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Increasing Student Engagement

Increasing Student Engagement

Course Description

This course provides strategies to help increase student engagement in the classroom.  With an emphasis on lesson planning, teacher language, and class discussions, the strategies offered in this course help educators develop engaging lessons for their students.  The end goal is to get students more excited about their own learning, which in turn results in improved student learning.

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Course Numbers

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

 

Course Learning Objectives

Students will be able to:

  • Students will learn strategies for lesson planning to develop more engaging lessons.
  • Students will use certain teacher language when speaking in the classroom to promote student engagement.
  • Students will learn and use strategies to plan and implement engaging classroom discussions.
  • Students will be able to apply strategies to their planning, teacher language and classroom discussions to increase and maintain student engagement.
  • Students will develop skills to reflect on & improve their own teaching 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.
  • Strategies to engage all students in whole class discussions.
  • Evaluating and changing your current practices for engaging students in the classroom.

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).

No-Risk Guarantee: 

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.

Refunds Policy

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.

Exchange Policy

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.

Transfer Policy

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.