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Engagement

Engagement. Within Teachers’ Influence. The Real Issue.

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Engagement

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  1. Engagement Within Teachers’ Influence

  2. The Real Issue • The primary problem facing teachers and schools was not low achievement, but student disengagement. Disengaged students are those who disrupt classes, skip them and fail to do work.. .To enhance achievement, one must first learn how to engage students.

  3. "Student Engagement in "Academic Work" • Student psychological investment in and effort directed toward learning, understanding, or mastering the knowledge, skills or crafts that academic work is intended to promote

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  5. What Influences students to make a psychological investment in learning? • A sense of belonging • Creating a sense of challenge • A sense of relevance to their lives • Make it fun • Positive Outcome • A sense of ‘ownership” of the learning experience • Relationship with the teacher (Trust)

  6. Student Background • Students who identify with conventional expectations of working hard at abstract verbal and mathematical tasks for credentials that bring future rewards are more likely to invest themselves in academic work than students who have little hope in the future rewards promised by the system

  7. What Gives students hope for rewards based on credentials? • Your Family influences—Role Models • Perks along the way that can be associated • Positive affirmations connected to their future goals • Building up students’ sense of the future • (Discourse)-High expectations directed toward the future

  8. Purpose Background Factor #2 No role models - education Success • Helping parents to see that they can become the role models • Connect students with a mentor-Corporate America—College students • Through the Teacher’s I Am-exposure to what is possible. • Books –Biographies-”The Pact”

  9. Three Primary Factors that Foster School Engagement-(TSCI) • -Students' Perceived need for competence • -Students' sense of school membership/belonging-Spirit weeks-T-shirt • Authenticity of the tasks asked to complete

  10. No Purpose Background Factor #3 No connection btwn life & School • 3A no sense of belonging in school • 3B-No sense of what can be gained from school competence.

  11. What can teachers do to foster a sense of belonging in school? • Spirit Days-T-shirts

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