1. Engaging students – challenge or joy?
Mari Karm
University of Tartu
Associate Professor of Higher Education Pedagogy

2. Student engagement Large classes Discussions Online courses Assessment
Group work

3. Active learning means that the mind is actively engaged
Active learning means that the mind is actively engaged. Its defining characteristics are that the students are dynamic participants in their learning and that they are reflecting on and monitoring both on nthe processes and the results of their learning.
An engaged student actively examines, questions and relates new ideas to old, thereby the kind of deep learning that lasts.
(Barkley, 2010: 17)

4. Please draw your professional development line!

5. Please mark on this line the point you started to engage students in active learning!
Please mark on this line the point you stopped to engage students in active learning!
Share your experiences in pairs – one minute + one minute

6. Study on novice university teachers’ teaching concepts and teaching practices
a qualitative, longitudinal study
two semi-structured interviews
the first interview - in the beginning of university teachers’ teaching career (about three years of teaching experience)
the second interview - 3 years later.

7. Challenge
Your example
Joy

8. How to turn some challenges into positive experiences?
Share learning objectives with your students
Pay attention to your course structure
Teach study skills
Give students choice (learning materials, learning activities)
Make learning visible (graphic organizers, CATs)
Build a sense of community in the class
Expect engagement
Organize a learning community with your colleagues

9. Engagement has been found positively associated with following outomes:
Students’ general abilities and critical thinking
Students’ level of cognitive development
Students’ self-esteem and identity formation
Students’ moral and ethical development
Students’ level of satisfaction with their course
Students’ academic performance
Students’ practice competencies and transferable skills
(Trowler, 2010)

10. Ashwin, P. et al (2015). Reflective Teaching in Higher Education
Ashwin, P. et al (2015). Reflective Teaching in Higher Education. London: Bloomsbury
Barkley, E. F. (2010). Student Engagement Techniques. A handbook for College Faculty. San Francisco: Jossey Bass Publishers
Bean, J.C (2001). Engaging Ideas. The professor’s Guide to Integrating Writing, Critical Thinking and Active Learning in tjhe Classroom. San Francisco: Jossey Bass Publishers
Trowler, V. (2010). Student Engagement Literature Review. York: Higher Education Academy

11. Thank you!