Classroom engagement is how a student interacts in a learning environment. It is about both taking part in tasks and activities that are given to him/her and their body language can play an important role in the classroom. Every student learns differently, including visual, auditory and physical elements in their lessons can improve overall student engagement in the classroom.
There are different types of classroom engagements:
- Behavioural engagement– focusing on participation in academic, social, and co-curricular activities
- Emotional engagement– focusing on the extent and nature of positive and negative reactions to teachers, classmates, academics, and school
- Cognitive engagement-focusing on student’s level of investment in learning.
Numerous researches around the world have come up with multiple benefits that this method creates a curiosity in every student so that everybody feels connected to the lessons. With this method, the subjects are hardly questioned. The technique purely works on sparking interest among the students and then feeding it systematically.
- Classroom Engagement promotes Personal Development
When teachers ask students a random unknown question and provide them with the time and space to think, the method wakes up the rational and imaginative side of every student. When a student might know an answer he/she will try to recollect from the memory and if the student who is still looking for answers, he /she will look it in their memory or let the imaginative part form an innovative answer, either way, the student starts thinking about answer or the outcome of a situation .
- Higher Engagement=Better Learning
Now with all questioning, the child who knows the answer will want feedback and the student who is still looking for answers will want the answer for the question, and the entire class has formed for the need of answers. When the teacher starts with the lesson all the students have their undivided attention towards the lesson. Every student attends and takes part and accepts the education because of the need created, therefore leading towards better learning.
- A room for innovation
When a teacher asks a random student to summarise the lesson taught in the class. This works as a two-fold benefit to the teacher as well as the children. For the teacher this works as feedback and can work on his/her teaching methods. For the children, it can be a recap on what they had done in the class.
- Student-Centric method
This method makes it easy for the teacher to understand the special needs of every child. Here, when you take the whole classroom engagement process into account,the student who always tend to have all the answers, both at the beginning and the end of the class, is a performer. Similarly, the student who rarely has the answers can take one-to-one sessions with the teacher to catch up on his/her lessons and explore other forms of learning better suited for him/her.
And The SSVM School Of Excellence understands that. Classroom engagement and inquiry-based learning are one of the principles of education that the entire institute’s philosophy is hinged upon. Through regular curriculum analysis and teaching structure discussions, the faculty of SSVM under the leadership of Dr.Manimekalai Mohan always maintains a supreme level of engagement in the classrooms owing to its irrefutable benefits. The entire learning experience becomes meaningful with this approach. Every step, every strategy, has some contribution in-store towards the student’s academic growth.
