Classroom Principles, Strategies, and Tools
Master teacher, education consultant, and national leader of LitLife Patricia Vitale-Reilly has a deep understanding of what engagement strategies look like and how to integrate them into classroom practice. “Regardless of age, grade level, geographic location, type of school, discipline, or curriculum, ” she writes, “A student needs to be engaged in his or her learning in order to excel and succeed.” In Engaging Every Learner, Patricia applies the research on motivation and engagement to strategies and tools that cultivate and sustain student engagement across the school year. She suggests a sequence for implementing the principles of teaching that lead to engaged classrooms, including: