Ten Steps to Better Student Engagement

The author travels the country teaching teachers strategies for creating and managing high-quality project-learning environments. He gave ten strategies teachers should use to keep students engaged. The classroom should be emotionally safe. There should be varied rich, complex tasks where every student has a chance to excel. Teachers keep students engaged and try to keep a high level of engagement where projects are challenging with appropriate support. Students should reflect often, and have flexibility in approach to solving problems. Students should use the design process to revise work to raise the level of quality. Students should develop a list of big ideas to help them make connections between assignments and real life.

This article reiterated what I know to be true about engagement. I liked the idea of revising work in a variety of subjects/activities, so students produce work of a better quality. The reflection time gets limited or not included many times in my week.