Motivate Your Students By Helping Them Own Their Behavior
The culture of blame is demotivating We live in a culture of blame. Everything is someone else’s fault. This idea is reinforced by television, media, and what we see in the news. Frivolous lawsuits, high insurance rates; everything is someone else’s fault....
Teaching Strategies: Motivating Students to be Engaged Learners
While it is easy to look at underperforming students and label them as lazy, research indicates that most students lack motivation because of three fundamental factors: Students do not believe they can succeed even if they try.Students do not feel they have any...
Classroom Management – A Neat Way To Use A Noise Level Tracker In Your Classroom
I recently completed a training session with teachers in Alaska. As I almost always do, I learned a new classroom management strategy from a teacher in my audience – something I hadn’t thought of in the classroom context. You may have heard of the Yacker Tracker. It’s...