Motivating
Was a good course. Many good conversations here already, thank you for sharing. Something I've implemented this semester to engage the students, provide them influence, or control, choice and feel personally involved is to allow my class to select a committee to determine homework from the days curriculum. It is a committee of 3 so there is a tie breaker. Each class the nominated have to be selected from those that have not yet been selected. They seem to really enjoy it. Creates conversation and so far, enthusiasm and engagement with a high return rate of quality and timely results. My students are part of our creative schools and it seems to be very popular and quite successful. I look forward to implementing even more tactics from this lesson to increase my effectiveness.
I have recently offered my students the opportunity to choose lab topics. I provide a list of choices, and they can choose which ones to complete, as well as the order with which they would like to complete these tasks. It is working out very well. My students seem to be motivated and engaged with regard to this process.
Hello James,
Thanks for your forum, I learned a lot from the class and your own tactics that you have shared to motivated your students by giving them a sense of onwership in making decisions. This provides a great insight about ways to enhance student's motivation.
