Educators can improve engagement and encourage students to lean into their voice by providing opportunities for them to lead a classroom exercise, education professors say. This could include drawing up a word problem in math, for example, or creating a writing prompt.
Doing this can spur a stronger understanding of concepts for the leading student and more relatable classwork for their peers, but teachers must also be intentional in how they tee up such an assignment, according to experts at Stanford, Harvard and Northwestern.
Denise Clark Pope, senior lecturer at Stanford University’s Graduate School of Education, has done research showing that more than half of students are typically not fully engaged in class. Read more in the full article!
