Looking for classroom ideas to increase student engagement? Student engagement is all about encouraging connection and participation as you navigate new learning experiences. We’ve collected our top 5 classroom guides to help you create an atmosphere that fosters student engagement — and most importantly, skill development.
Using Scenario-Based Learning to Explore Careers
Scenario-based learning is a fun and engaging strategy for helping students learn concepts and make lasting connections with classroom material. This free scenario-based learning guide provides classroom ideas that will help you encourage career exploration, build creative scenarios for lessons, provide ideas for implementation, and promote student reflection.
Classroom Ideas to Help Students Develop Empathy Toward Older Adults
Empathy and sensitivity towards older adults are essential skills for future health care workers. This guide helps you find innovative ways for teaching geriatric sensitivity and empathy by creating empathy baselines, enjoying activities with older adults, researching geriatric careers, simulating geriatric experiences, and reviewing core concepts with student reflection.
Hydroponics: Know How to Grow
Hydroponics is a method of growing plants in water without the use of soil. Schools love the cross-department collaboration opportunities hydroponics allows for as it often leads to STEM, plant science, culinary and horticulture lessons. This free guide gives you classroom ideas for using hydroponics to increase student engagement, healthy eating, career exploration, and more.
5 Ideas for Incorporating Soft Skills into any classroom
Soft skills are great for any classroom and any subject. But where do you start? This guide is intended to support classroom training and give you ideas for incorporating soft skills lessons into your classroom today. Whatever career path your students chose, practicing soft skills with role-playing, collaboration, feedback, flexibility, and discussion will foster a better understanding of the skills they’ll need to succeed.
5 Free Lessons for Any Introductory Trade Skills Class
Skilled trade careers are in high demand, and opportunities for success in these careers abound. Introducing students to fundamental trade skills, including measurement math basics, electrical wiring principals, welding safety concepts, PPE and soft skills are great steps towards exposing them to potential careers. Use these classroom ideas to address common concepts in trades careers, explore job opportunities and teach fundamental skills.
NEW: 5 Lessons to Incorporate Social-Emotional Learning Into the Classroom
Social-Emotional Learning (SEL) is an academic term that defines how young adults process, regulate, manage and share their emotions. Use the five lessons in this free guide to address the core competencies of Social-Emotional Learning in your Family & Consumer Sciences or health science classroom. The classroom ideas and resources chosen for this guide focus on relatable, real-life decisions.
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