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Engaging Students


How can you keep students in your classes engaged? What happens when you make your classes as interesting and relevant as possible, but that still doesn’t work? Daniel T. Willingham, the well-known cognitive psychologist, will describe how research into the choices that people make can be fruitfully applied to your classroom to engage your students.

Willingham is professor of psychology at the University of Virginia and author of the book Why Don’t Students Like School? A Cognitive Scientist Answers Questions About How the Mind Works and What It Means for The Classroom.

His talk about engaging students will be followed by a free-flowing discussion of that and other teaching issues, especially those addressed in the book, on June 10, 2011, at MCC. The event will take place from 8:30 a.m. to noon in the Warshof Conference Center, Monroe A & B. The event is sponsored by the Teaching & Creativity Center, the Vice President for Academic Affairs, and the Deans.

All faculty and staff are invited. RSVP by following this link:<
https://web.monroecc.edu/TCC/events>.

Gene Marino
Transitional Studies
04/13/2011