Hacking Engagement: 50 Tips & Tools To Engage Teachers and Learners Daily

by James Alan Sturtevant

Are you ready to engage learners like never before?Boring lessons and assignments will disappear forever when you learn to build student avatars, banish blandness, ride the podcast tide, and become a total engagement guru.

Many students are bored and disengagedTeachers are handcuffed by outdated textbooks, standardized curriculum, and disinterested students. What if you could solve these problems immediately and excite even your most reluctant learners daily?

Read it Today and Engage tomorrow!33-year veteran teacher, author, presenter, and engagement guru James Alan Sturtevant makes it easy, with incredible teacher tips and tools for both the veteran and student teacher--50 engagement tools that you can begin using right now, with no special training or boring professional development.

Easily rebrand your class and connect with all studentsAre you the teacher students "hate"? Do kids groan when they walk into your classroom? Engaging learners is all about connecting and making education fun. With Sturtevant's education tips and creative teaching tools, students will rebrand you and your class as their favorites. Best of all, they'll engage with every lesson you teach, every single day!

50 Tips and ToolsUnlike other education books that weigh you down with archaic research and impossible-to-implement strategies, Hacking Engagement, the 7th book in the popular Hack Learning Series, provides 50 unique, exciting, and actionable tips and tools that you can apply right now. And there's something here for every teacher--no matter what grade or subject you teach. Try one of these amazing engagement strategies

Engage the EnragedCreate Celebrity Couple NicknamesHash out a HashtagEmpower Students to Help You Uncover Your BiasesAvoid the Great War on Yoga PantsLet Your Freak Flag FlyBecome a Proponent of the ExponentTrade Blah, Blah, Blah for ZenTransform Your Class into a Focus GroupCommit to EngagementTry at least one tip or tool now and witness an amazing transformation in your classroom and school.

Are you ready to engage?Scroll up and grab your copy of Hacking Engagement now.

Genres: Education, Teaching

211 pages, Kindle Edition

Published October 5, 2016

Reviews

[Alison · Rating 4 out of 5]

My top five favorite instructional strategies he mentioned are as follows:
1) QR codes
2) Solve a Mystery
3) Virtual bulletin board (Padlet)
4) Survey
5) using Google

Some of the strategies are things I already use, so it wasn't always new information to me. Also, since I teach lower level students in middle school, some of the ideas were more developmentally appropriate for high school, which is the level the author teaches. Finally, not all ideas could be easily adapted to math, but I can also be creative and try to figure them out for my students. As with any professional development related to education, you've always got to adapt it to what best meets your kids' needs.

[Stella Pollard · Rating 5 out of 5]

As someone who listens to the Hacking Engagement Podcast, I was super excited to read this book. James is a high school teacher, but I found I could implement many of these hacks with my middle school students. I did find a couple of hacks to be a little repetitive but overall I enjoyed this book.

I would highly recommend this for HS and MS teachers, but not for elementary teachers.

[Simon Winquist · Rating 4 out of 5]

Fun book to read. Quick and applicable strategies for engaging your students. Sure some seem a bit silly, but he sounds like a fun teacher. Some good ideas and names of the different methods.

Also reinforced methods I already use such as google, survey monkey, Cornell notes and ways to improve them.

High school oriented but applicable to any teacher.

[Carrie G · Rating 3 out of 5]

This book was fine. It was our mandatory staff read this year, so not something that I picked for myself. Some tips were helpful, some were not. Nothing revelatory for me, but there were a few good reminders.

[Laurie · Rating 5 out of 5]

Loved practical “What to Do Tomorrow” sections!

[Trish O'donnell-bruwelheid · Rating 5 out of 5]

Swift solutions for everyday problems. Well done.

I am inspired to try a few of these ideas.
If nothing else, it gets the creative juices flowing! Worth the time to read.

[Jeanine · Rating 4 out of 5]

Great gem of a book full of engagement hacks for the classroom!

[Cindy Wise · Rating 4 out of 5]

lots of great ideas to get kids engaged in the learning process...many of the hacks have to do with developing relationships with students. The rest are good instructional ideas to keep kids interested. Some are for the teachers...to keep us interested. Try one...then try another. Like potato chips...you might not be able to stop

[Jen Andrews · Rating 3 out of 5]

As a middle school teacher I found many of these ideas to be less applicable to my classroom, and many of them are already common practice. However there were a few new ideas I hope to implement, and the easy to follow, concise format was fabulous.

[James · Rating 5 out of 5]

Fantastic!

Great resource for teachers at any stage of their career! It's never too late to try something new and apply fun and engaging ideas in the classroom!

[Deanne Smith · Rating 5 out of 5]

If you are a teacher, you need this book! It is full of engaging, relevant, practical ideas to make your classroom a place students love to be!