ENERGIZE YOUR CLASSROOM WITH EMOTIONALLY ENGAGING TEACHING
What is it?
Emotions arrest attention, motivate behavior, and encourage memory consolidation. How can teachers harness the power of emotion to enliven students’ curiosity, mobilize their efforts, transform their understanding, and enhance their long-term learning? This short guide provides answers.
Emotions arrest attention, motivate behavior, and encourage memory consolidation. How can teachers harness the power of emotion to enliven students’ curiosity, mobilize their efforts, transform their understanding, and enhance their long-term learning? This short guide provides answers.
Who is it for?
Teachers.
Teachers.
What can it do?
In the halls of the academy, emotions often are viewed as suspect. We’ve been led to believe that they are enemies of logic, of rational thought. But emotions evolved to predispose our actions, to tag certain information as worthy of attentionand remembrance, and to motivate our approach or avoidance of situations, people, and goals. In essence, emotions tell us what we care about, where and how we should invest our time.
This guide considers the pillars of emotionally engaged teaching as well as examples embodying these principles.
In the halls of the academy, emotions often are viewed as suspect. We’ve been led to believe that they are enemies of logic, of rational thought. But emotions evolved to predispose our actions, to tag certain information as worthy of attentionand remembrance, and to motivate our approach or avoidance of situations, people, and goals. In essence, emotions tell us what we care about, where and how we should invest our time.
This guide considers the pillars of emotionally engaged teaching as well as examples embodying these principles.
Cavanagh, S. R. (2021, June). Energizing your classroom with emotionally engaged teaching. Thriving in Academe, 39(1). Retrieved from https://www.nea.org/sites/default/files/2021-08/eThriving_August21_0.pdf (accessed 11 November 2021).