When I began researching my topic of student (dis)engagement I was noticing a trend in the short abstracts I was reading. There is a common, important connection between student engagement and student success. This led me to revise my inquiry question into ensuring our classrooms are fully engaged. The stance I took prior was about when to allow students to be disengaged and if it could be beneficial. With the concrete evidence that student engagement has many positive effects on students I think it is imperative that we all strive for student engagement as educators.
Student engagement is an especially passionate topic for me. I think it encapsulates so much of what goes on in a classroom. It captures the teacher-student relationship, the student-curriculum relationship, the student-classroom relationship and the student-student relationship. When I'm observing a classroom, I find that my attention always drifts to those not engaged and I spend considerable amounts of time trying to figure out why this student, in this class, in this classroom, with this teacher is not currently engaged.
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