Engaging+Learners

= = How Can We Best Respond To A Student Who Is Disengaged? A holistic attempt to a complex question: Perhaps it starts with knowing (a) yourself (strengths and weaknesses as a person and educator), (b) ALL of your students, (c) students' parents, (d) administrators, and (e) community. Based on that, then begin focusing on the one student who is disengaged. Engaging that one student will involve recognizing patterns within the student's entire personal learning network; that is, its social, cognitive, and materialistic dimensions that all interrelate, reciprocate, and potentially impact each other. As more specifics of this issue are presented, more specific elements to this answer will begin unpacking a more relevant discussion.

What do you think? How have you responded to a student who was disengaged?