Full Description
The Soul of the Schoolhouse: Cultivating Student Engagement's primary focus is to help readers understand the many, diverse factors that make up engaged learning and students' motivation to learn. The authors acknowledge the importance of cognitive aspects of education and the techniques that skilled educators use to enhance the learning process; such information is contained in chapters on motivation and models of thinking about how to engage those in our schools. This tome also reflects the essential and interrelated nature of emotional, social, spiritual, and relational elements of engagement in the learning process. As such, chapters of this book cover such topics as educational leadership for engaged learning, school-community connections, co-curricular activities, models of curriculum design, and school law and policies that bolster student learning, as well.
Contents
Acknowledgement
Preface
Chapters
1.Models of Student Engagement: Understanding Why It Matters
2.Meaningful Administrative Practices: Actions and Programs that Facilitate Adult and Student Engagement
3.Building a Culture of Connection: Bringing Schools, Families and Communities Together
4.Potency of Effective Curriculum: Designing Lessons and Programs to Maximize Student Participation
5.Beyond Quality Teaching: Athletic and other Co-Curricular Programs that Enhance the School Experience
6.School Law and Policies that Facilitate Student Learning: Setting the Stage for Success
References
About the Authors
