Total Participation Techniques Video

Classroom scenes from elementary and high schools show teachers how to use Total Participation Techniques (TPTs) to get and hold students' attention, activate higher-order thinking, and provide formative assessments of academic progress.

Hear teachers and administrators explain the steps to implementing TPTs so that they engage every kind of learner, from English language learners to gifted but disinterested students.

The book Total Participation Techniques: Making Every Student an Active Learner, 2nd Edition by Pérsida and William Himmele, presents dozens of ways to engage K–12 students in active learning and allow them to demonstrate the depth of their knowledge and understanding.

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Pérsida Himmele has lived, taught, and studied in New York, California, and Pennsylvania, becoming actively involved in advocating for the passage of educational policies and funding formulas for the betterment of urban schools and English language learners. She is currently an Associate Professor at Millersville University in southeastern Pennsylvania.

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William Himmele has served as an ESL teacher and a Speech Pathologist, a higher education administrator, an international consultant and a speaker on issues related to increasing student engagement and teaching English language learners. He is an Associate Professor at Millersville University in southeastern Pennsylvania.

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