Hacking Engagement: 50 Tips & Tools To Engage Teachers and Learners Daily (Hack Learning Series)

Sturtevant, James Alan

ISBN 10: 0986104965 / ISBN 13: 9780986104961

Published by Times 10 Publications, 2016

Seller Inventory # 0986104965-3-33203280

Synopsis:

Do many of your students dislike your class or even hate learning?

In his first Hacking Engagement book, veteran classroom teacher, podcaster, and speaker James Alan Sturtevant shares 50 tips and tools to engage every learner in every class. With these 50 grab-and-go hacks you'll learn how inspire students to participate daily, how to encourage learners to engage both with and without technology and, best of all, how to make kids love learning.

Boring lessons and assignments will disappear forever when you learn to build student avatars, banish blandness, ride the podcast tide, and become a total engagement guru.

Many students are bored and disengaged

Teachers are handcuffed by outdated textbooks, standardized curriculum, and disinterested students. What if you could solve these problems immediately and excite even your most reluctant learner daily?

Read it Today and Engage tomorrow!

A 33-year teacher, Sturtevant makes it easy, with incredible teacher tips and tools for both the veteran and student teacher--50 engagement tools that you can begin using right now, with no special training or boring professional development.

Easily rebrand your class and connect with all students

Are you the teacher students "hate"? Do kids groan when they walk into your classroom? Engaging learners is all about connecting and making education fun. With Sturtevant's education tips and creative teaching tools, students will rebrand you and your class as their favorites. Best of all, they'll engage with every lesson you teach, every single day!

50 Tips and Tools

Unlike other education books that weigh you down with archaic research and impossible-to-implement strategies, Hacking Engagement, the 7th book in the popular Hack Learning Series, provides 50 unique, exciting, and actionable tips and tools that you can apply right now. And there's something here for every teacher--no matter what grade or subject you teach. Try one of these amazing engagement strategies tomorrow:

1. Engage the Enraged
2. Create Celebrity Couple Nicknames
3. Hash out a Hashtag
4. Empower Students to Help You Uncover Your Biases
5. Avoid the Great War on Yoga Pants
6. Let Your Freak Flag Fly
7. Become a Proponent of the Exponent
8. Trade Blah, Blah, Blah for Zen
9. Transform Your Class into a Focus Group

How to teach better

Try at least one tip or tool now and witness an amazing transformation in your classroom and school. You can be a better teacher immediately.

Are you ready to engage?

Scroll up and grab your copy of Hacking Engagement now.

About the Author: James Alan Sturtevant has taught in Delaware County, in Central Ohio, for over three decades. His first book, You’ve Gotta Connect, details how teachers can build essential relationships with students. He has appeared on many popular podcasts and authored guest posts on Edutopia, the Huffington Post, and Principal Leadership. Sturtevant remains committed to helping teachers forge strong relationships with kids, but his true passion is student engagement. With his new book and podcast, Hacking Engagement, he helps educators create classrooms and schools that captivate kids and empower them to learn.

Bibliographic Details

Title: Hacking Engagement: 50 Tips & Tools To ...
Publisher: Times 10 Publications
Publication Date: 2016
Binding: paperback
Condition: Good