Student Engagement is an Ecological Affair: Every Piece Matters
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In the USA, every 26 seconds a student drops out of high school, 7,000 students a day and over 1.2 million a year. How students experience school influences their level of success. Ecological factors influence students’ engagement and dis-engagement in their academic journey. Dropping out is the result of a long-term process of disengagement and not a reactive, one-time event. Helping students experience school success increases the likelihood of their college and career productivity, while simultaneously decreasing risky behavior. We posit that foundational to student engagement are the five core social emotional competencies (SECs): self-awareness, self-management, relationship management, social awareness and responsible decision making. We believe that students can become behaviorally, emotionally, and cognitively engaged when they are equipped with the knowledge, attitudes and skills to recognize, understand, manage, express and reflect on their thoughts, interactions, mindsets and emotions (RUMERTIME™) as it relates to self, others and situations.
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Larrier, Y. (2018). Student Engagement is an Ecological Affair: Every Piece Matters. Global Engagement and Transformation, 2(1). Retrieved from https://scholarworks.iu.edu/journals/index.php/joget/article/view/24391
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