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...
Motivating vs Enabling: How to Motivate Students When They are Stuck
Mimicking vs. Being Forced to Think I have about a dozen children in my Martial Arts class. When teaching them their martial arts forms, we do a continuous series of moves. I stand in front of them and do the forms while they follow along behind me. When they stand...How to Talk to Angry Children and Teens
Talking to Angry Children and Angry Teens When I taught high school, I often found myself in a position where I had to help angry teens come up with solutions for their problems and alternatives to their behavior. That conversation was difficult to start when a...
Stop Trying to Motivate Struggling Students Until You Do This
Why students struggle Our students struggle for many reasons, but often there’s a bigger cause behind their struggles: schooling that doesn’t match their goals and interests. I’ve worked with many students who struggled in school. Their problem is one that compounds...