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Increase Engagement In The Classroom – Take Your Classroom From Boring to Buzzing
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By Jodi
The Power of Engagement: Transforming the Classroom Experience
Importance of student engagement for effective learning; When students are engaged, they enjoy the learning process more, leading to a positive association with school. This positive experience can lead to a lifelong love of learning and maybe even future teachers.
Student engagement clearly impacts student success and retention of knowledge allowing them for current and future success.
Teachers can implement simple, yet powerful classroom engagement games, activities and strategies throughout the school day to make a significant difference in the enjoyment and engagement of all students.
Interactive Learning: Simple Games and Activities to Boost Classroom Participation
Introducing simple games that make learning fun and memorable; these can be simple games such as Guess the _____? writing activity or digital games such as Kahoot!
Examples of classroom activities that promote collaborative learning; students need the opportunity to talk and work together. These activities can include solving math problems or can be more involved writing activities.
Creating a dynamic classroom atmosphere through interactive strategies; give students a chance to move around and work together. This is what creates a dynamic classroom. Give the students the time to create, design and explain.
Check out this inexpensive teacher must have book that provides over 100 pages of classroom engagement games, activities and strategies to make a difference in your classroom:
Strategic Teaching: Implementing Proven Methods to Sustain Interest and Curiosity
Utilizing storytelling and context-based learning to engage students; providing a gamified story can hook students into wanting to participate and learn in the process.
The role of feedback and constructive interaction in maintaining attention will allow the students to take some ownership and encourage intrinsic motivation to learn.
Incorporating technology and multimedia as engagement tools can really make learning fun. Using Pear Deck slides to allow kids the true interactive live experience or Flashcard Factory to create flashcards from vocabulary words. Playing Kahoot and Blooket provide feedback to teachers as students play live games together.
