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Motivation is Needed!
8 Ways to Increase Student Motivation Through Goal Setting
As educators, we realize the value of goal setting and are constantly encouraging our students to dream big and set goals. What we often forget is that unless we help them find their motivation, set up a plan, and identify supports they are likely to forget about their goals, get distracted, and lose drive.
Here are the 8 ways to increase student motivation through goal setting.
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How To Motivate Preschoolers – 15 Strategies That Work
Having some pre-schoolers in your school or nursery that just don’t seem interested in anything? Then you’ve come to right place to sort this problem. Pretty much the key to education is motivation. If children are interested and curious then they will learn. It really is that simple.
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Top 10 Classroom Games to Engage Motivate Students
These top 10 classroom games provide fun ways to engage your students in academic learning, without them even realising!
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Virtual Rewards for Online Classrooms
Rewards are a big part of many teachers’ classroom behavior management systems. But teaching online means classic rewards like pizza parties or a dip into the prize box just won’t work.
No worries! We’ve got you covered with these virtual rewards that work perfectly in the online environment. We promise your students will enjoy them just as much, if not more!
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18 Online Learning Class Rewards
The Sassy Apple's tips for class rewards are to provide choice, buy into their excitement and keep it novel. Here's some options for distance learning rewards that are fun and motivating!
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10 Ways to Make Remote Learning Fun for Students
Laura Levery, a Middle School Teacher, shares some of the fun things that she has been doing with her students virtually. Check it out!
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3 Simple Online Energizers & Icebreakers for Your Virtual Lessons
Energizers help a lot in helping your students to stay focused during virtual lessons. Feel free to modify these energizers to something that are relevant to the topics or subjects that you are teaching.
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15 Fun Classroom Energizers for Students
Lucie lists some fun and engaging motivation activities for the classroom. Students can relax and take an interactive break. They are short and quick games to play in the classroom. They will clear their minds and motivate them to stay focused for the next hour.
- Lucie Renard -
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15 Actionable Strategies for Increasing Student Motivation and Engagement
Here are some great ways to gain the trust of your students and learn what is meaningful to them.
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Got an Unmotivated Student? Try These 12 Tips
No matter how cohesive the class, there’s usually one student who just isn’t, let’s say, feeling it. But what can you do with an unmotivated student? Turns out, quite a lot.
Check out these 12 tips, specifically chosen for language teachers.
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Reward System Does Help!
Read about four teachers' ways of rewarding students' good behavior and motivation. Learn what to give and when and how you can encourage students to improve. Included: 35 reasonable rewards!
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Having trouble motivating your students?
Having trouble motivating your students? This article provides the need-to-know in order to make sure your students are ready to learn.
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Students Lack Interest or Motivation
Regardless of the objective value of an activity or topic, if students do not recognize its value, they may not be motivated to expend effort.
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How to Motivate Students?
This talk is focusing on student motivation, and in particular internal motivation: curiosity and the lust of understanding.
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Motivating the Unmotivated - 10 Ways to Get Your Students to Do Something
Materials available to language teachers are sophisticated and various, but to get the best out of them, teachers need to engage their students’ interest. Teachers need to challenge students, make them curious and encourage them to be imaginative.
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Engage and Motivate Your Students Before the Holiday Break
Projects designed to embrace holiday and seasonal themes—and timed to coincide with the holiday schedule—can relieve pressure on the teacher, enthuse students, and keep them learning and engaged up to the last moment.
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SOLE: Motivate Students to Teach Themselves (and Each Other)
What if we asked our students questions (straight from our curriculum), and then we let them, in groups and with the internet, find the answers themselves? That’s what Dr. Sugata Mitra suggests might motivate and inspire students to learn and teach one another on their own, without adult interference.
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Student Choice and Viral Videos
By creating and self-producing viral videos about their PBL topic, thinking like filmmakers will enhance students' ownership and deepen their learning.
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How to Motivate Learning: Alternatives to Rewards
Proving your students' worth.
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Strategies for Helping Students Motivate Themselves
To inspire intrinsic motivation in students, schools should focus on nurturing their sense of autonomy, competence, relatedness, and relevance.
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