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"The conclusion is easy: if you're going to be teachingon the moon and have only one suitcase for resources, this is thebook on motivation and active learning that you'll want topack. I know it's the one I'd be taking with me... probably as a carry-on so I have something good to read on theway.„ --The Teaching Professor, December 2009
“The book is full of practical advice and ideas for teacherswho are striving to increase student engagement and learningsupported by research. It is well organized and accessible. StudentEngagement Techniques is an important and useful guide for anyteacher interested in improving student learning.„--Gayle Venegas, Math Teacher, San Jacinto USD (Icezablog. com)
“This handbook will be useful to educators with any level ofexperience in the classroom. It can provide guidance to new facultyand ways to refresh a stale course for faculty who want to updateor enhance their classroom experiences. While some of the SETS arecommon sense--and you may be using them already--the helpcomes from the details about how to use the SETS more effectivelyand how to extend or vary different activities. Even if you do nothave the time to appreciate the theory presented in the firstsections of the book, the SET examples alone make this bookvaluable for novice and experienced educators alike."--Laura L. Carruth, Neuroscience Institute, Georgia StateUniversity, for CBE--Life Sciences Education, Vol. 11,135-136, Summer 2012
Keeping students involved, motivated, and actively learning ischallenging educators across the country, yet good advice on how toaccomplish this has not been readily available. Student EngagementTechniques is a comprehensive resource that offers college teachersa dynamic model for engaging students and includes over one hundredtips, strategies, and techniques that have been proven to helpteachers from a wide variety of disciplines and institutionsmotivate and connect with their students. The ready-to-use formatshows how to apply each of the book's techniques in the classroomand includes purpose, preparation, procedures, examples, onlineimplementation, variations and extensions, observations and advice, and key resources.
„Given the current and welcome surge of interest in improvingstudent learning and success, this guide is a timely and importanttool, sharply focused on practical strategies that can reallymatter.“
? Kay McClenney, director, Center for Community College StudentEngagement, Community College Leadership Program, the University ofTexas at Austin
"This book is a 'must' for every new faculty orientation program; it not only emphasizes the importance of concentrating on whatstudents learn but provides clear steps to prepare and execute anengagement technique. Faculty looking for ideas to heighten studentengagement in their courses will find usefultechniques that can beadopted, adapted, extended, or modified.„
? Bob Smallwood, cocreator of CLASSE (Classroom Survey of StudentEngagement) and assistant to the provost for assessment, Office ofInstitutional Effectiveness, University of Alabama
“Elizabeth Barkley's encyclopedia of active learning techniques(here called SETs) combines both a solid discussion of the researchon learning that supports the concept of engagement and real-lifeexamples of these approaches to teaching in action."
? James Rhem, executive editor, The National Teaching & LearningForum
„Given the current and welcome surge of interest in improvingstudent learning and success, this guide is a timely and importanttool, sharply focused on practical strategies that can reallymatter.“
? Kay McClenney, director, Center for Community College StudentEngagement, Community College Leadership Program, the University ofTexas at Austin
"This book is a 'must' for every new faculty orientation program; it not only emphasizes the importance of concentrating on whatstudents learn but provides clear steps to prepare and execute anengagement technique. Faculty looking for ideas to heighten studentengagement in their courses will find usefultechniques that can beadopted, adapted, extended, or modified.„
? Bob Smallwood, cocreator of CLASSE (Classroom Survey of StudentEngagement) and assistant to the provost for assessment, Office ofInstitutional Effectiveness, University of Alabama
“Elizabeth Barkley's encyclopedia of active learning techniques(here called SETs) combines both a solid discussion of the researchon learning that supports the concept of engagement and real-lifeexamples of these approaches to teaching in action."
? James Rhem, executive editor, The National Teaching & LearningForum