Motivation revisited
This document discusses strategies for keeping students motivated in the classroom. It begins by exploring the concept of motivation and why students naturally have motivation as babies. It then provides suggestions in several areas to foster student motivation: developing relationships with students by learning about them and personalizing lessons; focusing on success through formative assessments and celebrating achievements; setting clear expectations and standards; promoting teamwork and a sense of community; making lessons relevant and authentic; increasing student responsibility and leadership; planning engaging activities; and soliciting ongoing student feedback. The overall message is that good teaching practices like these can breed success by sustaining student motivation to learn.
Motivation revisited
- 1. Motivation Revisited What my students taught me about keeping the class motivated http://community.eflclassroom.com/forum2/topics/motivation D. Deubelbeiss
- 5. Let’s Start With A Challenge
- 10. The puzzle of motivation
- 12. Motivation ……….. to move The values, beliefs and conditions that cause one to learn.
- 15. Good Teaching
- 16. Relationships
- 19. What this means …… • Learn about your students • Begin lessons with small talk • Slow down. Teach simply, simply teach • Personalize the curriculum • Class feelings before fundamentals • Focus on community
- 20. Nothing breeds success like success
- 21. What this means …….. • Slow down • 3Rs. Repeat, review, recycle • Sequencing • Set achievable, “visible” goals • Formative assessments • Celebrate, reward, emotivate • Know the difference between praise and acknowledgement
- 22. Expectations
- 24. What this means …… • View each student as having potential • Instill a growth mindset • Explicitly show you care about students • Set stanards and accountability
- 25. Team work
- 26. What this means ……. • Team building exercises • Foster class identity • Pay attention to the personalities in the class and groupings • PPD – Problem, Purpose, Destination (St. Neot’s Margin – Colin Wilson)
- 27. Make it useful
- 28. What this means …… • Know thy students’ needs • Authentic materials. • Have a rationale, purpose • Real world tasks. • Get out of the class! or bring the world to you!
- 29. Why?
- 30. Get out of the way Quote about
- 35. What this means …… • Rethink your own role • Don’t over teach • Put the responsibility for learning plainly in the hands of students • Allow student leadership / teaching
- 36. Activity
- 37. What this means ……. • Rethink the space of the class • Rethink how you deliver the lesson • Plan activities where there is real practice • Install – Activate – Experience • Blended learning, increase student time on task
- 40. What this means …… • Take time out to talk about the lesson and how it went • Provide a way for students to give you ongoing feedback • Talk to students outside of class • Participate in the wider school
- 41. Structure
- 43. What this means ……. • Use an agenda • Have consistent parts to your lesson • Reinforce and use routines • Provide students with clearly defined roles