Engaged Students Engaged Students Students must engage.
Students have to do the work that's designed by teachers.
We want teachers to create work that is engaging, interesting, and inherently satisfying in some way, while still helping students achieve. But, students have to do the work. The non-profit organization Public Agenda reported a few years ago on a survey of what a representative sample of high school students thought about their high school experience. Last year, the Tennessean ran a story on what valedictorians and salutatorians in the mid-state thought about the challenges they received in high school. Not much challenge.