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Optimal learning environments to promote student engagement
Introduction: Towards Optimal Learning Environments in Schools -- Aims of Education Revisited (Einstein's E = MC2 of Education) -- The Nature of Engagement in Schools -- Measuring Student Engagement in High School Classrooms and What We Have Learned -- Engagement as an Individual Trait and Its Relationship to Achievement -- Connecting to "The How" of Classroom Engagement: Instruction and Optimal Learning Environments -- Connecting to "The Who": The Primacy of Supportive Relationships -- Connecting to "The What": Engaging Approaches to Traditional Subject Matter -- Engagement Beyond the Core Academic Subjects -- Models of Engaging Private Schools and the Case of Montessori Schools -- Alternative Public School Models -- Learning from Research on Youth Engagement During Out-of-School Time -- Model After-School Programs -- Technological Innovations on the Horizon -- Re-engineering the Schools of Tomorrow: Towards Community Sponsorship.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Advancing responsible adolescent development