Key to Student Engagement is Outreach

The comment that caught my attention from the second assigned reading of Student Engagement Techniques was from chapter 6, “From Theory to Practice”. The quote is “[y]ou have to reach out to students. You can’t wait for them to reach out to you. The good students always have and always will reach out, but the struggling students don’t know how to make the first move.”…

Spacing and Interleaving

Brenda Murray’s instruction strategy is spacing and interleaving. Click on the window below to watch it. Spacing is strategy to help student remember information. It is uses the concept of  repetition with time in between each attempt as a way of increasing students recall of material. It is a strategy I use with my students. In class they do problems, then they they are assigned…