Children need to be taught in ways that match their individual learning styles by educators who recognise their abilities and potential for engagement in learning.
Engagement is sustained attention to an activity or person.
National Research Council
...student engagement represents both the time and energy
students invest in educationally purposeful activities, and the effort institutions devote to using effective educational
practices.
Kuh et al, 2008
Engagement is the connection between the student and
their learning outcome. Students cannot create that connection for themselves; it is educators, families and colleagues who
must construct it with and for them.
Carpenter et al, 2011
Although often measured as time spent on task, academic engagement is conceptualised as a broader construct that refers to 'the intensity and emotional quality of children's involvement in initiating and carrying out learning activities'
Skinner & Belmont, 1993
