Tips to have better student engagement in class for tutors

It is very much important to catch and keep students' focus; whether at the starting or midway through class. So to energies the students for effective learning in the class it is very important to follow some warm up activities at the beginning part of the session that make students feel relief, reduce their stress and can make themselves ready for the session learning with fresh mind.

Some activities also can be followed by educator that can increase the interest of student in subject the educator going to make them learn for which they can use different teaching and learning material to keep student’s interest in learning. And also incorporate academic games into lessons by which the students can relate it to practical situation and can remember it for a longer time period.

The work of education is troublesome, yet it is truly important to keep students cognitively engaged. It starts with picking up and keeping their attention and interest. Once we have that attention and interest, what we do with it will have the effect with arriving at our instructional objectives.

Using Questioning Strategies That Make All Students Think and Answer. It is the same situation of numerous classrooms that the instructor asks questions and, always, the same reliable hands raise up. This pattern lends itself to learner inattention. So some attention catching activities can be followed by the educator for students’ engagement during question answer session. So it is important to incorporate some questions you require every student to reply. Find a question you know everyone can address basically, and have the class react at the same time.

The educator can ask students to put a finger up when they're ready to answer, and once they all do, ask them to whisper the answer at the count of three. Encourage shy students to speak. Protect the soft-spoken and encourage shy students to speak. Don’t permit long-winded or loud students to command the classroom discussion.

Approach the individuals who don't talk much so everyone is heard from. There are some students who are shy and hated to come to the front of the class to talk. At the same time these types of students are excellent students and wanted to defeat their fear of public speaking. So it’s better to worked out an arrangement with these types of students to permit them, for the first few times, to present from their seat instead of coming to the front of the class.

This helped the students to improve and made great progress talking in class. An alternate thought is to ask a question and give the students couple of time this allows learners to formulate their thoughts before the discussion begins. 

Students enjoy problem-solving with their companions. When controversy is not too strong, it can update learning by adding excitement and fun into classroom activities. Incorporate organized debates and group rivalries to enhance student achievement.

"Encourage students to voice their opinions as you may never know what you can learn from your students." "If the educator reveals to students that they are confident in the abilities of learners and has a welcoming and well-spirited personality towards them, learners feel more capable of doing the things we couldn't do. Students are more engaged when they feel they are in a "partnership" with their educator."

Incorporate peer review is also an important task. When students make presentations, which they should do frequently it’s very effective to encourage peer review. By allowing students to teach each other and to learn from each other. It engages them more than the educator doing a solo act.

At the ending of the session a very effective activity of summarization can be used. In this activity students are given time of ten minutes to answer four things they have learned, three interesting things and two questions they have about the lesson. Allow time to share their findings with a companion. Let learners know at the beginning of the session that they will need to write down three things they learned.

And when students themselves choose the assignments, project directions, and more would engage students with studies after teaching hours also.

"Giving students choices helps us utilize qualities and provide freedom to make a project the way we want it to. When we do something we like, we're more focused and enjoy learning more." 

At the same time it is equally important for the educator to ask early for feedback from students. Three possible questions to ask are: What is helping you learn in this class? How much you are satisfied with the teaching and learning method of the educator? What are your suggestions for the rest of the semester? And provide students a leisurely ten minutes of silence to write their answers. It is effective to repeat this exercise about two months into the class. It will provide valuable information about what is and is not working, allowing you to change, modify or tweak what you are doing.

And as a result report over to the class on the things you learned from the feedback and the changes you intend to make. Make it clear that you invite open and productive feedback from learners and make sure you implement the changes you promise to make. This activity will empower students and send the message that you care about how they are doing in the course, and that you are open to making changes for their benefit.

Are there any other ideas you use or can suggest for better student engagement? Please share them in the comments space below.