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    Recommended Resource: Student Engagement

    By Tobi Kibel Piatek | February 9, 2009

     Thank you to KL (a current student) for this recommendation:

    “I am a psychology major and enjoy using this class as another tool to learn more about  human behavior. As part of Lesson 4 I read “Engaging Youth in School.”  These are some of the key points:

    1. A student’s engagement in school was found to be correlated with a student’s behavior and achievement in school. Their engagement is based on their belief s about how good they are in school, their values and goals, and their social connection to the school. This held true with students from different backgrounds.

    2.Studies show that students (depending on circumstances) become both more and more less interested in school as they grow from elementary school to high school.

    3. When students have choices about the classes they take or in the way they accomplish an assignment they are more likey to do schoolwork. 

    This was a wonderful resource. It was very interesting to read about what works and doesn’t for trying to get kids involved in their learning.

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