If you're a new teacher you'll start to notice that despite giving your best in planning lessons different students display different levels of Engagement in your classroom and if you're a teaching veteran you already know that this is a hundred per cent true.
According to Phillip Schlechty, who is known for being a leader who faced the challenges of public education head-on, there are 5 levels of Engagement that learners display in a class.
Levels of Engagement in a Classroom
These levels are listed in order where 1 represents where you want all your learners to be and 5 is the worst possible scenario, every teacher's nightmare.
Engagement
Strategic Compliance
Ritual Compliance
Retreatism
Rebellion
The infographic below sheds light on what reach of these levels mean.
Now that we know what these levels are, let's look at how we can strategise to bring students who fall under the category of the latter four levels of engagement to the first level.
In order to get students to be engaged in the tasks, activities need to be designed to appeal to the values, interests, and needs of the students involved. In order to successfully do this the teacher should keep in mind two things while designing the task:
The Context of the Task
The Choice of the Task
The infographic below will help you understand how to design activities to get the maximum engagement in your classroom or in other words, how to increase student's engagement levels in the classroom.
Best,
Samarna
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