What did you do in school today?

Are Canadian Students Engaged? Percentage of 67,248 Grade 5 - 12 Students Engaged in Their Learning and School SENSE OF BELONGING 71% GRADE 7 GRADE 6 76% GRADE 5 82% 67% GRADE 8 57% INTELLECTUAL ENGAGEMENT ATTENDANCE 65% PARTICIPATION IN SPORTS & CLUBS 66% GRADE 12 45% GRADE II 41% GRADE lo 42% GRADE 9 48% cea www.coa-ace.ca/wdydist DISENGAGED Great minds don't think alike ENGAGED What is this image telling us? Many Canadian students are tuned in to school, but tuned out of learning About 7 in 10 students are socially engaged in school: they have a positive sense of belonging and participate in one or more sports or clubs. About the same number of students attend school regularly and get to their classes on time. As you look into the classrooms, you see that most Grade 5 and 6 students are engaged in their learning. However, intellectual engagement begins to fall by Grade 7, and by Grade 9 fewer than 50 percent of students are engaged. Although not shown in the image, students' efforts to do well in school remain high in middle and secondary schools - what falls dramatically is their level of interest in and motivation to do their schoolwork. A multidimensional framework of student engagement The image illustrates highlights from the Tell Them From Me 2.0 Student Survey. Through this survey, students at schools participating in What did you do in school today? shared their experiences of engagement in school and in classrooms. The survey results allow teachers and students to understand three different dimensions of student engagement: social, institutional, and intellectual. The table below describes the dimensions and students' levels of engagement. The bold categories in the table's third column correspond to the categories in the image. (Note that the third column shows percentages of all students surveyed; for intellectual engagement, the image shows the percentages by grade.) DIMENSION DEFINITION PERCENTAGE OF STUDENTS WHO ARE ENGAGED • Social Engagement • meaningful participation in the Life of the school • participation in sports and clubs (66%), sense of belonging (71%), and positive friendships at school (75%) • Institutional Engagement • self-reported attendance (65%) and homework behaviour (47%), and the value students place on the outcomes of schooling (71%) • active participation in the requirements for school success • intellectual engagement (a composite of interest and motivation (31%), effort (70%), effective learning time (68%), relevance (52%), rigour (59%)), and instructional challenge (data not available) • Intellectual Engagement • a serious emotional and cognitive investment in learning Jodene Dunleavy (Canadlan Education Assoclation) and J. Douglas Willms (Canadlan Research Insttute for Soclal Pollc, University of New Brunswick), May 2011. Licensed under a non-exclusive Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial No Derivatives License. You are free to copy, distribute and transmit this image provided it is distributed in its entirety, and proper credit is given to the authors and to CEA and Its website www.cea-ace.ca. You may not alter, transform, or bulld upon this Image or use It for commercial purposes. сеа To learn more about What did you do in school today? visit www.cea-ace.ca/wdydist Great minds don't think alike Are Canadian Students Engaged? Percentage of 67,248 Grade 5 - 12 Students Engaged in Their Learning and School SENSE OF BELONGING 71% GRADE 7 GRADE 6 76% GRADE 5 82% 67% GRADE 8 57% INTELLECTUAL ENGAGEMENT ATTENDANCE 65% PARTICIPATION IN SPORTS & CLUBS 66% GRADE 12 45% GRADE II 41% GRADE lo 42% GRADE 9 48% cea www.coa-ace.ca/wdydist DISENGAGED Great minds don't think alike ENGAGED What is this image telling us? Many Canadian students are tuned in to school, but tuned out of learning About 7 in 10 students are socially engaged in school: they have a positive sense of belonging and participate in one or more sports or clubs. About the same number of students attend school regularly and get to their classes on time. As you look into the classrooms, you see that most Grade 5 and 6 students are engaged in their learning. However, intellectual engagement begins to fall by Grade 7, and by Grade 9 fewer than 50 percent of students are engaged. Although not shown in the image, students' efforts to do well in school remain high in middle and secondary schools - what falls dramatically is their level of interest in and motivation to do their schoolwork. A multidimensional framework of student engagement The image illustrates highlights from the Tell Them From Me 2.0 Student Survey. Through this survey, students at schools participating in What did you do in school today? shared their experiences of engagement in school and in classrooms. The survey results allow teachers and students to understand three different dimensions of student engagement: social, institutional, and intellectual. The table below describes the