Student engagement

Engagement Research shows student engagement is correlated with improved attendance and higher performance in school. Students with a lower level of engagement tend to have disruptive behavior in class, skip school, or eventually drop out of school (Jablon & Wilkinson 2006). Therefore, increasing student’s engagement is crucial for students to success in school. Ghazlan, a kindergartener, is an ESOL (English for Speakers of Other Languages) level 1 student. She doesn’t understand or speak…

Student engagement is an important concept in learning. It refers to attention and interest in what is being taught (Strong, Silver, & Robinson, 1995). It increases academic achievement and active learning (Strong, Silver, & Robinson, 1995), Students must be motivated to learn in order to be engaged. Without motivation, students will be disengaged meaning they will lack interest in the class and will not be motivated to complete tasks that are imperative for learning (Strong, Silver, & Robinson,…

educator, I will pledge to educate our students…

As educators our primary focus is working with students while teaching curriculum, guiding them through daily stressor and mentoring them to become successful within their education. As we are teaching our students we should be reminded the key to their success is not solely on what they learn in school, but the environment they return to once they leave school. Many students do not have a strong support system at home which could affect their ability to learn. As a result, teachers may use…

Wentzel and Wigfield state that motivation is the energy that students bring to tasks and beliefs, values and goals that determine which tasks they pursue and their persistence in achieving them, and the standards they set to determine when a task has been accomplished” (Hinchman 25). It is important as an educator to motivate struggling readers and ELL’s in to engage in the classroom. In order to help struggling readers and ELL students bridge the connection to comprehension in reading,…

used them effectively. These qualities can also be known as habits of mind. Two that I feel I strongly acquire and have carried with me throughout the course of learning and living are responsibility and engagement. My responsibility and engagement throughout school has kept me an honor roll student. Responsibility is to be able to take ownership for one 's actions or for one 's work and to understand when one has done something wrong and to accept the consequences. Throughout English 101…

Lester, J., & Mathias, D. (2013). Transfer Student Engagement Blurring of Social and Academic Engagement. Community College Review, 41(3), 202-222. doi:10.1177/0091552113496141 Student engagement has a positive effect on student persistence. The authors found the definition of engagement differs among students who transfer from 4-year, community college, or both institutions. Engagement is not what the student brings to college, but rather how the student behaves while in college. Tutoring,…

Introduction: The biggest obstacle to improving education today is a lack of engagement and motivation in the classroom. To address this challenge it is imperative to ascertain what does motivate and engage students today so that those aspects can be brought into the classroom. Most people would agree that one of the most motivating and engaging aspects of student life is playing games. Many students frequently spend hours playing games with their friends or glued to one type of screen or…

families are engaged in their children’s education both at school and home children experience more motivation and interest in their own education (Walsh et al., 20140. Hedeen, Moses & Peter (2011) define family engagement as an invitation to staff, educators, families, community and students to work together and share responsibilities. Therefore, as educators it’s important to consider different…

With so many different people working in the Office of Student Engagement and so many different activities going on during the week, it is very easy for the office to become disorganized. That is why I, along with Patrick’s graduate assistant Jordan, took part in a massive undertaking by organizing everything in the office, from the storage closet filled with a variety of supplies, to the drawers that were filled with papers and items that should have been removed a long time ago. After…