Five Paths of Student Engagement: Blazing the Trail to Learning and Success (Your Guide to Promoting Active Engagement in the Classroom and Improving Student Learning)

Product Description
This is a breakthrough book on student engagement. Join Dennis Shirley and Andy Hargreaves, two award-winning authors and leaders in their field, on a profound educational quest that will take you through exciting and challenging terrain. Five Paths of Student Engagement will open your eyes, heart, and mind and empower you to implement practices that lead directly to your students' well-being, learning, and success.
By integrating psychological and sociological perspectives, and using inspiring examples from seven years of research, this book delves deeply into the what, why, and how of student engagement. It reveals who and what the true enemies of student engagement are, and shows you how to defeat them. It will enrich and reward your work for years to come.
Utilize research-based strategies to promote active engagement in the classroom and build the foundation for student growth:
Learn why active engagement is the new frontier of student achievement.
Understand how engaging students means so much more than defeating boredom.
Consider psychological and sociological theories that cast new light on engagement and motivation.
Reflect on how engagement is about mystery and magic, meaning and purpose, and focus and mastery.
Understand why increasing classroom engagement requires much more than surveys, rubrics and observation protocols.
Learn strategies to battle all five enemies of engagement in order to engage students totally and motivate unmotivated students.
Explore five clear paths of engagement that lead to improving student learning and success that all teachers and schools can embark upon immediately.
Contents: Preface Chapter 1: From Achievement to Engagement--Two Ages of Educational Change Chapter 2: Theories of Engagement and Motivation--From Maslow to Flow Chapter 3: Three Myths of Engagement--Relevance, Technology, and Fun Chapter 4: The Five Enemies of Engagement--How to Defeat Them Chapter 5: Standardized Testing--The Archenemy of Engagement Chapter 6: The Five Pathways of Student Engagement--In Theory and Practice Chapter 7: The Promise of Engagement and the Battle for Change References Index
Review
"In the recent past, well-motivated educational policymakers sought to install more ambitious curricula and secure higher student performances. But they left out a crucial variable: sustained student engagement. In this original, provocative, and engaging book, Dennis Shirley and Andy Hargreaves synthesize fundamental ideas from the social sciences and draw as well on their practical experiences around the world. Readers will come to understand how to nurture students who desire to learn and succeed in doing so."
--Howard Gardner, Hobbs Research Professor of Cognition and Education, Harvard Graduate School of Education
"In this important new book, Shirley and Hargreaves remind us of something that education policy has for too long ignored: academic engagement is the vital pathway to higher student achievement. This book not only provides clear examples of how to get students engaged in learning, it also explores the research behind the different dimensions of engagement itself. For educators and researchers who seek greater clarity on how to improve student academic outcomes and performance, this book will be an invaluable resource."
--Pedro A. Noguera, dean, Rossier School of Education, University of Southern California
"With Five Paths of Student Engagement, Shirley and Hargreaves have given us not just food for thought, but fuel for action. Their analysis reminds us why student engagement is an educational must-have and cogently lays out the policies, like overemphasis on standardized testing, that can undermine it. As we reimagine learning beyond COVID, I'm grateful to have this clear articulation of the paths to engagement along with the recognition that teachers' judgment and students' voices are key to all of them."
--Randi Weingarten, president, American Federation