Educational Engagement: A Successful Strategy for Academic and Civic Achievement and Success
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As policymakers and education leaders focus on improving schools, student engagement should be one of the strategies they consider. In our current high-stakes education environment, policymakers and education leaders support strategies shown to contribute to student achievement.
Quality student engagement should be considered as an effective intervention that leads to student success.
What is student engagement? It is the connectedness or bonding students feel to school; it incorporates the idea of commitment or investment in one’s education; and it can be influenced by relationships with teachers and peers, class work, studying, school behavior and more.
When students are engaged in their schooling, they generally have better experiences. Some researchers and policymakers focus on student engagement as an effective strategy to learn and apply academic knowledge; others focus on student engagement in service to their community to acquire and enhance civic competencies; and others focus on student engagement as an intervention to reduce dropout rates. Significant research focuses on how engagement assists students to create and sustain relationships that matter for academic success. In particular, attention has been paid to how engagement assists “at-risk” students to move from risk to resiliency.
Schools can provide support to students, particularly those at risk, through resilience-building experiences that focus on five themes:
Full Report: http://www.ecs.org/ecsmain.asp?page= ... 77/7577.pdf
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