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Your expert resource to activate, manage, and maintain lasting student success!
Student disengagement is a huge challenge for teachers everywhere. Leading education expert Jennifer Fredricks empowers teachers to reengage students at all levels with powerful examples and clear-eyed implementation strategies that build essential 21st century learning skills. Teachers get the core facts about the causes, consequences, and solutions to disengagement and learn to confidently: Identify students most at risk for disengagement; Implement student-centered, project-based learning practices for maximum educational outcomes; Work effectively with diverse groups of disengaged youth; Build positive peer cultures and high-quality student-teacher relationships
Straightforward how-to's from practicing classroom teachers, extensively researched online and print resources, and assessment and observation tips help educators make real-world applications. Cultivate lasting student engagement and transform educational outcomes with this must-have resource!
Myth 4: Hands-on Is Minds-on: How to Create More Engaging Classroom Tasks That Result in Deep Learning
Myth 4: Hands-on Is Minds-on: How to Create More Engaging Classroom Tasks That Result in Deep Learning
How do I initially motivate my students to want to learn? How do I sustain this interest and translate it into deeper learning? How do I get my students to really understand what they are doing rather than just focusing on finishing the assignment or passing the test? These are difficult questions that have been at the heart of educational research over the past several decades. It is clear that to answer these questions teachers will need to attend to both the motivational and cognitive features of classroom tasks.
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