Reimagining Student Engagement
From Disrupting to Driving
- Amy Berry - University of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Foreword by John Hattie
Engage students as true partners in learning
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 model positioning students as active partners in the learning process, and embeds the concept of engagement into the teaching and learning process. Inside you’ll find:
- Reflection prompts that connect ideas to experiences
- Vignettes illustrating common conceptions of engagement as well as challenges
- Case studies showcasing real teachers using engagement strategies with learners
- Practical classroom strategies and tips for application
When you reimagine student engagement, you’ll see your students as true agents of their own learning and provide them with the motivational resources that fuel collaboration and school success.
'Engagement' is a term ubiquitous in education but it's a rather 'slippery' term, one which means different things in different contexts. The value of this book lies in how it explores what is actually meant by this term before offering practical strategies to be used in the classroom - really helpful for everyone in education.
Very useful tool, hoping to review 'creating an actively engaged classroom' off teh strength of this book.