Teachers have their own preferences and approach when it comes to classroom decor. But every teacher is designing their classroom with the same goal in mind: to create an engaging and welcoming space ...

Halfway through a 75-minute lecture, you look around the room to peer at other students’ laptops. Instead of pages of quickly scribbled notes, you will likely find laptop screens displaying text ...

As a teacher, I constantly wondered how to get students more engaged in my lessons. As an administrator, this question was the guiding force of my coaching. Student engagement can be tough to define ...

Students have changed, and instructors should reconsider their assumptions about what engagement means, Mary C. Kern and Terri R. Kurtzberg write. The higher education classroom has undergone a ...

We teachers can never get enough ways to help create the classroom conditions for students to motivate themselves. This post kicks off a series sharing lots of ideas, and today’s contributors also ...

Technology provides instant accessibility to information, which is why its presence in the classroom is so vital. Smart phones, computers, and tablets are already an omnipresent element of everyday ...

The UA opened the Office of Student Engagement in order to help UA President Ann Weaver Hart’s new university-wide initiative. One of the main focuses of the initiative is to maintain an environment ...

Traumatic experiences can have ripple effects that permeate across many aspects of people's lives. For students, adverse childhood experiences have been shown to impact attention, memory, language ...

Mike Kaechele is a middle school teacher and PBL consultant who believes in student-centered learning that gives kids authentic opportunities to do real work with local community partners. His recent ...