Heather Lyon

Student engagement . . . Everyone says it, but what does that mean? It's very easy for one person to say a lesson is engaging while another person might view that same lesson as disengaging. Tech companies promise to "engage students" and "measure student engagement" when they are really only measuring the number of minutes students spend online. Some or all of those students, however, may have been bored out of their minds. Despite the ubiquitous use of the word engagement, there is little to no agreement on what that word means. Alice Keeler and Heather Lyon know a few important things about engagement: The first is that do not teach. The second key is that it's only when people are interested or absorbed that they are really engaged. So how do you create tasks that students want to do? That's where the fifty strategies that the engagement and Google tools experts share here come in. This book is full of templates, tips, tricks, and hacks for shifting engagement levels from disengaged to engaged using tools everyone can try. Learn how to use: Google Docs and Slides as collaboration toolsSpreadsheets in ways that are fun and creative. Google Classroom to recognize students as individuals Google Forms to quickly see where students are struggling.

If you are a student-teacher, teaching assistant, teacher, coach, staff developer, and/or administrator and you're looking for a strategy book to build engagement, The BIG Book of Engagement Strategies was designed for you This book has over fifty strategies that you can use tomorrow with students (alright-some of them will require a little more prep, but you get the gist). What's more, though many of the strategies in this book use a specific content area or grade level for an example, most can be easily modified no matter the age or ability of the students you work with or the content area that you teach thanks, in part, to the contributions of over fifteen educators who shared twenty different strategies The BIG Book of Engagement Strategies and its predecessor, Engagement is Not a Unicorn (It's a Narwhal), are premised on the idea that it is possible to achieve the highest levels of engagement in schools even if reaching that level has previously been seen as mythical. Highly engaged classrooms do exist, but many people have never seen it, some don't even believe it's possible because they can't even imagine it, and still others think they've achieved it even when they haven't. In schools, absorption (the highest form of engagement) would look like student-driven environments where students initiate the learning and are intrinsically compelled to learn. They want to keep at it after the bell rings. After the lesson is over. After the unit is done. Even if they weren't getting graded. It's out there, but it's a narwhal. Engagement is Not a Unicorn (It's a Narwhal) aimed to shine a light on the mysterious educational narwhal by explaining what engagement is and is not in order to grow as many narwhals in your school as possible. The BIG Book of Engagement Strategies aims to provide you with even more strategies to achieve that same outcome. Please visit Heather Lyon's website www. LyonsLetters.com to access even more resources from this book and while you're there check out Heather Lyon's other book, Engagement is Not a Unicorn (It's a Narwhal).

Despite the fact that unicorns are not real, you undoubtedly know what a unicorn is. Despite the fact that narwhals ARE real, you may not know what a narwhal is. In schools, we think that engagement at the highest level like it's a unicorn-something we've heard of, but know isn't real. We should be thinking of engagement in schools as a narwhal-something that we may not know much about, but is absolutely real and can be found right in your own school In this book, Heather Lyon creates a common understanding of what engagement looks and sounds like so that anyone can design and gauge instruction using this understanding. More importantly, with this knowledge educators can make changes to instruction to truly increase student engagement.

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