- Promote regular attendance
- Don’t just learn students’ names; make sure they learn each others’ names
- Where appropriate, arrange and require study groups
- Integrate campus events into class when practical (require or incentivize attendance at a lecture but then follow up on it in class)
- Arrive early to class
- Minimize punitive aspects of classroom management and bureaucracy, especially in the first class meeting and on the syllabus
- Offer students tips or actual lessons on being a good student: how to take notes, read a difficult assignment, plan for a project
- Allow sufficient wait time after posing a question to the class; alternatively, ask students to write a response and then call on a few to read what they’ve written
- Structure your syllabus to ensure an early, significant graded assignment so that you and the student know if the student’s work and understanding are not up to expectations
- Devote some class time to explaining the relevance and importance of the content and skills taught, especially in required and core classes
- Develop techniques that get struggling students to your office; many students in academic difficulty are too embarrassed or intimidated to seek out the help they need
- Vary instructional methods within class period
http://www.facultyfocus.com/articles/effective-teaching-strategies/10-ways-to-promote-student-engagement/
http://www.lifescied.org/content/12/3/322.full
