Roundtable: Teaching: Fostering Engagement - Strategies for a Dynamic Classroom

Session Submission Type: Roundtable

Brief Overview

Keeping students engaged in the classroom is essential for fostering a dynamic and productive learning environment. Accomplishing this, however, can be incredibly challenging in today’s classroom. This roundtable will articulate strategies for increasing student participation, motivation, and active learning across a variety of classroom settings. Panelists will discuss techniques that they have learned or discovered, such as using technology, incorporating collaborative activities, integrating real-world events and examples, and promoting critical thinking through innovative approaches to discussion.

Section

• Professional Development / Professional Development

Chair

• Marissa Grayson, University of Alabama Tuscaloosa

Participants

• Elizabeth I Dorssom, Lincoln University - Missouri

• Daniel Ignacio Pedreira, Florida International University

• Greg Sasso, The University of Chicago

• Lindsay Hoffman, University of Delaware

• Issam Abu-Ghallous, DeVry University

• Christopher Burdett, Virginia Commonwealth University

• Vivian Ike, Syracuse University