dimensions and students' levels of engagement. The bold categories in the table's third column correspond to the categories in the image. (Note that the third column shows percentages of all students surveyed; for intellectual engagement, the image shows the percentages by grade.) DIMENSION DEFINITION PERCENTAGE OF STUDENTS WHO ARE ENGAGED • Social Engagement • meaningful participation in the Life of the school • participation in sports and clubs (66%), sense of belonging (71%), and positive friendships at school (75%) • Institutional Engagement • self-reported attendance (65%) and homework behaviour (47%), and the value students place on the outcomes of schooling (71%) • active participation in the requirements for school success • intellectual engagement (a composite of interest and motivation (31%), effort (70%), effective learning time (68%), relevance (52%), rigour (59%)), and instructional challenge (data not available) • Intellectual Engagement • a serious emotional and cognitive investment in learning Jodene Dunleavy (Canadlan Education Assoclation) and J. Douglas Willms (Canadlan Research Insttute for Soclal Pollc, University of New Brunswick), May 2011. Licensed under a non-exclusive Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial No Derivatives License. You are free to copy, distribute and transmit this image provided it is distributed in its entirety, and proper credit is given to the authors and to CEA and Its website www.cea-ace.ca. You may not alter, transform, or bulld upon this Image or use It for commercial purposes. сеа To learn more about What did you do in school today? visit www.cea-ace.ca/wdydist Great minds don't think alike Are Canadian Students Engaged? Percentage of 67,248 Grade 5 - 12 Students Engaged in Their Learning and School SENSE OF BELONGING 71% GRADE 7 GRADE 6 76% GRADE 5 82% 67% GRADE 8 57% INTELLECTUAL ENGAGEMENT ATTENDANCE 65% PARTICIPATION IN SPORTS & CLUBS 66% GRADE 12 45% GRADE II 41% GRADE lo 42% GRADE 9 48% cea www.coa-ace.ca/wdydist DISENGAGED Great minds don't think alike ENGAGED What is this image telling us? Many Canadian students are tuned in to school, but tuned out of learning About 7 in 10 students are socially engaged in school: they have a positive sense of belonging and participate in one or more sports or clubs. About the same number of students attend school regularly and get to their classes on time. As you look into the classrooms, you see that most Grade 5 and 6 students are engaged in their learning. However, intellectual engagement begins to fall by Grade 7, and by Grade 9 fewer than 50 percent of students are engaged. Although not shown in the image, students' efforts to do well in school remain high in middle and secondary schools - what falls dramatically is their level of interest in and motivation to do their schoolwork. A multidimensional framework of student engagement The image illustrates highlights from the Tell Them From Me 2.0 Student Survey. Through this survey, students at schools participating in What did you do in school today? shared their experiences of engagement in school and in classrooms. The survey results allow teachers and students to understand three different dimensions of student engagement: social, institutional, and intellectual. The table below describes the dimensions and students' levels of engagement. The bold categories in the table's third column correspond to the categories in the image. (Note that the third column shows percentages of all students surveyed; for intellectual engagement, the image shows the percentages by grade.) DIMENSION DEFINITION PERCENTAGE OF STUDENTS WHO ARE ENGAGED • Social Engagement • meaningful participation in the Life of the school • participation in sports and clubs (66%), sense of belonging (71%), and positive friendships at school (75%) • Institutional Engagement • self-reported attendance (65%) and homework behaviour (47%), and the value students place on the outcomes of schooling (71%) • active participation in the requirements for school success • intellectual engagement (a composite of interest and motivation (31%), effort (70%), effective learning time (68%), relevance (52%), rigour (59%)), and instructional challenge (data not available) • Intellectual Engagement • a serious emotional and cognitive investment in learning Jodene Dunleavy (Canadlan Education Assoclation) and J. Douglas Willms (Canadlan Research Insttute for Soclal Pollc, University of New Brunswick), May 2011. Licensed under a non-exclusive Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial No Derivatives License. You are free to copy, distribute and transmit this image provided it is distributed in its entirety, and proper credit is given to the authors and to CEA and Its website www.cea-ace.ca. You may not alter, transform, or bulld upon this Image or use It for commercial purposes. сеа To learn more about What did you do in school today? visit www.cea-ace.ca/wdydist Great minds