Active and engaged classrooms

Keeping students involved.

Teaching Aptitude5 questions

Signs of an engaged classroom

Students ask questions, discuss, solve problems, make things and reflect. The teacher talks less and the learners do more of the thinking.

Strategies

Short activities, questioning, hands-on tasks, real-world problems, choices, movement and varied pace. Changing activity every 10–15 minutes helps maintain attention.

Practice questions

Which is the clearest sign of an engaged classroom?	Easy
To keep attention in a long period, a teacher should:	Easy
Linking a percentages lesson to discounts in a local market makes learning:	Easy
In an active classroom, most of the thinking is done by:	Medium
Giving students a choice of how to present a project mainly increases:	Medium

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