Student Engagement Techniques
A Handbook for College Faculty
2. Edition June 2020
432 Pages, Softcover
Handbook/Reference Book
Further versions
Practical Strategies and Winning Techniques to Engage and Enhance Student Learning
The revised and updated second edition of Student Engagement Techniques is a much-needed guide to engaging today's information-overloaded students. The book is a comprehensive resource that offers college teachers a dynamic model for engaging students and includes over one hundred tips, strategies, and techniques that have been proven to help teachers across all disciplines motivate and connect with their students.
This edition will provide a deeper understanding of what student engagement is, demonstrate new strategies for engaging students, uncover implementation strategies for engaging students in online learning environments, and provide new examples on how to implement these techniques into STEM fields.
"Student Engagement Techniques is among a handful of books-several of which are in this series!-designed specifically to help instructors, regardless of experience, create the conditions that make meaningful, engaged learning not just possible but highly probable." -Michael Palmer, Ph.D., Director, Center for Teaching Excellence, Professor, General Faculty, University of Virginia
"This practical guide to motivating and engaging students reads like a quite enjoyable series of conversations held over coffee with skilled colleagues. It has been met with delight from every faculty member and graduate instructor that we've shared the book with!" -Megan L. Mittelstadt, Ph.D., Director, Center for Teaching and Learning, The University of Georgia
"Student Engagement Techniques belongs in the hands of 21st century instructors and faculty developers alike. Its research-based, specific, yet broadly applicable strategies can increase student engagement in face-to-face and online courses in any discipline." -Jeanine A. Irons, Ph.D., Faculty Developer for Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion, Center for Teaching and Learning Excellence, Syracuse University
"This book is an essential resource for faculty seeking to better engage with their students. Anyone seeking a clear, research-based, and actionable guide needs a copy of Student Engagement Techniques on their shelf!" -Michael S. Harris, Ed.D., Associate Professor of Higher Education, Director, Center for Teaching Excellence, Southern Methodist University
Acknowledgments xv
Part One: A Conceptual Framework for Understanding Student Engagement 1
1 What Does "Student Engagement" Mean? 3
2 Engagement and Motivation 16
3 Engagement and Active Learning 28
4 Promoting Synergy Between Motivation and Active Learning 45
Part Two: Tips and Strategies 61
5 Tips and Strategies for Fostering Motivation 65
6 Tips and Strategies for Promoting Active Learning 86
7 Tips and Strategies for Building Community 103
8 Tips and Strategies to Ensure Students Are Challenged Appropriately 122
9 Tips and Strategies to Promote Holistic Learning 129
Part Three: Student Engagement Techniques (Sets) 141
Category I. Techniques to Engage Students in Learning Course-Related Knowledge and Skills 146
10 Knowledge, Skills, Recall, and Understanding 147
1 Background Knowledge Probe 148
2 Artifacts 153
3 Focused Reading Notes 157
4 Quotes 161
5 Stations 165
6 Team Jeopardy 169
7 Seminar 177
11 Analysis and Critical Thinking 182
8 Classify 183
9 Frames 187
10 Believing and Doubting 192
11 Academic Controversy 197
12 Split-Room Debate 201
13 Analytic Teams 206
14 Book Club 211
15 Small Group Tutorials 215
12 Synthesis and Creative Thinking 219
16 Team Concept Maps 220
17 Variations 227
18 Letters 230
19 Role Play 234
20 Poster Sessions 241
21 Class Book 245
22 WebQuest 249
13 Problem Solving 253
23 What's the Problem? 254
24 Think Again! 258
25 Think-Aloud-Pair-Problem Solving (TAPPS) 261
26 Proclamations 266
27 Send-a-Problem 270
28 Case Studies 276
14 Application and Performance 280
29 Contemporary Issues Journal 281
30 Hearing the Subject 285
31 Directed Paraphrase 290
32 Insights-Resources-Application (IRAs) 293
33 Jigsaw 296
34 Field Trips 303
Category II. Techniques for Developing Learner Attitudes, Values, and Self-Awareness 307
15 Attitudes and Values 308
35 Autobiographical Reflections 309
36 Dyadic Interviews 313
37 Circular Response 318
38 Ethical Dilemmas 322
39 Connected Communities 326
40 Stand Where You Stand 330
16 Self-Awareness as Learners 333
41 Learning Logs 334
42 Critical Incident Questionnaire (CIQ) 338
43 Go for the Goal 343
44 Post-Test Analysis 348
17 Learning and Study Skills 352
45 In-Class Portfolio 353
46 Resource Scavenger Hunt 358
47 Formative Quiz 361
48 Crib Cards 365
49 Student Generated Rubrics 369
50 Triad Listening 374
Appendices
Appendix A: Courses/Disciplines from Examples 379
Appendix B: Key to SET Professor Names 385
Bibliography 391
Index 409
CLAIRE HOWELL MAJOR is a teacher, writer, and speaker with more than three decades of teaching experience in higher education.
