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Increasing Student Engagement

Increasing Student Engagement

Course Description

This course provides strategies to help increase student engagement in the classroom. It offers strategies for educators hoping to learn how to get students engaged during class lessons. Those wishing to increase student engagement across the board are encouraged to enroll.

The course emphasizes lesson planning, teacher language, and class discussions. Taken together, these strategies help educators develop engaging lessons for their students. The end goal is to get students more excited about their own learning process, which in turn results in improved student learning.

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Course Numbers

Our improving student engagement course may be noted differently in various institutional syllabi. Below are two common course numbers for our Increasing Student Engagement course, for reference:

  • Adams State: ED 589
  • UMass Global: EDDU 9616

If in doubt about your institutional code for our course on how to get students engaged, go to the source. Contact your institution for precise codes on this increased student engagement coursework.

 

Course Learning Objectives

This is a course designed specifically to improve student engagement. It centers on real-world strategies for keeping students attentive and engaged. Educators who wish to boost student engagement in their own classrooms will find many practical techniques therein.

How to increase student engagement is all about intentionality in the classroom. Through Increasing Student Engagement coursework, students will be able to:

  • Learn strategies for lesson planning to develop more engaging lessons.
  • Use certain teacher language when speaking in the classroom to promote student engagement.
  • Learn and use strategies to plan and implement engaging classroom discussions and active learning moments.
  • Apply strategies to their planning, teacher language, and classroom discussions to increase and maintain student engagement.
  • Develop skills to reflect on & improve their own teaching methods and practices.

 

Relevancy to Practice: This course provides educators with the following relevant information to help improve their practice:

  • Understanding the concept of “flow” as the basis of truly being engaged and how that looks in the classroom to help engage learners.
  • Increasing and maintaining student engagement during lessons through effective lesson planning, teacher language, and class discussions.
  • Strategies to effectively plan lessons to make them more engaging for students.
  • Using specific teacher language to engage students with the content and maintain that engagement for better learning experiences.
  • Strategies to engage all students in whole class discussions, including strategically encouraging students to share and participate.
  • Evaluating and changing your current practices for engaging students in the classroom.

By the end of the course, students will better understand how to improve student engagement. Moreover, they will have gathered numerous strategies to implement in their own classrooms. Course students will understand how to help their students develop focus and sustain attention.

  • This coursework is appropriate for educators with a goal of increasing student engagement in higher education or secondary education.

Course Format 

This is an online course. Please use course materials emailed to you upon your original registration.

Increasing Student Engagement Syllabus

Click below for a preview syllabus for this course. This syllabus applies to students receiving credits from Adams State University or UMass Global or those taking the course for Continuing Education (no credits).

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You can cancel a course registration within 30-days and receive a 100% refund, no questions asked.

Registration Now Open: Register now and receive your course materials within 24 hours.  Course materials are due within 6 months of registering for the course.

Price:

Starting at $189.00

Credits:

3

Graduate Credits

*Pricing may not include University Fees. Select option to include fees.

University Fee

Course fee may or may not include the university’s registration fee depending on the university partner. University fees are not included in the registration fee for Adam’s State University and University of Massachusetts Global. 

Those additional fees are:
University of Massachusetts Global: $70/credit
Adam’s State University: $55/credit  

Instructions for how to register with your selected University Partner and pay additional fees will be provided after registering with Credits for Teachers.

University fees for Colorado State University Pueblo are included in the course fees. 

Please note that we cannot grant refunds for students who have already turned in work for a course, even if it is within the 30-day window.

Students are able to request a full refund of any Credits for Teachers course within 30 days of registration.  In order to do so, please fill out the “Contact Us” form including your full name and the course you registered for and we will complete the refund.

NOTE: Each university partner has their own refund policy that may differ from Credits for Teachers.  Please be sure to look at the refund policy of the university partner you choose to go with.

Students are able to exchange one course for another within 30 days of registration as long as the course price is the same and the student does not change the university Partner.  In order to exchange a course, please fill out the “Contact Us” form including your full name, course you have registered for and the course you would like to switch to.

Please note that we cannot exchange a course once for students who have already submitted their course for grading, even if it is within the 30-day window.

Students that would like to transfer their course from one university partner to another may have the opportunity to do so within the first 30 days of registering for a course.  In order to transfer your course to a different University Partner, please fill out the “Contact Us” form including your full name, the course you are currently registered for and the new University Partner you’d like to switch to.

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