You've Got to Reach Them to Teach Them: Hard Facts About the Soft Skills of Student Engagement (Solutions)

Navigate the hot topic of student engagement with a true expert. The author explores the many factors involved in bringing out the best in students, such as relationships, emotions, environment, and expectations. Become empowered to demand an authentic joy for learning in your classroom. Real-life notes from the field, detailed discussions, practical strategies, and space for reflection complete this essential guide to student engagement. Engagement Chapter 1: Relationships Chapter 2: Emotion Chapter 3: Environment Chapter 4: Motivation Chapter 5: Fun Chapter 6: Confidence Chapter 7: Attitudes Chapter 8: Cultural Awareness Chapter 9: Expectations Chapter 10: The Engagement Toolbox Chapter 11: Creativity Chapter 12: Soft Skills Engagement is a hot topic these days among educators at all levels and in all disciplines. Standards, curricula, and assessment tools have been built and rebuilt to provide excellence and achievement, but now we re faced with the one variable that can turn all this effort into ash: the students. You ve Got to Reach Them to Teach Them shows the reader how to engage students and bring out their best, and how to create an environment in which students feel confident and safe enough to take risks, make mistakes, and immerse themselves in stimulating learning experiences. Above all, this book demands that an authentic joy for learning be returned to the classroom. You ve Got to Reach Them to Teach Them examines topics such as relationships, emotions, environment, and expectations, all of which have a major impact on student engagement. Each chapter is divided into three segments. Notes From the Field illustrates the chapter s topic in a real-life frame through mediums such as journal entries, vignettes, and student comments. The Discussion provides a closer look at the topic, including research and the topic s importance and relevance in the classroom. Steps Toward Solutions offers practical strategies for implementing the discussed ideas in the classroom. The author provides space for the reader to reflect on his or her thoughts at both the beginning and end of each chapter, and encourages the reader to set a goal of one new strategy as a result of the information given in the chapter.

You've Got to Reach Them to Teach Them provides simple, straightforward strategies to draw students in and bring out their best. Author Mary Kim Schreck examines topics such as relationships, emotions, environment, and expectations, and shows educators how to create an environment in which students feel confident and safe enough to take risks, make mistakes, and immerse themselves in stimulating learning experiences.