i5 Characteristic: actively engaging
Facilitate active engagement
Definition
Facilitating active engagement means making your business classroom a place of student action and expression.
You create the conditions for students to be motivated to participate and to be personally invested. You design physical “hands-on” activities with materials and objects, as well as intellectual “minds-on” activities with provocative ideas and challenging questions based on real-world experiences. You organize activities that call students to make decisions in real-world business situations, practicing behaviors and mindsets of responsible leaders. You regularly bring students into the physical, virtual, social and intellectual spaces that business professionals live and operate in. You expose them to working professionals’ real narratives and perspectives, helping them develop their personal and professional vision. In actively engaging learning environments, learners choose to focus their attention and may find themselves so immersed that they experience flow.
Research Ties
Read more about this method’s ties to literature on teaching, learning and responsible leadership
Signature Moves
Animating
Incorporating activities that focus students’ attention, energize them, or ask them to perform an action that invites them to physically move in their space or surroundings.
Authenticating
Expose students to real-world issues and engage them in experiences that are authentic to their current and future realities.
Linking
Building meaningful links and relationships between students and industry professionals, businesses, community organizations, and others.
Teching
Creating opportunities for your students to use technologies in effective and healthy ways.
Case Studies
Real-life examples from educators around the world.
Powerful program is an example of transformational learning
Student clubs connect academic and practical worlds
Institutions provide pro bono work for deserving businesses that lack resources
The green business lab simulation engages students in real-life business cycles
Guest speakers add additional voices and perspective
Real-life businesses engage and inspire students during the Two-in-one field trip
The risks and rewards of active engagement strategies — transparent reflections from a Professor
Sustainability in Enterprise