AdLit
Ad lit.org: Using Student Engagement to Improve Adolescent Literacy
For struggling adolescent readers, creating student interest is as vital as teaching language skills.
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 Literary Text With an Engaging Story Line
A learning module that teaches students how to write an engaging literary text in six lessons: Introduction, The Narrative Hook, Setting, Conflict, Plot, and Ending.
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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.
Other
Socrative Student Response System
Socrative is a smart student response system that empowers teachers to engage their classrooms through a series of educational exercises and games via smartphones, laptops, and tablets.
US Environmental Protection Agency
Epa: A Student's Guide to Global Climate Change
The signs of global climate change are becoming more and more evident. The EPA provides an excellent guide for students that acquaints them with the basic causes, effects on people and the environment, and solutions that they can engage...
Annenberg Foundation
Annenberg Learner: Connecting With the Arts: Why Integrate the Arts?
A video workshop for middle school teachers that demonstrates the effect integrating the arts can have on student engagement by addressing different learning styles, promoting creativity, and giving students an alternate means to...
AdLit
Ad lit.org: Re Conceptualizing Extra Help for High School Students
The push to ensure all students engage in challenging classes in high school has created new demands on high schools, including a demand to providing extra help for students who are behind in reading, mathematics, and advanced reasoning...
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Blogging, Civic Engagement and the Dream Act
This multi-task lesson asks students to look at the DREAM Act in the context of immigration reform and also to reflect on blogging as civic engagement.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Strategies to Engage and Motivate Students on Khan Academy
A description of ways to make students excited and motivated to learn and practice on Khan Academy.
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Pbs News Hour Student Reporting Labs Collection
Student Reporting Labs (SRL) creates transformative educational experiences through video journalism that inspire youth to find their voice and engage with their communities. SRL lesson plans, assignment prompts and instruction tools...
AdLit
Ad lit.org: Rethinking High School: Five Profiles of Models for Student Success
Only 68% of all students entering high school nationwide will earn their diploma. The news for students from historically underserved populations is even worse. These students have slightly more than a 50% chance of graduating from high...
Other
Jensen Learning: Secrets to Ramping Up Student Effort: 10 Step Checklist
Over the years, student effort has been called many things. Some call it "motivation" and others call it "work ethic." But no matter what you call it, students will never rise to their full potential without a strong effort. Here is what...
PBS
Colorin Colorado: Connect Students' Background Knowledge to Content
In this article, teachers will learn strategies for connecting with students' background knowledge to engage ELL students. Research is used to support the strategies, and web links are provided for additional resources to support...
Louisiana Department of Education
Louisiana Doe: Louisiana Believes: Ela Guidebooks: Student Led Discussions (Socratic Seminar, Fishbowl)
This strategy helps students refine their understanding of complex texts to meet reading expectations, engage in a variety of group conversations, and prepare for writing about texts.
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.
Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College
Serc: Observations & Interpretations: Engaging Students in Classroom Experiments
Use this method to emphasize and clarify for students the importance of differentiating between observations and interpretations, and qualitative and quantitative observations. Students will learn how a hypothesis may change as new...
Other
Center for Teaching Excellence: Activities to Engage Students [Pdf]
This resource gives numerous strategies to engage students in different types of collaborative discussion.
ReadWriteThink
Read Write Think: Literature Circles With Primary Students, Self Selected Reading
Students respond to self-selected books in journals and talk about their books daily in small groups. The teacher guides students by offering suggestions and writing with them in dialogue journals.
Other
The Student Conservation Association
Mission: To build the next generation of conservation leaders and inspire lifelong stewardship of the environment and communities by engaging young people in hands-on service to the land.
Florida Center for Reading Research
Florida Center for Reading Research: Student Center Activities, K 1
In 2004-2005, a team of teachers at FCRR reviewed current research, collected ideas, and created materials for use in kindergarten and first grade classrooms. The K-1 Student Center Activities include three books and one DVD: The first...
Louisiana Department of Education
Louisiana Doe: Curriculum Hub: Ela Guidebooks: Application Student Selected Task: Small Group Discussions
We will engage in small-group discussions to demonstrate our understanding of our research topics. This will help us prepare for further research and product creation.
ReadWriteThink
Read Write Think: Writing Workshop: Helping Writers Choose and Focus on a Topic
Students engage in writing workshop, using a timeline to focus in on and write about a specific event.
AdLit
Ad lit.org: Parent Engagement in Transitions to Middle and High School
Using the 3A framework (Attendance, Achievement, and Attainment) for dropout prevention developed by the America's Promise Alliance and the Annie E. Casey Foundation, this article highlights specific knowledge that parents need to...