How can we foster student engagement in the classroom--making reading and writing about literature an exciting enterprise? This session explores how to create dynamic classrooms proposing that, as students do more and more work online, the in-person and in-real-time space of the classroom can be harnessed for new forms of engaged learning.

Specific strategies for active classroom exercises and investigates how those exercises can be sequenced in a meaningful and purposeful way will be discussed. The speaker will also review familiar forms of student engagement, such as small group work, and discuss how to generate new types of student engagement, such as classroom exhibitions.

This session will explore how to employ a pedagogy built around engaging classrooms: how can we scaffold and sequence classroom exercises, how can we create activity portfolios, how can we build towards classroom-centered projects?

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Speakers

Dr. Cheryl Nixon, University of Massachusetts, Boston