Student Engagement Techniques (PDF)

Keeping students involved, motivated, and actively learning ischallenging educators across the country,yet good advice on how toaccomplish this has not been readily available. Student EngagementTechniques is a comprehensive resource that offers college teachersa dynamic model for engaging students and includes over one hundredtips, strategies, and techniques that have been proven to helpteachers from a wide variety of disciplines and institutionsmotivate and connect with their students. The ready-to-use formatshows how to apply each of the book's techniques in the classroomand includes purpose, preparation, procedures, examples, onlineimplementation, variations and extensions, observations and advice,and key resources.

"Given the current and welcome surge of interest in improvingstudent learning and success, this guide is a timely and importanttool, sharply focused on practical strategies that can reallymatter."
?Kay McClenney, director, Center for Community College StudentEngagement, Community College Leadership Program, the University ofTexas at Austin

"This book is a 'must' for every new faculty orientation program;it not only emphasizes the importance of concentrating on whatstudents learn but provides clear steps to prepare and execute anengagement technique. Faculty looking for ideas to heighten studentengagement in their courses will find usefultechniques that can beadopted, adapted, extended, or modified."
?Bob Smallwood, cocreator of CLASSE (Classroom Survey of StudentEngagement) and assistant to the provost for assessment, Office ofInstitutional Effectiveness, University of Alabama

"Elizabeth Barkley's encyclopedia of active learning techniques(here called SETs) combines both a solid discussion of the researchon learning that supports the concept of engagement and real-lifeexamples of these approaches to teaching in action."
?James Rhem, executive editor, The National Teaching & LearningForum