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Student engagement plays a huge role in classroom discipline techniques. Classroom management is essential and student engagement goes hand and hand with classroom management. I always try to implement strategies integrated into the learning activities such as discussion, assignments and assessments. Preparing ahead of time will help you delineate a clear focus for the discussion and set well-defined parameters. This will enable the class to address important topics from multiple perspectives, thus increasing students’ curiosity for, and engagement with, course content. When I think of best practices for classroom discipline techniques I think of integrating active learning strategies into course curriculum as well as set clear expectations, design effective evaluation strategies, and provide helpful feedback. As an instructor I try to aim to provide student-centered learning into instruction in order to increase opportunities for student engagement, which then helps every student be...See More
Jenna Clarissa, I completely agree with your point that "student engagement goes hand in hand with classroom management." When students are engaged and appropriately challenged in their learning, there will likely be fewer management issues. As Stronge, Tucker, & Hindman state, "through fair and consistent discipline, teachers reinforce their expecta...See More
Sep 25, 2014
Josh H. The topic of student engagement has been coming up for me a lot lately. During the observations of my class for the the blog assignment, I mentioned that there were times where the instructor was lacking student engagement. These where typically times where she was asking broad, deep-thinking questions of the entire class. She would often get blank...See More
Sep 26, 2014
Beccah Clarissa--I definitely agree that student engagement is essential to a well run classroom. If the students are engaged in the lesson, then not only are they learning but they are enjoying what they are learning. There's nothing better than hearing "What? Class is over already?". At least from a group of middle schoolers.

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Sep 28, 2014


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