Effective Engagement Strategies for Young Learners in Primary School

This essay delves into the critical topic of engaging young learners in the primary classroom, emphasizing the significance of early educational experiences. It highlights the importance of student involvement in activities that foster healthy development and build a strong foundation for higher education. The essay explores various strategies to enhance student engagement, including the TAPS (Teacher Assessment in Primary Science) approach, which focuses on reviewing, planning, and executing programs to improve learning outcomes. It discusses the use of technology, the creation of engaging classroom routines, and the importance of making learning relevant to students. The essay also addresses challenges such as allowing student choice and integrating technology effectively. By examining these aspects, the essay provides valuable insights into creating a stimulating and effective learning environment for young learners.

How can we engage young
learners in the primary
classroom? What kind of
engagement strategies are
effective and how do you
know?
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Introduction
 Involvement of children in activities that will help in the development
is necessary to have a healthy growth.
 Primary education is one of the important factor that will be
impacting the education of a person.
 It is the foundation that helps in building higher education strong
(Mary and Young 2017).
 Initiatives taken by the government will help in the improvement of
education of a student.
 Several campaigns have been organised to develop the primary
education.

State of the nation
 As it has been mentioned in the state of the nation that every child
must be provided with education that will help in the improvement of
the science education of the child.
 Primary Science Campaign will help in providing children with latest
information that will help on the development of the science
education of the child.
 According to Ching, Hsu and Baldwin (2018), the teachers must
consider the children as scientists and educate them in order to
develop their science knowledge.

State of the nation
 The National Curriculum of UK, has divided the Foundation Phase
Framework into two key stages.
 Herein, the framework explains that the children must have a good
knowledge about the geography and the social awareness among the
children.
 As stated by Leonardi, Lamb, Howe and Choudhoury (2017), it will
help to measure the impact of profile, quality and quantity of science
being taught in primary classrooms.
 It also explains about the campaign that will be carried on to
implement the knowledge of science among children.

Importance of engagement in
classroom
 Engagement of students to learn science is an important factor that
will help in the development of the creativity of a person.
 It will help to resolve various issues that are being faced by the child.
 As mentioned by Mary and Young (2017), science is an interesting
subject that increases students’ interest towards class.
 It helps in keeping the child focused in education in spite of diverting
as it is the age when children are often diverted into things like toys.

TAPS Focused Assessment
approach
 The TAPS approach will help to analyse the ways in which it can be
helpful in developing the engagement of young learners.
 The approach explains that it reviews, plans and executes the
program.
 In the words of Samarapungavan, Wills and Bryan (2017), students
are being observed, strategies are being planned and it is being
executed applying on the students that will help in bringing changes
in the educational plan.

Ways to engage young learners
in the primary classroom
 It is necessary that the learners are being involved in activities that
are relevant and will help in the growth of education (Fowler 2017).
 The teacher has to be very specific while dealing with young learners
as it will help the child to understand easily.
 The teacher needs to develop a routine that will be followed by the
children as it will help to schedule classes and engagement in
education.
 As it has been said by Nguyen (2018), the teacher needs to use
various technology that will help in better delivery of the task.

Strategies to engage young
learners in activities
 Use various kinds of ways that will help in improvement of the
learning process of children increasing their interest towards science
and maths.
 Technology will help in making it easier for students to understand
the issues and resolve them.
 As it has been mentioned by Widodo (2016), engagement with the
learners will help in developing strategies that will help in developing
their learning activity.
 Create opportunities for developing their interest towards science and
maths that will help in the identification of the challenges that they
are facing.

Effectiveness of the strategies
 Use of technology will help in resolving various issues that will be
faced while execution of strategies.
 In the words of Rehmat, Ehsan and Cardella (2020), using effective
tools and teaching aids will help in effective development of the
strategies.
 Use of effective examples that will help in resolving the issues that
are being faced while learning science.
 When there will be a growing interest of the children towards science
and maths it will be evident that the strategies are being effective.

Challenges faced in
engagement of young learners
 Allowing the learners to take decision or chose according to their
choice is one of the greatest challenge that is being faced by
educators.
 As it has been mentioned by Pinter (2019), inclusion of technology
and right use of them that will help in the improvement of the
learners is a challenge.
 Making young learners work together in a group is a challenge as
handling them is difficult.
 Making them understand the right method of solution for maths is
also a challenge.

Conclusion
 Handling young learners are difficult and developing right strategies
will help in improvement of the working process of the learning.
 Effective strategies will help in receiving outcomes easily.
 Use of different approaches will help in developing strategies that will
help in the development of the learning process of the learners.
 Various challenges are being faced by the educator while delivering
the strategies that will help improving the learning process of
science.

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