The Engaged Classroom

Resource Keywords:
Classroom Practice

Publication Type:

Web Article

Authors:

Intrator, Sam M.

Year of Publication:

2005

URL:

http://www.ascd.org/portal/site/ascd/template.MAXIMIZE/menuitem.459dee00...

Abstract:

Researcher Sam Intrator spent 130 days shadowing students in a diverse California high school because he believed that "the truest and most accurate way I can learn about the way teaching and learning happen in high schools is to experience what adolescents experience throughout a school day." Intrator, a veteran high school and college teacher, focused on two central questions: "What is happening in students' heads and hearts as they experience school?" and "What characterizes classroom episodes during which students become wholly engaged and energized, finding genuine meaning in academic experiences?" Intrator shares what he learned in this article, selected by the editors of Educational Leadership as one of the best of 2004-05. Among his findings: While many students were suffering from extreme passivity in class, teachers who were "relentlessly attuned to the attention-scape of their classroom" offered an effective "anti-boredom pedagogy."

Intrator, Sam M. 2005. The Engaged Classroom. Best of Educational Leadership 2004 -2005. Retrieved June 2, 2008 from http://www.ascd.org/portal/site/ascd/template.MAXIMIZE/menuitem.459dee008f99653fb85516f762108a0c/?javax.portlet.tpst=d5b9c0fa1a493266805516f762108a0c_ws_MX&javax.portlet.prp_d5b9c0fa1a493266805516f762108a0c_journaltypeheaderimage=%2FASCD%2Fimages%2Fmultifiles%2Fpublications%2Felmast.gif&javax.portlet.prp_d5b9c0fa1a493266805516f762108a0c_viewID=article_view&javax.portlet.prp_d5b9c0fa1a493266805516f762108a0c_journalmoid=28d1525b32f55010VgnVCM1000003d01a8c0RCRD&javax.portlet.prp_d5b9c0fa1a493266805516f762108a0c_articlemoid=9002525b32f55010VgnVCM1000003d01a8c0RCRD&javax.portlet.prp_d5b9c0fa1a493266805516f762108a0c_journalTypePersonalization=ASCD_EL&javax.portlet.begCacheTok=token&javax.portlet.endCacheTok=token