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Motivating Students
25 Strategies to Light the Fire of Engagement
Learn why students disengage and how to motivate them to achieve success with a five-step framework. Research-based strategies and fun activities show how to instill a lasting love of learning in students of any age. Classroom tips and troubleshooting advice for common motivation problems prepare readers for the real-world ups and downs of motivating students.
Benefits
- Gain concrete, research-based strategies for counteracting both long- and short-term disengagement.
- Understand the importance of quality relationships between teachers and students.
- Explore the impact of positive reinforcement and feedback.
- Learn a simple three-step process to motivate students to engage.
- Facilitate team discussion about motivation and engagement with a Campfire Talk that closes each chapter.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Chapter 1: Understanding Motivation
Chapter 2: Building a Classroom Learning Community
Chapter 3: Describing and Planning Learning
Chapter 4: Finding Adventure
Chapter 5: Promoting Choice and Control
Chapter 6: Ensuring Learning
Chapter 7: Keeping the Flame Burning!
PRINTABLE REPRODUCIBLES
Chapter 1
- Self-Assessing Your Motivational Practice
- Three-Step Protocol for Motivating Students
- Understanding the Learners
Chapter 2
- Plan for Student Motivation
- Personal View of You Questions
- Rating How You Learn
- Exploring Your Smarts
- Celebrating the Accomplishments of Our Students!
- Cube Activity
- Blank Cube
- Best-and-Worst Outcomes Questioning Sequence
Chapter 3
Chapter 4
Chapter 5
- Plan for Student Motivation
- Survey on Control
- Goal-Setting Template
- Template for Quick Task or Behavior Goal Completion
- Role-Play Planning Sheet
Chapter 6
Chapter 7
Online Only
- Checklist for Engaging, Motivating Lecturettes
- Ineffective and Effective Teacher Responses to Student Misbehavior
- Student Co-Created Rubric Template
- Worksheet for Co-Constructing Criteria
SUGGESTED RESOURCES
Course Pages
- docs.moodle.org/en/Teaching_with_Moodle
- teacher.pageflakes.com
Social Bookmarking; Discussion Boards; Polls and Surveys; Blogs
- delicious.com
- digg.com
- diigo.com/education
Wikis
Online Assessments
Lessons
- kidsvid.4teachers.org
- moodle.org
- thinkquest.org/en
- trackstar.4teachers.org/trackstar
Assignments
- blackboard.com
- poster.4teachers.org
- schooltown.net
- turnitin.com
RSS Feeds
- friendfeed.com
- newsgator.com
Glossaries
Other Resources