Season 5, Episode 11 CS (105): Would Your Students Rather Be Quiet Than Wrong? Creating Safe Spaces for Active Engagement

About this episode

The episode discusses the importance of creating safe environments for student engagement in high school classrooms.

Students come to high school with many educational experiences. Unfortunately, some of these experiences have lasting negative impacts. Join Lisa and Jamie for a conversation with high school math teacher, Melissa Hough. Melissa strongly emphasizes the importance of creating a safe environment for students to actively engage in classroom activities leading to improved thinking skills and creating connections to other learning. From the beginning of her courses, Melissa encourages students to ...

People in this episode

Hosts: Dr. Lisa Powers, Ms. Jamie Grieshaber

Guest: Melissa Hough

Topics covered

• safe spaces
• active engagement
• thinking skills
• classroom activities
• educational experiences

Keywords

• safe environment
• student engagement
• classroom activities
• thinking skills
• educational experiences

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: high school

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