Teacher and student engagement- Part 1
TEACHER engagement is becoming a common topic at most levels of the education system. What does it mean when one is engaged in teaching assignments at a university? One reference described teacher engagement as teacher commitment, dedication, and involvement in the teacher's workspace. (Teacher engagement: What works? - Teacher Magazine) If you are a teacher, ask yourself: Are you engaged in your teaching? What makes you do so?
Work engagement. Work engagement has been much expected of organizational employees in whatever field of endeavor. Work engagement involves employees' physical, cognitive, emotional and mental involvement in their work roles. As such, it is a motivational concept that, relative to their work, makes employees feel a strong sense of belonging to their work and their organization. It is "a positive, fulfilling, work-related state of mind that is characterized by vigor, dedication, and absorption. Vigor is characterized by high levels of energy and mental resilience while working." Even in the face of difficulties, employees are willing, persistent and dedicated to being "strongly involved" in their work. They experience "a sense of significance, enthusiasm, inspiration, pride, and challenge." They "fully concentrate and are happily engrossed in their work"; time passes quickly; they "feel reluctant to detach themselves from their work." (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Work engagement#Traitversus state) Gallup, a global analytics, describes engaged employees as "feeling responsible for and committed to superior job performance." "Schaufeli and colleagues in their 2002 study define engagement in the working place as a 'positive, fulfilling, work-related state of mind that is characterized by vigor, dedication, and absorption.'" "'Christian and colleagues in their 2011 study view engagement in the workplace as a motivational concept where the individual voluntarily allocates his personal resources and longs for better outcomes.' These definitions regard work engagement as a "mental state or a motivational disposition" — "an inner state which occurs spontaneously." (https://www.teachermagazine.com/in_en/articles/ teacher-engagement- what-works) For employees' positive feelings for their organization, leadership has to set an environment that would make employees feel valuable to the organization.
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