don't think alike Are Canadian Students Engaged? Percentage of 67,248 Grade 5 - 12 Students Engaged in Their Learning and School SENSE OF BELONGING 71% GRADE 7 GRADE 6 76% GRADE 5 82% 67% GRADE 8 57% INTELLECTUAL ENGAGEMENT ATTENDANCE 65% PARTICIPATION IN SPORTS & CLUBS 66% GRADE 12 45% GRADE II 41% GRADE lo 42% GRADE 9 48% cea www.coa-ace.ca/wdydist DISENGAGED Great minds don't think alike ENGAGED What is this image telling us? Many Canadian students are tuned in to school, but tuned out of learning About 7 in 10 students are socially engaged in school: they have a positive sense of belonging and participate in one or more sports or clubs. About the same number of students attend school regularly and get to their classes on time. As you look into the classrooms, you see that most Grade 5 and 6 students are engaged in their learning. However, intellectual engagement begins to fall by Grade 7, and by Grade 9 fewer than 50 percent of students are engaged. Although not shown in the image, students' efforts to do well in school remain high in middle and secondary schools - what falls dramatically is their level of interest in and motivation to do their schoolwork. A multidimensional framework of student engagement The image illustrates highlights from the Tell Them From Me 2.0 Student Survey. Through this survey, students at schools participating in What did you do in school today? shared their experiences of engagement in school and in classrooms. The survey results allow teachers and students to understand three different dimensions of student engagement: social, institutional, and intellectual. The table below describes the dimensions and students' levels of engagement. The bold categories in the table's third column correspond to the categories in the image. (Note that the third column shows percentages of all students surveyed; for intellectual engagement, the image shows the percentages by grade.) DIMENSION DEFINITION PERCENTAGE OF STUDENTS WHO ARE ENGAGED • Social Engagement • meaningful participation in the Life of the school • participation in sports and clubs (66%), sense of belonging (71%), and positive friendships at school (75%) • Institutional Engagement • self-reported attendance (65%) and homework behaviour (47%), and the value students place on the outcomes of schooling (71%) • active participation in the requirements for school success • intellectual engagement (a composite of interest and motivation (31%), effort (70%), effective learning time (68%), relevance (52%), rigour (59%)), and instructional challenge (data not available) • Intellectual Engagement • a serious emotional and cognitive investment in learning Jodene Dunleavy (Canadlan Education Assoclation) and J. Douglas Willms (Canadlan Research Insttute for Soclal Pollc, University of New Brunswick), May 2011. Licensed under a non-exclusive Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial No Derivatives License. You are free to copy, distribute and transmit this image provided it is distributed in its entirety, and proper credit is given to the authors and to CEA and Its website www.cea-ace.ca. You may not alter, transform, or bulld upon this Image or use It for commercial purposes. сеа To learn more about What did you do in school today? visit www.cea-ace.ca/wdydist Great minds don't think alike Are Canadian Students Engaged? Percentage of 67,248 Grade 5 - 12 Students Engaged in Their Learning and School SENSE OF BELONGING 71% GRADE 7 GRADE 6 76% GRADE 5 82% 67% GRADE 8 57% INTELLECTUAL ENGAGEMENT ATTENDANCE 65% PARTICIPATION IN SPORTS & CLUBS 66% GRADE 12 45% GRADE II 41% GRADE lo 42% GRADE 9 48% cea www.coa-ace.ca/wdydist DISENGAGED Great minds don't think alike ENGAGED What is this image telling us? Many Canadian students are tuned in to school, but tuned out of learning About 7 in 10 students are socially engaged in school: they have a positive sense of belonging and participate in one or more sports or clubs. About the same number of students attend school regularly and get to their classes on time. As you look into the classrooms, you see that most Grade 5 and 6 students are engaged in their learning. However, intellectual engagement begins to fall by Grade 7, and by Grade 9 fewer than 50 percent of students are engaged. Although not shown in the image, students' efforts to do well in school remain high in middle and secondary schools - what falls dramatically is their level of interest in and motivation to do their schoolwork. A multidimensional framework of student engagement The image illustrates highlights from the Tell Them From Me 2.0 Student Survey. Through this survey, students at schools participating in What did you do in school today? shared their experiences of engagement in school and in classrooms. The survey results allow teachers and students to understand three different dimensions of student engagement: social, institutional, and intellectual. The table below describes the dimensions and