Showing posts with label Douglas Willms. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Douglas Willms. Show all posts

Tuesday, April 14, 2015

Chicken or Egg? Egg or Chicken?


John Antonetti's Engagement Cube
We've all been asked which came first: the chicken or the egg? One of the reasons this question engages us is because it provokes debate. It challenges and exposes our thinking about a variety of things, and everyone seems to have a different theory. 

Speaking of engagement, Dr. Douglas Willms asks a great chicken-egg type question for us educators. In the great debate about how to best engage our disengaged youth, he poses this: does engagement increase achievement OR does achievement increase engagement? 

Dr. Willms' research reveals that "achievement begets engagement." What do you think?