Student engagement

From the very moment the students walk into my mentor’s English classroom, they are expected to write from a prompt she has displayed on her Smart board. She has set a routine and ritual that the students are accustomed to and allows for them to know exactly what to expect when they enter her class. The prompt is always an essential question that can apply to all of her students. The question initiates a discussion that engages the class and it also provides a connection to the topic that the…

career path of becoming an academic director for athletics. Working with student- athletes is a rewarding task for you are helping mentor them at making decisions for their future after college sports. Therefore, my leadership program will be based on formal mentoring. To me formal mentoring is preparing the mentee for the future by providing advice, guidance and support. My program will consist of a team of properly trained student-athlete alumni as mentors. All alumni mentors will be required…

partnerships have on student achievement. Before effective partnerships can be developed, it is important that families and schools truly understand the necessity of school-family engagement, and the effects it has on student success. When it comes to teachers, the research discussed by Ferlazzo (2011) has shown there is often a prevailing negative attitude in schools regarding working with parents that “do not lead to the kind of school-family connections that raise student achievement” (p.…

B: self-management My personal philosophy of classroom management will begin with self-management. Teaching children self-management will be of great importance for having a successful class each year. The students will learn to pay attention to their own behavior, complete activities and engage in interactions using appropriate behavior (What Works, 2014). The children will know what is expected of them. They will monitor their own behavior and control their actions through the…

ELAD690_52 M6 Discussion on Family Engagement As a new principal in an unfamiliar school, I would need to learn about existing family engagement by gathering data in order to develop an appropriate plan. According to Ferlazzo, “We need to relate to families, not as clients, but as partners in school and community improvement,” (2011, p. 10). Similarly, we need to engage all stakeholders in the community to support our schools, and educate teachers, that it is a misconception that providing…

Everything we choose to do in our day to day lives, and every decision we make is somehow motivated. Motivation is an underlying force to everything in our lives. It dictates our engagement with our surroundings thus impacting our ability to play. We tend to fall into three modes of engagement during play. Those three modes are “the 'immersion’ orientation, the 'social’ orientation, and the 'achievement’ orientation” also known as the 'mastery’ orientation” (Gauntlett, Ackermann, Whitebread…

The lack of engagement of Black alumni at Cornell University in university-sponsored alumni association events may be caused by the campus environment that Black alumni experienced while attending as students. These university sponsored alumni events are meant to engage all alumni, however several Black alumni have stated that as students, they did not feel part of the campus culture and therefore have had no interest in participating in events that do not represent their particular interests.…

their companies. There are many components that must be thought of to build organizations, but in order for organizations and their individuals to become successful, the X-Model of Engagement and the Top 10s of Employee Engagement should be put into use. They are critical to all parts of companies. The X Model of Engagement is the first of critical components for organizations. It consists of all the employees and where they stand as of their contribution and satisfaction. The apex is…

children to grow and enhance their skills. Reading allows for children to gain knowledge and enjoy reading on their free time. As educators it important to provide a variety of books and give students the opportunity to read during class. In a diverse class, it crucial for teacher to have books that meet the students level and interest in order for them to enjoy and learn from reading. Literacy begins with parent involvement in order for children to develop not only in reading but listening,…

Article Critique of Student Engagement in the Classroom: The Impact of Classroom, Teacher, and Student Factors Discussion The core emphasis of this research article was joint coordinate engagement by students with or without autism spectrum disorders. There are two main objectives present throughout the article. The first concept is the relationship between environmental classroom factors and student coordinated joint engagement (Steinbrenner, 2015, p. 2394). The second concept is the…