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Engaging students in Chemistry (continued)
2. Berger Kaye Catherine (2017) Engaging teaching styles :
Student motivation comes from within when they are interested,
challenged and involved by engaging teaching styles
Retrieved from http://www.cbkassociates.com/wp-content/
uploads/2013/05/Engaging-teaching-Styles.pdf
through that engagement students are more likely to choose to
be motivated.”
Catherine Berger Kaye continues with some practical suggestions
for engagement including:
1. It is so important to look at the student, preferably eye contact
when answering a question. If appropriate, use their name;
this should be done in both oral and written feedback.
3. Goss, P., & Sonnermann, J. (2017). Engaging
students: Creating classrooms that improve learning.
Retrieved
from
https://grattan.edu.au/wp-content/
uploads/2017/02/Engaging-students-creating-classrooms-
that-improve-learning.pdf
2. Accurate image language – using positive simple, yet
accurate, terminology to describe a concept. We cannot
expect students to use terminology correctly if we don’t do it
ourselves.
4. Groves, R., & Welsh, B. (2010). The high school experience:
What students say. Issues in Educational Research, 20(2), 87-
104. Retrieved from http://www.iier.org.au/iier20/groves.pdf
3. Encourage students to explain a concept to their peers. This
has a number of benefits, including using language, reinforcing
concepts and their ideas in a meaningful sequence.
5. Goss, P., & Sonnermann, J. (2017). Engaging students: Creating
classrooms that improve learning. Retrieved from https://
grattan.edu.au/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/Engaging-
students-creating-classrooms-that-improve-learning.pdf
4. Definitions: in the sciences these are essential, and rather
than allow the students to develop a definition on their own, it
is preferable to analyse the definition, maybe get the students
to identify a number of definitions and then discuss which is
preferable, and why.
6. Groves, R., & Welsh, B. (2010). The high school experience:
What students say. Issues in Educational Research, 20(2), 87-
104. Retrieved from http://www.iier.org.au/iier20/groves.pdf
7. Murray, S., Michell, J., Gale, T., Edwards, J., & Zyngier, D.
(2004). Student disengagement from primary schooling: a
review of research and practice. Retrieved from http://www.
cassfoundation.org/2016/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/
StudentDisengagement.pdf
References:
1. Sterrey Bethany (2017) Problem Based learning
Retrieved from https://prezi.com/l9fdll8kvaet/problem-based-
learning/
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