Why does credibility matter?
Now that you have the Engagement Framework in hand, motivating students will be easy, right? Probably not… There’s a lot to those 6 elements, so where should we start?
CREDIBILITY (belief in my teacher).
It’s about trust, competence, closeness… in fact, we broke it down for you in this graphic:
Considering all that, it’s no surprise that credibility is without doubt the single most important element of student engagement.
We must ask ourselves daily: do my students believe in me? If not, what can I do to change that? Plenty, in fact! And that’s exactly what we will cover in our next lesson.