Motivating Minds - How to Promote Engagement and Participation in K-12 Classrooms

It is vital that students think independently and critically to tackle the challenges of today’s ever-changing world. The book shows how educators can facilitate the learning process by creating, monitoring, and assessing affective deep learning in the contemporary classroom.

List of contents

Preface
Acknowledgments
Chapter 1: Creating Anticipation
Chapter 2: Using the "Fun Theory" to Engage Students in Learning
Chapter 3: Pursuing Wonder
Chapter 4: Musing for Mental Exercise
Chapter 5: Sending Students on Discovery Missions
Chapter 6: Promoting Participation
Chapter 7: Coaching with Cooperative Learning
Chapter 8: Practice Prime Problem Solving
Chapter 9: Discovering with Cognitive and Social Experiments
Chapter 10: Conducting Surveys
Chapter 11: Fostering Public Speaking
Bibliography
Student Testimonials
About the Author

About the author

Elisheva Zeffren is currently an educational consultant and high school teacher in Brooklyn, New York. Miss Zeffren confers closely with the faculty who welcome her assistance.

Summary

It is vital that students think independently and critically to tackle the challenges of today’s ever-changing world. The book shows how educators can facilitate the learning process by creating, monitoring, and assessing affective deep learning in the contemporary classroom.

Product details

• Authors: Elisheva Zeffren
• Publisher: Rowman and Littlefield
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.07.2017
• EAN: 9781475836387
• ISBN: 978-1-4758-3638-7
• No. of pages: 218
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Education > School education, didactics, methodology; EDUCATION / Administration / General, Teaching skills and techniques, Teaching staff, Teaching skills & techniques, EDUCATION / Teaching / Methods & Strategies, curriculum;teaching methods