In the article, “How to Motivate Students: Top 12 Ways,” by Annie Condron, give classroom management tips. It can be hard to motivate students especially in the first year of teaching. Students tend to have short attention spans. The first tip, to grab their attention is to praise the students in big and small ways. Students like to know when they are doing well. The next step is to set the expectations for the class high. After that is to spread make excitement contagious.
Even though a classroom should be well managed, it is okay to change it up from time to time. Going along changing things up, give the students jobs and rotate the students through each job. Students can even be given the opportunity to choose their own jobs. Let the students have some control in the class. They like to feel like they are incharge. Taking it to the next level, you can allow your students to decide what you do on Fridays. The students can pick between lecture, discussion, study time, or what will work in your class. Another important thing to do is to relate the lessons to the students’ lives. Students tend to care more about what they are learning when they apply it to their lives. Don’t be afraid to show them the improvement that they have made. There are several more tips as well, but I thought that the ones that I listed were the most important from the list in helping the students who do not want to be in the class to participate in the class. A lot of these tips we have already talked about. I think that the best thing to do to help the kid that does not want to be there is to give them a responsibility. When students have a job to do, they feel like they are important and needed in the class. It may not work will all cases. Also changing how you do things and making sure that your class if fun and informative at the same time. How to Motivate Students: Top 12 Ways. (n.d.). Retrieved March 29, 2018, from http://www.teachhub.com/top-12-ways-motivate-students
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