Which practice involves incorporating movement to increase engagement and reset attention?

• A. Removing movement to reduce distraction.
• B. Providing video-based instruction with no physical activity.
• C. Incorporating movement to increase engagement, reset attention, and support learning.
• D. Keeping students seated and silent.

Answer: (C)

Movement in learning taps into the brain-body connection to boost engagement and reset attention. When students move—such as quick stretches, standing for a moment, or short gestures linked to the content—the brain gets a reset signal that helps re-engage focus after a period of thinking or listening. This kind of physical activity raises arousal to an optimal level for learning, supports transitions between activities, and can improve memory encoding by pairing movements with ideas. Practical classroom use might include brief brain breaks, moving to discuss with a partner, or acting out a concept in a quick activity. Because the body is involved, students tend to participate more, stay attentive longer, and return to tasks with renewed focus. By comparison, removing movement reduces opportunities to re-activate attention, video-based instruction with no physical activity remains largely passive, and keeping students seated and silent misses chances to re-energize learning and engagement.