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Teaching Strategies

Engaging Classrooms and Engaged Scholars, EVERY TIME!

Wednesday, February 26, 2025
2:20 PM – 2:40 PM East Coast USA Time
Location: A704
Session Type: Contributed Talk

    Presenter(s)

  • Jesse Meeks, B.S., D.C

    Assistant Director of Online Learning / Secondary Principal
    John Adams Academy
    American Fork, UT, United States

Abstract Description :

In the 21st century many families and students are opting in for online learning. It is effective, exciting, and engaging when done correctly; it works! There are clear, researched, strategies that fix low test scores and engage bored students. Walk away from this session with confidence and never again feel like you are a boring teacher!!


You will leave with a list of pedagogical techniques that are so simple they are routinely forgotten but are essential and proven, visuals of what a well-designed lesson looks like in Canvas (LMS) so you don’t have to experiment for years figuring it out what works, watch brief video clips of classes that will motivate you, and enjoy a Q&A with an experienced online administrator and teacher.

If someone was doing a search for your session in the program what 5 words might they use to search for and find your session.: Engaging, Students, Techniques, Pedagogy, Effective

Learning Objectives:

  • At the end of this session, participants will be able to use a list of proven strategies that will make the classroom to be engaging, give clarity to each live and asynchronous session to the students and teachers and will result in greater student compliance live and while doing independent work.
  • At the end of this session, participants will be able to design a lesson for any LMS with the right look, order of activities, and directions that will spur the students to action.
  • At the end of this session, participants will be able to do a quick check of their own lesson plans to ensure they have not missed key components.