Engagement

Lampe (2023) advocates for using TikTok to increase student engagement and class participation. The author discusses how TikTok can be used to simplify big concepts and examine lived experience.

Making Adopted Activities Work for You

Active learning is a growing trend in higher education for enhancing student engagement, but activities can take a lot … Read More

Wyant and Bowen (2018) suggest using book clubs to help students apply sociological concepts to real-world examples. Their study highlights that book clubs positively affect student attitudes and learning outcomes across various course settings.

Engaging Elections: Making Sense of Student Engagement

From protesting against genocide in Palestine to demanding political responses on climate change, we are witnessing a surge of student … Read More

Lessons from the pandemic: when students feel supported and connected, learning happens. See Senter’s Teaching Sociology article for convincing evidence.

Looking for more ways to center your students? Check out this piece from Schall on letting go of power and making students co-contributers in the classroom.

Struggling to engage Gen Z students? This paper discusses using “Renewable Assignments” to meet the needs of younger students through active learning, collaboration, and fostering independence.

See Odum and Kordsmeier’s discussion about the impact teaching sociology in “unprecedented times” can have on students. While various difficulties may arise while teaching during crises, this article gives teachers ideas to craft their pedagogy for an engaged future.