Strategies to Enhance Student Engagement in Higher Education

This report delves into various student engagement strategies, focusing on enhancing the learning experience in higher education. It begins by defining student engagement and highlighting its importance, emphasizing how it boosts student confidence and fosters a positive learning environment. The report explores specific strategies such as teachers sharing personal experiences, showing care for students, and motivating their dreams. It also details practical activities, including group work and quiz games, to support English language learners. Furthermore, it examines the use of technology, such as video assignments and presentations, to make learning more interactive and effective. The report references several academic sources to support its claims, providing a comprehensive overview of student engagement techniques and their practical applications in the classroom.

Student
Engagement
Strategies
(Student details)

Definition of Student
Engagement
Student engagement is a term which
refers to degree of passion, attention,
curiosity and interest about learning in a
student.
In other words, Student engagement is a
way in which teacher or educator might
engage students in learning
opportunities.
Educators make different plans and
strategies to engage the students which
called student engagement strategy.
(Christenson, Reschly, & WYLIE, 2012)

Importance of students engagement
strategies
Effective learning and
positive behavior
Build student confidence
Create teachers’ positive
impact on student
Enhance physical and
mental ability of student
Students enjoy learning

Engagement Strategies
Teachers share their life
stories
Teachers show care for
students
Motivate students’ dreams
Teachers must keep
smiling
Build a warm and friendly
class atmosphere


Engagement Strategies
Teachers share their life
stories
One of the best students
engagement strategies is teachers
share their life stories which
motivate students and share their
experiences about learning and life
achievements. This type of stories
motivates and encourages the
students to make bright future.

Engagement Strategies
Teachers show care for students
Show care does not mean that
teacher give 24/7 availability to
students. Its just mean that if a
student does not show any interest
in study then teacher must shows
some concern about it. Teachers
should give value to students’
opinions and give them right advise.

Engagement Strategies
Motivate students’ dreams
A teacher must try to know about
their students’ dreams and opinions
about future. Teacher should
motivate students’ future dreams
and helps in their problems.
If a student mistaken about future
then teacher must correct it and
explain the student about what is
wrong and what is right.

Engagement strategies and activities
to support individual learning needs
Establish confidence
Build concern about learning
Enhance the ability of
learning
Increasing interest to learn
something new
Expand learning
opportunities

Activities to support English language
students
Use group activities
Group activities create English
language classes more
interesting and interactive.
Group activity means that
make small groups of students
and they interact with each
other in English and learn new
vocabulary. (Riggs & Gholar,
2008)

Activities to support English language
students
Play quiz games in English
Quizzes make learning very
interesting and this is a best
engagement strategy to learn
English. Usually students get
bored in learning English. To
make interesting English
learning, teacher will play quiz
with students. (Caram & Davis,
2012)

Technological tools to encourage
student engagement
Provide assignments as videos
Technology make students engagement more
interesting and effective. In today’s time every
student is busy on smartphones or tablets and they
also want to do study on smartphones. To make
learning more interesting for students, teacher
provide assignments as videos.

Technological tools to
encourage student engagement
Create presentations and infographics on
topic
Presentations make topics and study more
interesting and interactive. Infographics make
information engaging and easy to understand the
topic. Software such as keynote and PowerPoint can
be very useful for this.