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A measure of a student's level of interaction with others, class activities, and class content.
What is Student Engagement?
The name of the teaching technique that involves posing thought-provoking questions and encouraging students to participate in open-ended discussions
What is Socratic Questioning?
Any type of activity during class (face-to-face, online, or outside of class) that engages learners in deep thought about the subject matter in your course.
What is active learning?
This strategy involves students working together in groups to achieve a common goal. It promotes teamwork, communication, and critical thinking.
What is collaborative learning?
The process of transforming the typical classroom environment by using game-based elements such as point scoring, peer competition, team work, and score tables. The purpose is to increase engagement through the use of competition (both individual and class-wide), creativity, student-led learning, and immediate feedback.
What is Gamification?
Students feel like they're a part of the school community and are happy to be there! They show this through their active participation in activities within their educational institution.
What is Emotional Engagement?
Teaching technique that involves breaking down complex concepts into smaller, more manageable pieces to aid student understanding
What is scaffolding?
A collaborative learning strategy where students first think about a prompt, share their thoughts with their classmates, and then discuss and share their findings as a whole class.
What is think-pair-share?
In this strategy, students take on the role of the teacher and teach their peers. This promotes active learning, collaboration, and leadership skills.
What is Peer Teaching?
A situation in which two or more people actively interact to learn. This is based on social constructivist theory.
What is Collaborative Learning?
The extent to which students are willing and able to take on the learning task at hand.
What is Cognitive Engagement?
The term is used to describe the practice of providing students with multiple ways to learn and demonstrate their knowledge.
What is differentiation?
An instructional approach wherein students complete an assignment and submit it online prior to class time. The instructor reviews the submitted work and prepares or adapts the in-class activities according to student capabilities and performance on the pre-class work.
What is just-in-time teaching or flipped learning?
This strategy involves students engaging in open-ended discussions about a particular topic. It promotes critical thinking, analysis, and communication skills.
What is Discussion-Based teaching?
Games that do not involve technology or computers.
What is Low-Tech Gaming?
The observable act of students being involved in learning.
What is Behavioral Engagement?
The teaching method involves providing students with frequent feedback on their assessed performance and they get opportunities to reflect on their learning
What is formative assessment?
A classroom assessment technique (C.A.T.) that gives students opportunities to point out what they are most confused about and clearly explain what is muddy.
What is the muddiest point strategy?
This strategy involves students working together to complete a project that is relevant to real-world situations. It promotes critical thinking, problem-solving, and creativity.
What is problem-based teaching?
Games involving media, computers, or websites.
What is Hi-Tech Gaming?
A student who is on task and completes what is asked from him or her but it does not mean he/she is engaged their learning.
What is Compliant Engagement?
A formative assessment tool offering an effective way to end a class. Teachers may use exit tickets to assess students' understanding of the topics they are teaching in class.
What is an exit ticket?
A strategy for organizing medium- to large-group discussions. Students are separated into an inner and outer circle. In the inner circle or fishbowl, students have a discussion; students in the outer circle listen to the discussion and take notes.
What is a fish bowl strategy in teaching?
This strategy involves using AI-powered software that provides personalized learning experiences to students. The software adapts to the student's learning style and pace, providing targeted feedback and guidance to help the student achieve their learning goals. These systems can provide a more personalized learning experience, allowing students to work at their own pace and receive immediate feedback, which can improve motivation and engagement.
What is Intelligent Tutoring?
A research-based approach to teaching. It connects students’ cultures, languages, and life experiences with what they learn in school. These connections help students access the rigorous curriculum and develop higher-level academic skills.
What is Culturally Responsive Teaching?