Student engagement

external development leadership. A: Family and Community Involvement and Outreach - Principals design and/or utilize structures and processes which result in family and community engagement, support and ownership for the school. Intentionally designed structures and process that result in family and community engagement in the school will result in greater support and ownership of the school. Creating a welcoming atmosphere to the school will allow parents and community members to feel…

While adaptability correlates with engagement and achievement through personal best goal setting (Burns, Martin & Collie, 2018), it is personal best goal setting that will be the focus of this study. This is because adaptability is a personal attribute that moderates goals in much the same way that efficacy does (Burns et al., 2018). Personal best goal setting has been correlated with improved engagement and achievement (Burns et al., 2018; Martin & Elliot, 2015; Martin…

soliciting recruiter opinions on how to improve communications to increase their proficiency in engaging prospective students. After…

multifarious ways a student can fall off track and lose the pathway to success. College can be the best time of someones life but that does not mean that it should be taken as a joke. Ultimately, you go to college for an education and should strive for success. There are four powerful principles to be followed for college success and if the criteria is met, then one shall see nothing but success in their college career. The first principle is active involvement or engagement. In order to…

Particularly critical for students of color is a climate and culture where students feel welcome to engage. Research from Wood (2014) demonstrated that Black college men were apprehensive to engage in the classroom with faculty for fear of being perceived as academically inferior. In fact, men in his study noted that what some faculty perceived as disengaging behavior was actually angst about being stereotypically viewed as ‘dumb’, ‘unintelligent’, or ‘stupid’. Moreover, faculty members involved…

National Survey of Student Engagement, or NSSE (NSSE, n.d.). The Pew Charitable Trusts charged the National Center for Higher Education Management Systems (NCHEMS) with essentially the development of the entire survey project, from constructing the instrument, to creating a strategy for a pilot administration of the survey. The NCHEMS put together a design team to develop a survey instrument. The design team consisted of several experts in higher education research in the areas of student…

of a text. This can be seen when students respond to questions about the plot (4:36), take notes (4:44), and annotate books (4:51). This lesson challenged students to use the Toulmin Model of Argumentation as they complete a graphic organizer to support claims, gather evidence, and develop warrants/analysis that assesses the guilt of specific characters. Collaborative…

the teacher uses an engaging picture book to share with the class (Cooter and Reutzel, 2015, p. 63). The book that the teacher chose to read was “Click Clack Boo’. All of the students were sitting around the teacher on the rug while she sat in a chair where they could all see her. With Halloween soon approaching the students were excited to read the book after the teacher took them through a picture walk of the book. The teacher began to read the book by stating the title of the book first along…

educated and to be a prominent member of the community and of the workforce. It would be such an honor to become a student in this prestigious program. The five pillars of FIU Honors are research skills, interdisciplinary/connectivity, global learning, appreciation of the global arts, and leadership/community engagement; all are concepts that I want to be able to achieve as a college student, and FIU Honors will force me to realize these goals. Frankly, I had never heard of the FIU honors…

described as an educational curriculum used to teach students multicultural competence by highlighting the experiences of different ethnic groups. Around the 1960s, social movements were inspiring students, educators, and scholars of color to advocate for curricula representative of the complex diversity in the U.S. (Tintiangco-Cubales et al., 2014). These students, educators, and scholars believed that this lack of diversity resulted in students of color being less engaged in their academics,…