Classroom Engagement Quotes

The education process is moving beyond the traditional classroom/lecture setting. More and more teachers are seeking tools and techniques to engage their classes and enrich their lessons. Video calling is one of these tools, as it removes barriers to communication and lets students move beyond the boundaries of their classrooms.

From all these facts there emerges a very simple abstract program for the teacher to follow in keeping the attention of the child: Begin with the line of his native interests, and offer him objects that have some immediate connection with these.

The truth of the matter is that about 99 percent of teaching is making the students feel interestedin the material. Then the other 1 percent has to do with your methods. And that's not just true of languages. It's true of every subject.

I look forward to teaching the occasional class, 'cause I was a professor. And I had fun doing it.

I could always improvise. Some of my teachers remember me standing in front of the class with a flower on my head, talking about photosynthesis. I'd stop and say, 'Is this working for any of you?' The kids were like, 'What is he doing?'

I love to learn; I really do. We'd study something in class, and I'd take it outside of class and become, like, obsessive and just research everything.

You have to give kids things they're interested in reading. That's what teachers do who are engaged in what their students want.

Very often we developed a better grasp of the subjects than the over worked teachers.

I don't think I really like going to class that much.

By the end of the semester [in the high school] I was the only one up in front of the class everyday. Actually I could have passed the class four times over because every time you got in front of the class you got extra credit.That was the only class I got an A in and it was the funniest report card because it read Speech - A but everything else was just D, D, D, D.

What Hamlet suffers from is a lack of zombies. Let us say Rosencrantz and Guildenstern show up—Ho-HO! Now you’ve got something that stirs the, um, something that stirs things that are stirrable. BOOM! A pack of ravenous flesh-eaters breaks open their heads and sucks out their eyeballs. No need for iambic pentameter because they are grunting, groaning annihilators of humanity with no time for meter. You’re not asleep in the back of English class anymore, are you? This is what I’m talking about. Zombies. Learn it, live it, love it.

The faster you go, the more students you leave behind. It doesn't matter how much or how fast you teach. The true measure is how much students have learned.

A really large number of teachers contact us offline testifying how valuable iPads are for their students.

I didn't know many classes where I could try and relate the thing that I really loved and wanted to do into an intellectual idea.

We've heard from many teachers that they used episodes of Star Trek and concepts of Star Trek in their science classrooms in order to engage the students.

I admired what my students were writing, but I think their improvement doesn't directly result from me but from being in a class, being with each other.

A very wise old teacher once said: I consider a day's teaching wasted if we do not all have one hearty laugh.

But when all is said and done, the fact remains that some teachers have a naturally inspiring presence and can make their exercises interesting, whilst others simply cannot.

Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths pure theatre.

Most naughtiness arises because the children are bored and lack a relationship with the teacher.

Teaching can be learning, especially if student curiosity with the question 'What's going on here?' can be elicited.

I was a mediocre B-average student throughout my school years.

By looking at the questions the kids are asking, we learn the scope of what needs to be done.

Prior to being allowed to enter the profession, prospective teachers should be asked to talk with a group of friendly students for at least half an hour and be able to engage them in an interesting conversation about any subject the prospective teacher wants to talk about.

Many classrooms are overcrowded, and splitting the class into smaller groups gives the children more one on one attention.