Engaging Children: Igniting a Drive for Deeper Learning
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Heinemann
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Ellin Oliver Keene
What motivates us to learn? We all want our students to be engaged learners, but we often struggle with getting them excited about and responsible for their own learning.
In Engaging Children, Ellin Oliver Keene explores the question: What can I do to help students develop internal motivation or, better yet, engagement? She differentiates between compliance, participation, motivation, and engagement, showing how to help students take more responsibility for their learning. She also identifies four pillars of engagement and carefully details how each supports an environment where student-driven engagement becomes the norm.
Truly engaged children are more likely to remember and reapply what they learn—and become citizens who act on their learning for the betterment of the world. With Ellin’s guidance, you’ll discover how to help all children uncover their drive for deeper learning.
Authors
Ellin Oliver Keene
Ellin Oliver Keene is the author or coauthor of Talk About Understanding (2012); Comprehension Going Forward (2011); To Understand (2008); and Mosaic of Thought, Second Edition (2007), all published by Heinemann. She has been a classroom teacher, staff developer, and adjunct professor of reading and writing. For sixteen years she directed staff development initiatives at the Denver-based Public Education & Business Coalition. She served as Deputy Director of the Cornerstone Initiative at the University of Pennsylvania for 4 years, where she oversaw literacy and professional learning for teachers in high-poverty schools throughout the nation. She lives with her husband, David, and daughter, Elizabeth, in Denver and works with schools and districts around the country.
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Table of Contents
Chapter 1: Let Me Entertain You!
Chapter 2: All In: What It Means to Be Engaged
Chapter 3: An Invitation to Engagement: Conditions in the Engaged Classroom
Chapter 4: Pillars of Engaged Learning
Chapter 5: Intellectual Urgency
Chapter 6: Emotional Resonance
Chapter 7: Perspective Bending
Chapter 8: The Aesthetic World
Coda: Act
Appendix A: Building Independence: High-Impact Demonstrations
Appendix B: What Engagement Looks Like
Appendix C: Understanding and Engagement
Appendix D: Worth Remembering! Student Record-Keeping Form
Appendix E: Questions for Exploring Engagement Stories
Appendix F: Book Club Reflections
Appendix G: Essential Conditions for Engaged Learning
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