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1. Rewards: Rewards and privileges are great motivational tools for hard work. Teachers

can use a variety of them to encourage student participation.

Examples of privileges or rewards are as follows: Lunch with the teacher allows

students to come back to the classroom and it helps foster student-teacher

relationship. Extra center time allows students to have a few more minutes at a

computer lab. Snacks can be offered as incentives.2. Expectations: Teachers should set reasonable objectives for every lesson that allow

their students to progress in the classroom. Expect students to achieve the objectives,

and they will. Studies show that students achieve at higher rates when their teachers

have high expectations for them.

3. Relevance: Show students how what they are learning matters in real life. Guide

students to discuss the new material, and allow students to draw on their own

experiences to learn and understand the new material.

4. Incorporate different learning styles: Use a variety of strategies in the classroom to

facilitate the lesson. Classroom discussions consist of whole group learning.

5. Involve the kid's family. : "The school is only one of the two principal socializing

institutions in society, the other being the family," Students want more support at home for learning. Hence wherever possible involve the families as much as possible.

6. Praise Students: Recognize work in class, display good work in the classroom and send

positive notes home to parents and hold weekly awards in your classroom

7. Track Improvement: In those difficult classes, it can feel like a never-ending uphill

battle, so try to remind students that they’ve come a long way. Set achievable, short-

term goals, emphasis improvement, keep self-evaluation forms to fill out and compare

throughout the year, or revisit mastered concepts that they once struggled with to

refresh their confidence.

8. Organize Field Trips

9. Have a fun incentive for doing well on standardized test

10. Hold a poetry slam: When kids are given opportunities to perform and share in a

public forum, they rise to the challenge. They put out their best effort to express

themselves, and it takes the learning to a much deeper place.

11. Have students participate: One of the major keys to motivation is the active

involvement of students in their own learning. Standing in front of them and lecturing

to them (at them?) is thus a relatively poor method of teaching. It is better to get

students involved in activities or in some other way getting physically involved in the

lesson. A lesson about nature, for example, would be more effective walking outdoors

than looking at pictures.

12. Make learning visual: Even before young people were reared in a video environment,

it was recognized that memory is often connected to visual images. We can providebetter learning by attaching images to the ideas we want to convey. Use drawings,

diagrams, pictures, charts, graphs, bulleted lists, even three-dimensional objects you

can bring to class to help students anchor the idea to an image.

It is very helpful to begin a class session or a series of classes with a conceptual

diagram of the relationship of all the components in the class so that at a glance

students can apprehend a context for all the learning they will be doing. This will

enable them to develop a mental framework or filing system that will help them to

learn better and remember more.

13. Provide positive feedback: Inspire students and reinforce that they can do well.

Evaluate student work as soon as possible after project completion, and be sure that

the feedback is clear and constructive.



14. Build quality relationships with students: Students like to feel that teachers are

involved in their lives. Take time to get to know the students and talk to them

individually. Student engagement encourages a positive connection and motivation to

work harder towards positive results.



1. Play – Have fun, enjoy, enthuse and bring energy to the room. “No-one ever achieved anything

without enthusiasm” Emerson

2. Personal – School is about life. Indulge your students and listen to their stories. Indulge yourself –

Share your stories with them… if it benefits them

3. Provoke – Ask questions about life; ask questions about the topic – it gets them to think. It’s

powerful when they get to see things through their own minds !

4. Praise – Catch people doing things right. Be focused on praise BUT be specific and sincere. The

praise should be focused on effort and improvement – this is always effective. We all need to feel

good enough.

5. Power – Let your students determine some of the agenda or make certain rules. This gets them

feeling like they’re ‘in charge’ without you losing contr ol.

6. Projects – These are very powerful mechanisms for connecting different skills and knowledge and

harnessing natural curiosity.

7. Positive People – This gets them to learn quickly how to behave in a positive manner.

8. Prizes – Rewards can be powerful when they are unannounced and not too familiar. Prizes can beas innocuous or as humorous as you like.

9. Prestige – All children need to feel important – some more than others – so prestige and

recognition are fundamental. Consistent encouragement and opportunities to showcase talent are

important.

10. Principled - People like rules but only if they 'work', rules that are broken or made up for the sake

of it breakdown the trust. Trust is absolute.

That’s it!

These techniques are NOT magic as you can see; they’re just ways of keeping people focused when

their natural attention wanes. It’s incredibly powerful, it’s effective and…

…it’s a lot of fun. www.thebigpicture.eu.com

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