Overcoming Disengagement in Mathematics Classrooms

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Abstract
Students at the school are required to maintain engagement in both curriculum and
noncurriculum activities in school. This is entirely what the school and society want to
accomplish, without them knowing that disengagement is rooted in schools. (Corbo, 2014)
Engagement and disengagement are both determined by the student activity and pleasure. In my
experimentations on the placement, most of the students at the school are where they do not
require to be either they are pressured by the parents to be at school or is the norm of modern
society to be learned hence making them be educated. This leads some to be detached with the
system by becoming dormant at school, engaging in school activities and others they just drop
out of school. Others tend to stay struggle or even discussed with the school. On my experience
some student in school was so depressed with the school environment, some wished there was no
school at all, they have the perception that the school is like a ‘prison’ or a slave center for the
young youth. This view shows that the school needs to change how it operates and handles the
student. This is by creating a conducive environment that accommodates or characters in school;
behavior is modeled as well as build due to the environment the kids were brought up in. Hence
the school should be able to suit all these verse personalities. By creating a classroom
environment and outside the classroom environment that suits all the student

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Issues of disengagement VCE Unit 3&4 mathematics
Disengagement in mathematics class is becoming an issue in school; this is where the
student turns off from the desired characters in a class environment during the instruction period.
(Cairns,2018)This is brought up by the following concerns that need to be taken into
consideration in order to overcome disengagement. The expectations that are set for the students
must be achievable when the expectations are so difficult for the learner to achieve leads to lose
of hope and learner may develop a fear of the task and sees him/herself incapable of tackling the
mathematics problem. This leads to develop a negative attitude towards the task and hence loss
of concentration in the classroom work, secondly when the learner thinks that the context being
instructed is irrelevant leads to loose of morale and motivation to get engaged in classroom
activities. Some of the mathematics concepts is abstract making the student register in the mind
that the content is not applicable anywhere, hence the teacher is just wasting time delivering
content that is irrelevant, thirdly the relation that is created between the student and the teacher
plays a great role in gaining the concentration of the student in class and also help in making
student get engaged in classroom activities, poor relation leads to the development of negative
attitude toward the main discipline in class, (Solomon,2016) This leads to lose of concentration
due to the developed attitude. Stress at home and at school also is a factor that may lead to
disengagement of the student in school, if the student does not have e the capability of coping
with the stress both at school and at home, definitely concentration toward the school activities
will be lost. Mathematics needs a lot of concentration hence the teacher should ensure that the
student is fully active. (Attard, 2014)

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Classroom disengagement
In my analysis, in a classroom environment, the student behavior was problematic, teach
hers were unable to determine the cause of such huge change in behavior, most of the leaners
were not ready to learn or engage in any class activity.( Montuoro, 2018) Most of the issues that
arose out of classroom disagreement are a failure to complete the homework the student was
given to accomplish; this issue was rampant in most of the mathematics classes. Teachers went
the extra mile to provide sources of research which can assist the student to tackle the given
homework, but still, there was reluctant of students to finish the homework. Some of the students
were failing to attempt even as a single question on the given homework. In my study I noticed
that most of the students were ignorant to do the assignment, luck of attempting the question
shows that the student was not interested in learning or doing the task, some of the causes that
lead to student failing to attempt the assignment were; The student took the homework as a
burden to them, some said that the work was made to punish them rather than for the purpose of
gaining the knowledge, some student were not even concern whether the work is important or
not. This showed that the majority of the students were not ready to do the work and they had
detached themselves from the classroom activities’. (McDermott, 2017) Some cases showed that
student reluctance was due to lack of self-confidence and self-drive. Through the implementation
of a system that is student-centered and gives the student a platform to express themselves on
how their view classroom homework, they could have come up with ideas that leads to the
solution of their disengagement which deviates them from the normal duty. (Menesini, 2015)
In extreme cases, a student in the classroom is disruptive to the extent of causing
violence. This issue is brought by the student not understanding the environment they are and
how they are supposed to handle their self in the classroom. On my analysis the student