Student Engagement

These pages provide help with fostering active learning and student engagement, including  teaching tips, techniques, and articles, as well as professional literature in the LTC print book collection.

The 4 Connections

The 4 Connections are a set of strategies to build connections, a sense of belonging, and supportive relationships with students, and their use appears to correlate with both increased pass rates and a narrowed equity gap around pass rates.

High-Impact Practices

High-impact educational practices refer, specifically, to a group of eleven educationally purposeful practices that according to a growing body of research correlate with positive educational results for students from varied backgrounds

Instructor-Student Interaction

Studies show a sense of caring encourages students to persist.  Learn about ways to interact effectively with students, such inviting student questions, responding to students quickly, and soliciting and incorporating student feedback.

Student-Student Interaction

Learn ways to provide learning activities that invite students to engage with each other,  a key way to foster active learning.

Active Learning

In an active learning classroom, students are engaging with the material, participating in the class, and collaborating with each other. Don’t expect your students simply to listen and memorize; instead, have them help demonstrate a process, analyze an argument, or apply a concept to a real-world situation.