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Attention

How can your class engage and keep students’ interest?

• Find ways to hook your students into the material, such as posting interesting visual examples or startling facts.
• Ask a question or pose a problem, like a mystery that needs solving. Students’ curiosity and desire for an answer will help sustain their attention.
• Mix it up

• : vary the activities, visuals, and pacing of each module.

Relevance

How can your class fit what students want and need

?

• Help students set goals that align with the skills they are

• developing in class, such as getting and keeping a job.
• Raise students’ awareness about their learning styles and the ways they learn best.

• Ex: Do they work most efficiently with in-class activities that are cooperative, competitive, or individual?

• Connect new material with information or skills that students already know

• . One good technique for doing this is Think-Pair-Share Activities.

Confidence

How can students feel successful even when

a task is difficult?

• Clarify what students are going to learn and how

• to measure success.

• Showing work from

• past students and

• using rubrics

• are excellent ways to do this.
• Build skill difficulty incrementally and allow for success at every stage. This can be as simple as an in-class task that focuses on developing

• skill in one procedure.
• Allow students some control over their learning. Let students choose some projects or contribute questions to an upcoming test

• .

Satisfaction

How can students’ satisfaction with their work spur even more learning

?

• Tie projects into real-life, professional contexts and inspire them further by showing them what expert artists and designers

• .

• Use positive feedback and rewards along with constructive criticism. Try sandwiching any negative feedback between positive comments.
• Make sure that grading is fair and consistent and check in with students individually

• throughout the semester to avoid unpleasant surprises at the end. Using Easy Grade Pro can help you track student progress and provide them clear, official results.