She had been a disengaged student, by her own account, mainly focussed on her music.
Conversations, including brief verbal encounters, can make the difference in the life of a senior citizen, a crying child, a disengaged student or a fellow traveler.
It also comes from the students, who complain annually about an indifferent, disengaged student body.
Likewise, whether dealing with an egotistic colleague or an insecure or disengaged student, the ability to find common ground and laugh together is the closest thing that we in academia have to a magic bullet.
While this could have served to attract a somewhat higher number of disengaged students, analyses of the sampling outcomes suggest that this was not the case (Cosgrove et al., 2010).
The school has cracked down on disengaged students, according to a statement by its director, Sharon Williams, who said a policy adopted last December mandates attendance at online classes for those students who do not log in, repeatedly fail to complete lessons or are failing three courses.
Poor attendance and disengaged students have been such a problem that Agora dismissed 600 students last year for nonattendance, 149 of them just before state tests were administered, according to school board minutes.
What about disengaged students then, or those seeking an alternative at levels 1 and 2? Certainly, in terms of priority markets, the most urgent issue in 14-19 reform is the growing number of young people leaving without qualifications or marketable skills of any type.
As a seventh-grader in California, Patty writes, her Latin classes were both abstruse and laughably easy: boring, rote recitations of declensions performed by rowdy, disengaged students, the words presented in such a way as to suggest that they had nothing to do with anything anyone ever actually said to one another.
If you're a school leader, you have problems to solve: bullying, teacher burnout, disengaged students, casual vandalism and litter, and cultural and socio-economic differences, among others.
These "passively disengaged" students can be one to two years behind their peers in their work.
