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How to Spark Engagement in K-8 Math With Pictures - Edutopia

How to Spark Engagement in K-8 Math With Pictures - Edutopia | Professional Learning for Busy Educators | Scoop.it
A popular strategy, using pictures in math class gives students another way to access math concepts and can spark great conversations.
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Four Questions to Maximize Engagement – A.J. Juliani @ajjuliani

Four Questions to Maximize Engagement – A.J. Juliani @ajjuliani | Professional Learning for Busy Educators | Scoop.it
When I heard the news that Phil Schlechty had passed away it was sudden and I felt sadness. I’ve never met Phil but I’ve been deeply impacted by his work throughout the years. You see it’s one of the things I’m learning about education and writing in this whole connected place: We get to know people through their work, we get to know people through their passions, and we get to know people who we actually don’t know face-to-face.

Schlechty’s work around engagement is one of the most enlightening and simple frameworks for educators to use. What I found fascinating about his levels of engagement is that I could see myself in the classroom working towards compliance instead of engagement.
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8 Ways to Encourage Family Engagement in Secondary Schools | Edutopia

8 Ways to Encourage Family Engagement in Secondary Schools | Edutopia | Professional Learning for Busy Educators | Scoop.it
When a school makes the decision to actively engage its diverse community of families, the benefits far outweigh the effort. Check out these eight ways to do it.
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9 Strategies for Motivating Students in Mathematics

9 Strategies for Motivating Students in Mathematics | Professional Learning for Busy Educators | Scoop.it
Keep your high school math students engaged with these techniques.
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12 Ways You Can Energize Classroom Learning [Infographic] by Lee Watanabe-Crockett

12 Ways You Can Energize Classroom Learning [Infographic] by Lee Watanabe-Crockett | Professional Learning for Busy Educators | Scoop.it
by Lee Watanabe-Crockett

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Why games are good for learning?

Why games are good for learning? | Professional Learning for Busy Educators | Scoop.it

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Francesco G. Lamacchia's curator insight, November 21, 2013 11:48 AM

Giocando....s'impara! 

Julio Cirnes's curator insight, November 25, 2013 3:46 PM

Please teacher, more games!

Ryan McDonough's curator insight, July 7, 2014 8:19 AM

Self explanatory visual on the benefits of gaming as a means of learning. Outlined are the rewards, mastery, engagement, intensity, exercise, readiness, and competitiveness. These types of graphics need to be displayed in the classroom. There's always parents who are unsure of how gaming qualifies as teaching. Can't they just sit their kid in front of an iPad all day at home? Well, in the appropriate setting, with the right direction and guidance, games are certainly good for learning. Some people just don't know that from experience yet.

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Why You Need 'The Blender’ to Engage Your Students - Getting Smart

Why You Need 'The Blender’ to Engage Your Students - Getting Smart | Professional Learning for Busy Educators | Scoop.it
By: John Hardison. ‘The Blender’ interactive learning structure is designed to foster engaged learning, by adding the main ingredient needed for students to express their creativity—opportunity.
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6 ways to engage your audience during a presentation - Daily Genius

6 ways to engage your audience during a presentation - Daily Genius | Professional Learning for Busy Educators | Scoop.it
If you get presentation anxiety, you aren’t alone. Doing a presentation, whether to colleagues, to potential clients or to a conference is very exposing. Getting it right, and keeping your audience interested is both tricky and vital.

Emma Cullen, Creative Content Producer at the online, interactive presentation platform, Mentimeter has some expert tips on how to ensure that you engage your audience when presenting.
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24 Intrinsic Motivation Examples in the Workplace, Sports, and the Classroom - Develop Good Habits

24 Intrinsic Motivation Examples in the Workplace, Sports, and the Classroom - Develop Good Habits | Professional Learning for Busy Educators | Scoop.it
Have you ever thought about why you do the things you do?What is it that really prompts your behaviors?Motivation can be either extrinsic or intrinsic, meaning it can either come from outside or inside of a person. Extrinsic motivation comes when you feel the urge to do something in order to gain a specific reward, …

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Jerry Busone's curator insight, December 31, 2017 9:08 AM

Lots of great ideas and some reading recommendations along the way... 

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5 Keys to Motivating Struggling Learners - Relationships still the key!  By Barbara Blackburn

5 Keys to Motivating Struggling Learners - Relationships still the key!  By Barbara Blackburn | Professional Learning for Busy Educators | Scoop.it
By Barbara Blackburn

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Dr. Theresa Kauffman's curator insight, June 25, 2017 2:48 PM
Absolutely true!  Relationships are critical for engaging students. My own research has shown this to me and as Rita Pierson famously said, They won't care about learning until they know that you care.
Koen Mattheeuws's curator insight, June 26, 2017 4:15 AM
Vijf sleutels waar je leerlingen al een heel eind mee komen. 
Rosemary Tyrrell, Ed.D.'s curator insight, June 26, 2017 1:19 PM
Well worth a read. While aimed at K-12 teachers, there is much that is useful for higher ed. 
 
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20 Strategies for Motivating Reluctant Learners - MIndShift

20 Strategies for Motivating Reluctant Learners - MIndShift | Professional Learning for Busy Educators | Scoop.it

"Kathy Perez has decades of experience as a classroom educator, with training in special education and teaching English language learners. She also has a dynamic style. Sitting through her workshop presentation with like being a student in her classroom. She presents on how to make the classroom engaging and motivating to all students, even the most reluctant learners, while modeling for her audience exactly how she would do it. The experience is a bit jarring because it’s so different from the lectures that dominate big education conferences, but it’s also refreshing and way more fun.

Perez says when students are engaged, predicting answers, talking with one another and sharing with the class in ways that follow safe routines and practices, they not only achieve more but they also act out less. And everyone, including the teacher, has more fun.

“If we don’t have their attention, what’s the point?” Perez asked an audience at a Learning and the Brain conference on mindsets."

Ceci Cadena's curator insight, March 7, 2016 10:04 AM

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Leonardo Arévalo Valencia's curator insight, February 17, 2020 3:05 PM
In this article I could find some important stretegies about how motivating early students. The way in which young learners learn and the stretgies to catch thier attention are very important, since everyday the stretegies that we usually use in order to motivate our students are in constantly changing.