Engaging Learning Strategies
Learning is active, engaging, and social. Students need to be engaged and motivated in their learning before they can apply higher order, creative thinking skills. They are most engaged when they themselves are part of constructing meaning, not when teachers do it for them. By encouraging students to meet challenges creatively, collaborate, and apply critical thinking skills to real-world, unpredictable situations inside and outside of school, we prepare them for future college, career, and citizenship success.
Effective classroom instruction that embraces both high standards and accountability for students' learning can be project-based, focused on service and the community, experiential, cooperative, expeditionary ... the list goes on. These engaging learning strategies are grounded in instructional objectives, provide clear feedback, and enable students to thrive cognitively, socially, emotionally, and civically.
From the Whole Child Blog
Throughout February: Engaging Learning Strategies
Learning is active, engaging, and social. Students need to be engaged and motivated in their learning before they can apply higher-order creative thinking skills. They are most engaged when they themselves are part of constructing meaning, not when teachers do it for them. By encouraging students to meet challenges creatively, collaborate, and apply critical-thinking skills to real-world, unpredictable situations inside and outside of school, we prepare them for future college, career, and citizenship success.
Join us throughout February as we examine effective classroom instruction that embraces both high standards and accountability for students' learning. It can be project-based, focused on service and the community, experiential, cooperative, expeditionary ... the list goes on. These engaging learning strategies are grounded in instructional objectives, provide clear feedback, and enable students to thrive cognitively, socially, emotionally, and civically.
Whole Child Examples
Elementary Example
Town Meetings and Shared Grade-Level Planning
Pierce Elementary School has made a significant transformation as a result of adopting character education as its focus.
All Engaging Learning Strategies Examples
Elementary Example
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Podcast
Using Engaging Learning Strategies to Connect School to the Real World
In this episode of the Whole Child Podcast, we examine effective classroom instruction -- project-based, focused on service and the community, experiential, cooperative, expeditionary -- that embraces both high standards and accountability for students' learning.
