I hope it’s been a great week of taking time to stop and thank a teacher! As this “focus” week comes to a close, let’s continue to remember how important teachers are to creating the future. As schools struggle with working to improve student achievement, the reaction seems to be teacher-proofing instruction: providing highly scripted […]
Student Engagement: The “Flow” Factor
revised 9/2/23 Think of a time when you were so engaged in performing an activity that you lost track of time, were totally energized and immersed in it, and you didn’t want to stop . . . Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi defined the idea of uber-engagement or “flow” in his 1990 book, Flow: The Psychology of Optimal […]