Some Ideas for Motivating Students. .
:VirtualSalt Robert Harris Version Date: November 28, 2012 With so many attractive alternatives competing for students' attention, motivating them to focus and perform is increasingly difficult. This article provides a few ideas for increasing stuident desire to work hard at the learning tasks they need. 1. (In a study conducted on one college campus, a faculty member gave a student assignment to a group of colleagues for analysis. Part of explaining to students might be telling them what they will need in order to succeed in a rapidly changing, ever more competitive world. 2. 3. It is also a good idea to be approachable personally. 4. Students love to be needed (just like adults!). 5. 6. Students will be much more committed to a learning activity that has value for them, that they can see as meeting their needs, either long term or short term. 7. 8. 9.
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Ten Steps to Better Student Engagement. Tristan de Frondeville As a teacher, my goal was to go home at the end of each day with more energy than I had at the beginning of the day.
Seriously. Now, as I travel the country coaching teachers on how to successfully use project learning, my goal remains the same. And I try to teach educators the strategies they need to achieve this goal in their own classrooms. A teacher in one of my workshops said, "When my students and I are in the flow, then I don't feel like I have to work as hard. " Project-based classrooms with an active-learning environment make such in-the-flow moments more common. The good news is that the strategies for creating and managing high-quality project-learning environments are productive in any classroom, whether project learning is a central part of the curriculum or not. Create an Emotionally Safe Classroom Students who have been shamed or belittled by the teacher or another student will not effectively engage in challenging tasks. Cultivate Your Engagement Meter. Increase Student Engagement by Getting Rid of Textbooks.
Editor's Note: Today's guest blogger is Shelly Blake-Plock a high school classroom teacher from Maryland, who blogs at teachpaperless.com.
Drool in the textbook. That's one of my most lasting impressions of high school. I can't tell you the number of times that I fell asleep -- face down in my textbook -- during various history and foreign language classes. And these days -- as a history teacher and as a foreign language teacher -- that's one of the memories I'd rather not impart to my students. It's not that textbooks in and of themselves are in toto 'bad' or 'good'. But not this year. In fact, I've spent the last three years shedding textbooks from my classes. And guess what? Take that Latin text.
Medium does matter. Unfortunately, the textbook does not serve the students quite as well.