especially when some of them have had such little experience with engagement in their lives at school.
Engaging students affectively, or relationally, is a preventative restorative practice.
Engaging students cognitively, or through brains on learning, is a preventative restorative practice.
When you do both of those things, students are likely to behaviorally engage!
Chris Edmin on Teachers Engaging Students
There are multiples of engagement variations. There is a lot of research that supports that if the student and teacher have a relationship (affective engagement) and the content is relevant and doable for the student (cognitive engagement), the student will behaviorally engage.
What are the ways that YOU measure engagement in your life at school?