![]() ![]() Students get to work towards something they like.Ģ. Give students time for preferred activities.Īnother great strategy to motivate students is to give them breaks to engage in activities they enjoy, if they have met certain expectations.įor instance, if students complete a writing activity, they may play a game, as an example.ġ. using encouraging words and having a positive attitude.tapping into different learning strengths (e.g, some students learn better with verbal input, others with visual, etc.).Teachers use many strategies to get students motivated to learn. Until then, they just might need us to give them a reason to care. I think we all hope that over time students who are not interested or motivated to complete the work, will find something about school that they see as genuinely interesting and worth learning about. No matter how many times he told me to pay attention, my brain automatically went elsewhere, because there was no internal motivation to learn about it. It kind of reminds me of when my ex-boyfriend talked to me about football. No matter how much we tell them that they have to listen, have to stop talking, have to complete their work, they continue the same behaviors. It is hard to put effort into something you don’t care about. ![]() Then we have our students who do not feel an internal connection to school. I had to be scared for my own future before I acted.Īll kids are different…some find the value in school because they genuinely want to learn and know more, others do worry about their future, others want to please their parents and teachers, the list goes on. I know for me, I didn’t actually care about doing well in school until I realized at 18 that I wasn’t going to graduate if I didn’t get my act together. Unfortunately, many kids don’t find intrinsic value in school. ![]()
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