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I was teaching high school and working with struggling learners. Many of my students were unmotivated, felt defeated, or believed they were stupid. So, I tried some teaching strategies I learned from a book...
Using goal setting as a tool in your teaching strategies tool kit is a powerful planning process for empowering and motivating students to take control of their progress and work toward something in which they are invested.
One of the single best ways to recognize if your child is bored at school is by how they approach their homework. This is not to say we expect them to come bouncing in the door after school, forgoing a snack and play time, joyfully opening up their backpack and their homework folder. If that's your kid, that's pretty darn amazing!
Here are some questions and answers about motivating students for a successful homework experience.
hile it's easy to look at under performing students and label them as lazy, in reality, research indicates that most students lack motivation because of three fundamental factors: 1. Students don't believe they can succeed even if they try. 2. Students don't feel they have any control over their life choices. 3. Students have a need to avoid failure.
Motivating vs Enabling: How to Motivate Students When They are Stuck. First, understand Mimicking vs. Being Forced to Think: In order to internalize new material, you have to make yourself think about what you are supposed to do. You might get it wrong, but at least you're getting your brain and those neural connections working, and that gets it into your memory, a little bit at a time. If we help youth through every process, they won't know how to do it on their own afterwards. It's really hard as a parent or teacher, especially when working with a student who struggles, to walk away and let them sort the learning out. But we must let them practice, so that they learn and remember.
One of the things we as teachers can do to motivate students and provide them with a sense of personal power – within the class time we have – is to offer choice. This is incredibly important when kids don’t have as many opportunities outside of school to make choices and experience the consequences of those choices. When students take responsibility for their choices, it increases their personal power.
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. One of the things that kids struggle with is taking ownership for their own behavior.
I’ve always believed that there’s more than one way to motivate students. The key is to make them feel that they have control over their destiny.
We all know how important engagement is to helping students learn and retain information. Yet motivating students to engage in a lesson is a constant challenge.