Roundtable: Fostering Student Engagement

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

• 63. Professional Development

Chair

• Dilara Canfeda Hekimci, University of Miami

Participants

• Shawn Erik Schooley, Minnesota State University, Mankato

• Elizabeth I Dorssom, Lincoln University, Missouri

• Ana Abraham, Mount Holyoke College

• Michelle Fletcher, Salisbury University

• James Simeone, Illinois Wesleyan University

• Christopher Burdett, Virginia Commonwealth University