-school practices. The book explores how a sociomaterial perspective can provide an alternative analysis of boredom as performative, and as a phenomenon…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Secondary Schools, Secondary School Students, Game Based Learning
Julia A. Simms – Solution Tree, 2024
With many distractions competing for students' attention, student engagement and knowledge retention are more important than ever. "Where Learning Happens" explores the types of attention--sustained, selective, divided, and effective--in depth and provides research-suggested strategies to maximize student attention and engagement. By…
Descriptors: Short Term Memory, Attention, Learner Engagement, Elementary Secondary Education
Stronge, James H.; Straessle, Jessica M.; Xu, Xianxuan – ASCD, 2023
The ultimate new teacher's guide to surviving and thriving in the classroom, "Smart from the Start" is the springboard to help you establish and improve your practice in meaningful ways. Teachers have a wide range of responsibilities--not all of which can be addressed in teacher preparation programs--and for new and returning educators…
Descriptors: Beginning Teachers, Educational Resources, Classroom Techniques, Educational Practices
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