Student Engagement
Engaging students, in all three ways, is restorative....
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!
Three Types of Engagement, from Noguera
Affective engagement involves positive and negative reactions to teachers, classmates, and content areas. Positive affective engagement, by creating emotional ties between people and institutions, is thought to increase commitment and effort and thus improve cognitive engagement.
Behavioral engagement, associated with positive conduct and involvement in learning tasks, is the result of affective and cognitive engagement.
Cognitive engagement involves the idea of investment, a "thoughtfulness and willingness to exert the effort necessary to comprehend complex ideas and master difficult skills" and is associated with self-regulation.
Chris Edmin on Teachers Engaging Students
Engagement is fluid
Students may be completely engaged with a certain content area, cognitively, but not affectively engaged with the teacher of that content...OR...students may be affectively engaged by a teacher, but struggling to cognitively engaged because the work is too hard.
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?