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What can we do in the classroom to help our students to become engaged in their work, to be fully involved? This post is a follow-up to one written in June 2011, and provides a "variety of strategies and approaches" you may try to help move students from being on-task to being engaged. To whet your appetite, here are the first two.
* Ask questions that don't have right or wrong answers. Seek student opinions, allow argumentation, encourage persuasion, and teach students how to disagree and debate in a positive way.
* Strike a balance between praise and feedback. Grant Wiggins, co-author of Understanding by Design points out that praise, "Keeps me in the game, but doesn't help me get any better." While praise may encourage effort, specific feedback is necessary in order to truly learn and grow.
To read the article from June 2011, which has seven strategies/approaches: http://ascd.typepad.com/blog/2011/06/on-task-doesnt-mean-engaged.html ;
