I believe the one aspect you have to consider as a teacher to have a secondary education student engaged is to incorporate him/her into your lesson. Whether it be from hands on learning, simulation, or student lead discussion. Have the student involved. An example for an activity I can give is to have the student pick a topic to present. You are making the student in charge of his/her own learning. This ultimately makes the student need to be involved. This also puts an emphasis on making other students listen to each other during the presentations. A good idea is to incorporate the presentations into an upcoming test or quiz. This will make the students take notes for every students’ presentation. A last idea would make the spectating students ask at least three questions each before the presentations are all over. This will allow the students to be fully engaged in your lesson.




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