Transforming Education
Self-Management Strategies
What self-management techniques help scholars achieve their goals? Readers review a list of strategies for managing stress, increasing motivation, and setting goals. They discover how to monitor their emotions, create checklists to stay...
Transforming Education
Social Awareness Strategies
What are the benefits of developing social awareness? Using the resource, readers learn strategies for fostering civil discourse, creating a participatory classroom, and enhancing family involvement. Scholars also take a personality...
EngageNY
TASC Transition Curriculum: Workshop 15
What do a cheetah, Audi commercial, and air have in common? They're all topics of an engaging inquiry-based, hands-on workshop for educators about background knowledge, reading strategies, the CER model, and argumentative writing. The...
New York State Education Department
TASC Transition Curriculum: Workshop 3
Teachers turning into learners? It's not Freaky Friday! It's a thoughtful workshop that teaches participants how to plan professional development for staff. Third in a 15-part series, the workshop provides a platform for the other...
Austin Independent School District
Austin Independent School District: Universal Engagement Strategies [Pdf]
Lesson where students are not engaged followed by descriptions of ten engagement strategies including turn and talk, green and red cards, everybody stand up, and more.
ReadWriteThink
Read Write Think: Solving Word Meanings: Engaging Strategies for Vocabulary Dev.
A 5-lesson unit where learners learn to use context clues and semantic gradients together to determine the meanings of unfamiliar words.
Texas Education Agency
Texas Gateway:writing an Engaging Story With Literary Strategies to Enhance Plot
You will be able to use various literary strategies and devices, including dialogue and suspense, to enhance the plot in a short story. W.11-12.3b Narratives
Edutopia
Edutopia: Learner Interest Matters: Strategies for Empowering Student Choice
When a topic connects to what students like to do, engagement deepens as they willingly spend time thinking, dialoguing, and creating ideas in meaningful ways. This article gives ideas on how to harness the power of your students'...
Writing Fix
Writing Fix: Starting & Stopping With Strong Imagery: Revision Strategy
In this lesson, students will engage in revising their writings to incorporate sensory images. Students will brainstorm topics of places, away from their home, that are special. Then students will choose and then write a descriptive...
International Reading Association
Reading Online: Classroom Strategies for Exploring Authenticity in the Media
Four innovative classroom activities that actively engage students in analyzing and criticizing media messages. SL.11-12.2 Eval&Integrate sources
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Strategies to Build Engaging Digital Lessons for High School Students
In this blog, a teacher offers strategies for building engaging digital lessons as a result of the Covid Pandemic. My first task is to figure out how to make my lessons clear. I am working without the benefit of being able to circle the...
AdLit
Ad lit.org: Stuck in the Middle: Strategies to Engage Middle Level Learners
Learn about three strategies that can help create a meaningful curriculum to engage middle-level learners. The strategies draw from effective classroom practices across grade levels, as well as from research about the social, emotional,...
Texas Education Agency
Texas Gateway: Writing Engaging Stories With Literary Strategies to Enhance Plot
Use various literary strategies and devices, including dialogue and suspense, to enhance the plot in a short story.
AdLit
Ad lit.org: Use Cooperative Learning Groups to Engage Learners
When teachers structure cooperative learning groups as part of the overall reading program, they also open the door to a multiple intelligences approach to literacy, which is inherent in cooperative learning. This article offers guidance...
AdLit
Ad lit.org: Engaging Family & Community in Afterschool and Summer Programs
Informal literacy experiences often serve to shape young people's identity as readers and writers as much as or more than formal schooling.Community and family support can emphasize the importance of reading and writing, build...
AdLit
Ad lit.org: Student Motivation and Engagement in Literacy Learning
Teachers can help students build confidence in their ability to comprehend content-area texts, by providing a supportive environment and offering information on how reading strategies can be modified to fit various tasks. Teachers should...
AdLit
Ad lit.org: Classroom Strategies: Inquiry Charts (I Charts)
The Inquiry Chart (I-Chart) is a strategy that enables students to generate meaningful questions about a topic and organize their writing. Students integrate prior knowledge or thoughts about the topic with additional information found...
EngageNY
Engage Ny: Lesson 19: Analyzing Decisions and Strategies Using Probability
In this lesson, students compare strategies by evaluating the associated probabilities of success. Additionally, problems are included where students are asked whether the result of a probability experiment provides sufficient evidence...
Other
Leadership in Ed.: Engaging Students Through Rigorous and Relevant Instruc [Pdf]
This site is a Power Point presentation entitled Engaging Students through Rigorous and Relevant Instruction. The presentation includes research, instructional strategies, and assessment tips.
Texas Education Agency
Texas Gateway:writing an Engaging Story With Literary Strategies to Enhance Plot
A learning module that teaches students about writing a short story with a strong plot in seven mini-lessons: Introduction, Choose the Point of View, Figure Out What to Say, Suspend Readers in Midair, Write about a Central Theme, Read A...
Other
Teach Hub: Teaching Strategies to Keep Students Engaged in Learning
Through different teaching strategies like project-based learning and the flipped classroom, new techniques have changed the way teachers teach and learners learn. Here are a few more teaching strategies that are guaranteed to keep your...
AdLit
Ad lit.org: Classroom Strategies: Semantic Feature Analysis
The Semantic Feature Analysis strategy engages students in reading assignments by asking them to relate selected vocabulary to key features of the text. This technique uses a matrix to help students discover how one set of things is...
AdLit
Ad lit.org: Classroom Strategies: Seed Discussion
A Seed Discussion is a two-part strategy used to teach students how to engage in discussions about assigned readings. In the first part, students read selected text and identify "seeds" or key concepts of a passage which may need...
Daily Teaching Tools
Daily Teaching Tools: 3 Ways to Hook Into Student Engagement
Improve student engagement in your classroom with these three techniques: Implement Active Learning Techniques, Ask Open-Ended Questions, and Employ Gaming.