Motivating Students
How do you motivate students in "required" or pre-requisite course?
Mary,
I wish you much success as you try out these ideas. I am sure you are going to like the results you achieve.
Gary
Gary Meers, Ed.D.
This course has given me inspiration. I have come up with a few ideas to try out in my classes to motivate students to use better grammar outside the classroom. I can't wait to try them out.
Frank,
Using these examples are what help to make the content real to and for the students.
Gary
Gary Meers, Ed.D.
I like to motivate my students by puting real world experiences to show how the class or lesson that we are doing will be used in the field.
James,
This is a very effective model to use as you know. The model enables students to know only learn the content but to also reinforce it in their memory bank by sharing it with others.
Gary
Gary Meers, Ed.D.
The most important thing is for students to understand why it's so important to their field of learning. I find that works best when I can directly relate it to their goals.
On the first class day, I will usually ask each student what their primary career goal is. Then I relate how exactly the course content will relate to their goals. I try to regularly enforce that relationship throughout the course.
I incorporate learning projects that the students develop to teach their small group class objectives covered in class.
Tonia,
Since I teach such a course I face this challenge every time I enter the classroom. What I have found to be effective are examples and applications of my course content in the lives of my students. Show them examples and then have them use the course content outside of the classroom and then come back and report how they used the information. They get really excited when they get to make such applications and then the required course becomes less hated and more appreciated.
Gary
Gary Meers, Ed.D.
