Optimal Learning Environments to Promote Student Engagement

1. Introduction: Towards Optimal Learning Environments in Schools
David J. Shernoff

2. Aims of Education Revisited (Einstein’s E = MC2 of Education)
David J. Shernoff

3. The Nature of Engagement in Schools
David J. Shernoff

4. Measuring Student Engagement in High School Classrooms and What We Have Learned
David J. Shernoff

5. Engagement as an Individual Trait and Its Relationship to Achievement
David J. Shernoff

6. Connecting to “The How” of Classroom Engagement: Instruction and Optimal Learning Environments
David J. Shernoff

7. Connecting to “The Who”: The Primacy of Supportive Relationships
David J. Shernoff

8. Connecting to “The What”: Engaging Approaches to Traditional Subject Matter
David J. Shernoff

9. Engagement Beyond the Core Academic Subjects
David J. Shernoff

10. Models of Engaging Private Schools and the Case of Montessori Schools
David J. Shernoff

11. Alternative Public School Models
David J. Shernoff

12. Learning from Research on Youth Engagement During Out-of-School Time
David J. Shernoff

13. Model After-School Programs
David J. Shernoff

14. Technological Innovations on the Horizon
David J. Shernoff

15. Re-engineering the Schools of Tomorrow: Towards Community Sponsorship
David J. Shernoff

Keywords: Psychology, Child and School Psychology, Social Work, Educational Psychology, Positive Psychology, Family, Teaching and Teacher Education