Active+Cognitive+Engagement

Active Cognitive Engagement // Instruction begins when you, the teacher, learn from the learner; put yourself in his place so that you may understand.....what he learns and the way he understands it. //  ~ Soren Kierkegaard The major concept behind the work is learning strategies for auditing whether teaching and learning are occurring, specifically auditing to ensure that each and every student is being taught and is learning, regardless of the learning theory one adheres to.

In order for students to learn they must be engaged. When looking at student engagement, we are looking for students who are actively engaged in thinking about what the teacher is attempting to teach. This is what the authors call Active Cognitive Engagement (ACE).

Within the same classroom there can be students who are having two or more completely different learning experiences. This is a signal of inequity.

There are two strategies to ensure that students are actively cognitively engaged:
 * Helping teachers become aware of the level of ACE in their classrooms . This addresses teaching strategies
 * Helping teachers identify their Zone of Self Efficacy.