Ignite Your Students’ Curiosity and Enthusiasm for Learning: What the Research Says Works

This edWeb podcast is sponsored by Exemplars.
The webinar recording can be accessed here.

Humans are born to be curious, explore their environments, ask questions, investigate mysteries, and solve problems. So, why are so many students presenting as disengaged and reluctant learners? Research has begun to provide educators with tangible shifts that can be made in our classrooms to ignite students’ curiosity and enthusiasm for learning as well as improve learning outcomes.

Bryan Goodwin, CEO of McREL, and Jay Meadows, CEO of Exemplars, unpack some of this research and explore how educators can inspire curiosity and engagement in our classrooms. Goodwin also dives into his latest book, The New Classroom Instruction that Works, the sequel to the incredibly popular Classroom Instruction that Works.

These lifelong educators investigate ways to:

• Spark student curiosity (with mystery, incongruities, puzzles, and controversy)
• Give students a WIIFM (what’s in it for me) for their learning
• Ask questions that get students to think about and make meaning in their learning (instead of just recalling their learning)
• Engage students in writing to learn (processing what they’ve learned through cognitive writing)
• Engage students in structured problem solving (connecting learning to the real world)

This edWeb podcast is of interest to K-12 teachers and school and district leaders.

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