Engagement
We had an interesting staff meeting around engagement.   I found this quite thought provoking and it has left me wondering are our students really engaged in their learning or are they just busy?
These are the levels of engagement

Resistance- learners are unwilling to participate and redesign of the classroom practice  is necessary.
Periodic Compliance- learners attention and participation  is unreliable- easily distracted and needs teacher direction.
Passive compliance- learners are in a routine but are mildly distracted.
Active Compliance- learners stay on task and without teacher direction- routine in place but no real effort around quality. work to improve quality
Engagement- ownership of learning- actively working to improve quality.
Deep Engagement- high levels of quality, ownership and willingness to ask questions.

Along with this there are the 6 C's of engagement:  Competition, challenge, curiosity, controversy, choice, creativity, co operation and connections.

The ones taht resonated with mea are choice because I see this as a tool to help children to take ownership of their learning and also help to develop the important key competency of managing self.  I see quite strong engagement when children are partipating in things like discovery - where there is more choice.

Connections to what people are learning is aldo important.  The children need to feel purpose and interest in what they are learning.  Building on children's prior knowledge is vital to gain interest and show a shift in understanding.



In the ideal world  all children would be engaged in the deep level of learning, however this is not the case all the time.  Different personalities and children show different levels of engagement,    This is something that I will continue to ponder.