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Use these 5 strategies to boost student engagement

eSchool News

This year’s 9th most-read story focuses on instructional strategies for better student engagement. Student engagement has long been an indicator of growth and progress, and in the wake of the pandemic, it will prove essential for academic and social-emotional recovery. 1: Teacher-student relationships.

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Learning Through Play Is Powerful – and Students and Teachers Agree!

eSchool News

It is a powerful tool for teaching that naturally engages students in the learning and builds the skills they’ll need in and outside the classroom like creativity, communication, critical thinking, and collaboration. Once you see students engaged and learning through play, it clicks and the question goes from how to how do we add more?”

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A Simple Lesson Structure for Fostering Student Engagement #engaginglitminds

Reading By Example

Beginning dialogic engagement in the classroom simply requires getting children invested in an issue they can relate to and on which they have different perspectives and helping them engage each other’s perspectives. Engaging Literate Minds, pg. Last week our school surveyed almost 100 families about remote instruction.

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How to Bring Back the Arts and Boost Academic Achievement Through STEAM Curriculum

Waterford

8] And as standardized tests are used to evaluate both student and teacher performance, more time that was once spent on the arts is diverted to subjects that students are tested on. Over four million elementary school children receive no visual arts lessons in the classroom.[6] 5 Creative Art Activities for Elementary Students.

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Scaling-up high-dosage tutoring is crucial to students’ academic success

eSchool News

Current implementation efforts While more than 80 percent of schools offer at least one type of tutoring in the 2022-23 school year, the modes and student participation levels vary. 23 Estimates suggest districts must spend between $1,200 and $2,500 per student each year to provide high-dosage tutoring effectively.

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Education Transformation: Assessing the Downfalls and Crafting Solutions for US Education

Evelyn Learning

Schools need to cultivate students’ life skills, critical thinking, emotional intelligence, and resilience to prepare them for real-world challenges. Graph Highlight : A survey reveals that schools emphasizing holistic education witness a surge in student engagement and overall well-being. SOURCE: U.S.

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Initial Findings After Implementing Digital Student Portfolios in Elementary Classrooms

Reading By Example

We used three strategies to assess growth from fall to spring: Instructional walk trends, student engagement surveys, and digital student portfolios. Engagement surveys: Reading, specifically self-concept as a reader, the importance of reading, and sharing our reading lives. Some older students regressed.