Student engagement

Malcom Forbes once said, "Diamonds are nothing more than chunks of coal that stuck to their jobs". Although this statement is true, it does not mean that all diamonds are alike. Individuals find diamonds in different shades, with different levels of clarity and more. Thanks to advances in diamond cutting technology, individuals now have access to different styles as well. A good example of this is the sunshine cut diamond, one where the cut was designed in sunny St. Petersburg, Florida. Before…

In Matthew O’Brien’s report, “The Strange Economics of Engagement Rings”, he tightly focuses on the topic of engagement rings. He informs the reader about the original purpose of engagement rings, along with the purpose of them now. He shows the reader information about the significance of engagement rings by including a graph of diamond imports by year in 1930 through 1963. In the graph there is a gradual increase in diamonds around 1935 to 1944, then there is a large increase in the imports of…

The tradition of beginning an engagement with a diamond ring is largely an American custom that has resulted in the United States becoming one of the largest shareholders of the global diamond jewelry market (Global Diamond Jewelry). The custom dates back to first half of the 1900s when diamonds were introduced as a symbol of undying love due to their lasting value. Although diamond wedding rings serve as an investment and symbol of eternal love, some luxury rings, such as Tiffany and Company,…

reflection and enhance the learning process (Brookfield, 1990). I entered my community engagement practicum with an understanding that a classroom is made of diverse students. While completing my community engagement I came to appreciate the vast amount of diversity in the classroom and how it shapes the learning outcome for the students. The teacher demonstrated how to teach a lesson which catered to all students but differentiating aspects of the lessons to be beneficial experience. I had…

because it is the main basis of education. “Student engagement is possibly the most critical point of teaching.” If students are not engaged in learning, they will not retain or gain knowledge from the instruction they are given, defeating the purpose of teaching. Being engaged is not to be confused with being “on task.” “Student engagement requires intellectual involvement with content or active construction of understanding. Mental engagement is also required.” These lessons are…

differences. The article written by Deborah Tannen titled “How Male and Female Students Use Language Differently” captures students’ participation in a classroom setting. It can be overlooked that gender has no effect with their education, but is explained as why engagement correlates with the gender of the students’. Tannen researched and observed different effects involving participation within education to involve all students and not continually have males. Tannen’s article involves…

bolt-on solution, specifically tailored to support learning that is hands-on, collaborative, problem-based and engaging. Thinkscape is composed of 4 products designed to work with an existing LMS: · APP is a web and mobile platform which gives students a hands-on experience and facilitates meaningful independent learning. At their fingertips, they have instruction, just-in-time support, inline assessment, and tools to generate reports. · Ink is the authoring system. Existing…

silent. All the students appear to be engaged in various literacy activities. While a small group of students meet with the teacher for a reading group, the remaining students work independently. The students working independently are doing Daily Five activities: Read-to-Self, Read-to-Someone, Listen to Reading, Working on Writing, or Word Work. Although the students are quiet, not all of them are doing their independent activities properly. During Read-to-Self, only one student is actually…

Bowling Alone focuses on the decrease in civic engagement of American society and provides detailed examples and data as to why civic engagement such as voter turnout and “secondary association” involvement is decreasing. Putman attributes this decrease to demographic transformations by means of changing from “the corner grocery store” to the supermarket and even to electronic shopping. With a change like this there is less interaction while buying goods at the supermarket to almost no…

1.1.1 Contextual determinants Contextual determinants identified as influencing student engagement included institutional, teacher, family, peers and task-related determinants. First, with respect to the institutional, several papers identifying ways in which institutional factors affected engagement, such as school size, safety, logistical support, institutional culture and opportunities available (Lee and Smith, 1993, Lee and Smith, 1995, Marks, 2000, Ripski and Gregory, 2009, Fischer, 2015,…