students' levels of engagement. The bold categories in the table's third column correspond to the categories in the image. (Note that the third column shows percentages of all students surveyed; for intellectual engagement, the image shows the percentages by grade.) DIMENSION DEFINITION PERCENTAGE OF STUDENTS WHO ARE ENGAGED • Social Engagement • meaningful participation in the Life of the school • participation in sports and clubs (66%), sense of belonging (71%), and positive friendships at school (75%) • Institutional Engagement • self-reported attendance (65%) and homework behaviour (47%), and the value students place on the outcomes of schooling (71%) • active participation in the requirements for school success • intellectual engagement (a composite of interest and motivation (31%), effort (70%), effective learning time (68%), relevance (52%), rigour (59%)), and instructional challenge (data not available) • Intellectual Engagement • a serious emotional and cognitive investment in learning Jodene Dunleavy (Canadlan Education Assoclation) and J. Douglas Willms (Canadlan Research Insttute for Soclal Pollc, University of New Brunswick), May 2011. Licensed under a non-exclusive Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial No Derivatives License. You are free to copy, distribute and transmit this image provided it is distributed in its entirety, and proper credit is given to the authors and to CEA and Its website www.cea-ace.ca. You may not alter, transform, or bulld upon this Image or use It for commercial purposes. сеа To learn more about What did you do in school today? visit www.cea-ace.ca/wdydist Great minds don't think alike Are Canadian Students Engaged? Percentage of 67,248 Grade 5 - 12 Students Engaged in Their Learning and School SENSE OF BELONGING 71% GRADE 7 GRADE 6 76% GRADE 5 82% 67% GRADE 8 57% INTELLECTUAL ENGAGEMENT ATTENDANCE 65% PARTICIPATION IN SPORTS & CLUBS 66% GRADE 12 45% GRADE II 41% GRADE lo 42% GRADE 9 48% cea www.coa-ace.ca/wdydist DISENGAGED Great minds don't think alike ENGAGED What is this image telling us? Many Canadian students are tuned in to school, but tuned out of learning About 7 in 10 students are socially engaged in school: they have a positive sense of belonging and participate in one or more sports or clubs. About the same number of students attend school regularly and get to their classes on time. As you look into the classrooms, you see that most Grade 5 and 6 students are engaged in their learning. However, intellectual engagement begins to fall by Grade 7, and by Grade 9 fewer than 50 percent of students are engaged. Although not shown in the image, students' efforts to do well in school remain high in middle and secondary schools - what falls dramatically is their level of interest in and motivation to do their schoolwork. A multidimensional framework of student engagement The image illustrates highlights from the Tell Them From Me 2.0 Student Survey. Through this survey, students at schools participating in What did you do in school today? shared their experiences of engagement in school and in classrooms. The survey results allow teachers and students to understand three different dimensions of student engagement: social, institutional, and intellectual. The table below describes the dimensions and students' levels of engagement. The bold categories in the table's third column correspond to the categories in the image. (Note that the third column shows percentages of all students surveyed; for intellectual engagement, the image shows the percentages by grade.) DIMENSION DEFINITION PERCENTAGE OF STUDENTS WHO ARE ENGAGED • Social Engagement • meaningful participation in the Life of the school • participation in sports and clubs (66%), sense of belonging (71%), and positive friendships at school (75%) • Institutional Engagement • self-reported attendance (65%) and homework behaviour (47%), and the value students place on the outcomes of schooling (71%) • active participation in the requirements for school success • intellectual engagement (a composite of interest and motivation (31%), effort (70%), effective learning time (68%), relevance (52%), rigour (59%)), and instructional challenge (data not available) • Intellectual Engagement • a serious emotional and cognitive investment in learning Jodene Dunleavy (Canadlan Education Assoclation) and J. Douglas Willms (Canadlan Research Insttute for Soclal Pollc, University of New Brunswick), May 2011. Licensed under a non-exclusive Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial No Derivatives License. You are free to copy, distribute and transmit this image provided it is distributed in its entirety, and proper credit is given to the authors and to CEA and Its website www.cea-ace.ca. You may not alter, transform, or bulld upon this Image or use It for commercial purposes. сеа To learn more about What did you do in school today? visit www.cea-ace.ca/wdydist Great minds don't think alike