1. How to Engage Students

2. Strategies for engaging students’ attention and active participation
Ways to get attention
Ways to focus attention
Ways to keep attention
Ways to keep attention during seat work.

3. Ways to get attention
Seat students close to you for direct instruction
Model excitement
Generate discussion
Use mystery and playfulness
Establish a system of signaling cues:
Auditory cues
Visual signals
Routine phrases
Eye contact

4. Ways to focus attention
Incorporate presentations
Explain the purpose
Move around in the classroom
Project your voice
Teach thematically whenever possible
Incorporate visual techniques such as:
Color
Positioning students
Writing key words or pictures
Illustrating
Pointing to written material
Using overhead projector
Blockingunwanted material

5. Ways to keep attention Be well-prepared
Format lessons using a variety of questioning
Increase student responses
Vary the way you call upon students
Use higher-level questioning techniques
Ask students to write their best guess first
Utilize peer help such as the:
Pair-share format
Cooperative learning groups
Group or responses
Provide materials such as:
Individual journals
Pre-made response cards
Response fan
Partial outlines
Computer programs

6. Ways to keep attention during seat work
Give manageable amount of work
Check if students understand directions
Make sure supplies are available
Assign study buddies
Use private cues
Scan the class frequently
Provide examples for reference
Use behavior modification techniques

7. What happens when you try to engage students by floating a question during class? Silence? The same eager student anxious to answer? Most of the students not thinking about the question but just hoping that you won't call on them? What can we do to make students more actively engaged with the material during lecture in order to improve student learning?

8. Teaching Strategies The jigsaw technique The gallery walk
Effective discussion
Concept sketches
Case studies
Debates
Just-in-time teaching
Role Playing

9. The Jigsaw technique The Gallery Walk
Dividing students into groups, allowing them to learn about the topic, re-dividing into mixed groups, allowing each member to discuss their topic.
The Gallery Walk
Devising several questions/problems at a different table or at a different place on the walls. Students form as many groups as there are questions, and each group moves from question to question.

10. Effective Discussion Concept Sketches
Discussion is an excellent way to engage students in thinking and analyzing or in defending one side of an issue, rather than listening to lecture. Students must also respond to one another, rather than interacting intellectually only with the instructor.
Concept Sketches
Sketches or diagrams that are concisely annotated with short statements that describe the processes, concepts, and interrelationships shown in the sketch.

11. Debates
Case Studies
Debates force students to deal with complexity and "gray areas.“They can also help provide relevancy of course material to everyday issues. Debates also improve student's oral communication skills. 
Case Study: The presentation of students with a problem to solve that revolves around a story (the "case"). Good case studies give the students considerable latitude in deciding how to solve the problem.

12. Just-in-time teaching
A way of engaging students in course material before class and preparing them to come to class and participate actively during class.
Role-Playing
A well-constructed role-playing or simulation exercise can emphasize the real world and require students to become deeply involved in a topic.

13. As you enter a classroom ask yourself this question: "If there were no students in the room, could I do what I am planning to do?" If your answer to the question is yes, don't do it. Gen. Ruben Cubero, Dean of The Faculty, United States Air Force Academy

14. Good luck to you all!
Power to You!