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- Relational engagement. Building relationships means empowering student minds, encouraging curiosity and risk, swapping stories, and exploring connections that are dependent on interactions with other human beings.
- Intellectual engagement. Students need to be in spaces where learning flows around them, not at them. Teachers need to empower students to be accountable and build the mental stamina to share and debate ideas, challenge one another to pull apart questions, productively struggle with differing opinions, and connect their personal experiences to the universe around them.
- Emotional engagement. Hard to understand, but often easy to see, emotions are cues, sending signals out to everyone nearby. It’s important that we create a space and mechanisms to support those emotions because 11- to 18-year-olds have a lot of big feelings, big thoughts, and frequently a lot of larger-than-life ways to show when they’re not engaged and feeling a certain kind of way about it.
- ‘At The CORE Are Student/Teacher Relationships’
- ‘The Four Ts’
- Measuring The Wrong Things
- Supporting Young Adults
Tonia Gibson, a managing consultant at McREL International, is a former Australian teacher and school leader. At McREL, she focuses on helping schools use an inside-out, curiosity-based approach to develop sustainable and continuous improvement: To truly answer this question, we need to understand what student engagement is. For me, student engagem...
Katie Shenk is a lead curriculum designer for EL Education. Libby Woodfin is the director of publications for EL Education and an author of Learning That Lasts: Challenging, Engaging and Empowering Students with Deeper Instruction: Learning is naturally engaging. When students begin kindergarten, when they learn to read and write, when numbers fall...
Jayson W. Richardson is a professor at the University of Denver and the department chair of the Department of Educational Leadership and Policy Studies in the Morgridge College of Education. He has written over 100 scholarly articles, books chapters, and books focusing on technology, leadership, and change including a new book on Bringing Innovativ...
Luiza Mureseanu is an instructional resource teacher, K-12, for ESL/ELD programs, in Peel DSB, Ontario, with over 17 years of teaching middle and high school students in Canada and Romania. She believes that all English-learners will be successful in schools that cultivate culturally and linguistically responsive practices: Schools need to prepare ...
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Mar 12, 2024 · By highlighting students’ backgrounds, a school can foster a more inclusive environment and strengthen the student-teacher relationships that are crucial for student engagement and...
Improving student engagement remains a challenge among instructors even now that in-person classes have largely resumed. Fostering deep, meaningful student engagement may not feel easy. This edition of the Educator’s Guide brings together some of the best research-informed practices for successfully engaging
May 24, 2021 · 10 Student Engagement Strategies That Empower Learners. 1. Design lessons that ‘can’t work’ without student engagement. 2. Design learning experiences so that students see visible progress on a daily basis. 3. Make objectives clear, and offer student engagement multiple ways to accomplish them. 4.
Sep 19, 2021 · This introductory article provides a comprehensive overview of student engagement by reviewing student engagement conceptions and aspects influencing student engagement. The article concludes by highlighting considerations for student engagement and technology-facilitated education.
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For many students, engagement in school develops through extracurriculars – and schools that offer students opportunities to mentor, tutor, or self-govern see stronger connectedness across the community.
