A Proposed Action Plan for the Improvement of Students’ School Engagement
Keywords:
Action plan, Affective, Cognitive behaviorAbstract
Student engagement to school is vital in improving the country’s quality of education. The concern of revitalizing the engagement strategies was aimed to address by forwarding an action plan. Descriptive method of research study was conducted on 200 students and 45 teachers from 5 public elementary schools in the Division of Quezon City, Philippines. The study first explored the student engagement levels to assess the status. Results showed that the overall engagement of the students were average. However, some points had to be addressed such as the imbalance between intrinsic and extrinsic motivation. Regarding reading, extra-curricular, and reinforcing the student-family-community collaboration were among the top teacher strategies. With the motivation of providing holistic engagement, the action plan was created to concentrate on three focus areas. It was intended to address inclusivity to stimulate autonomous learning abilities, and to intensify involvement to school.
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