Student Motivation

Who am I? 6 years sailing instruction 2 years in Middle School Masters in Secondary English and ESOL American High School English and Creative Writing 2nd year at HaeSeong Girls' High School NSET trainer

Let's get into groups of 3! Please select a: 1)note-taker; 2)discussion leader; 3)speaker.

What do we know motivates students? Talk to your group. Discuss what you have found effective for motivating all students. MotivationMotivation

The Motivation Continuum MotivationMotivation MotivatingUnmotivating Choice Group discussion/projects Relevancy

"I like seeing and talking to my classmates." "In science we always study material that will be useful later in life." "My history teacher presents information in a way that is easy to understand." "I like learning stuff that is or will be important." Here's what students say:

So, we know what makes students more interested in school. Now, what? What can we do to accommodate more motivation and learning in our classes?

Cooperative Learning Groups Talk to your group. How have you been successful with cooperative learning in your classes?

How can we improve cooperative learning? How can we incorporate more opportunities for cooperative learning in our classroom? Talk to your group.

Here's what the research says: For cooperative learning groups to be most effective: Heterogeneous groups Individual and group accountability Group goals Activities: - Group projects - Publishing - Research - Jigsaws - Presentations

Storytelling Jigsaw - students have different stories - students become "experts" - students return to the group to share their knowledge - the combined knowledge of the group is used to accomplish a task

Effective Activities In your experience, what does it mean to plan "effective activities?" How do we design lessons and activities that are "meaningful?"

What do "Multiple Intelligences" mean to you? Talk to your group.

Multiple Intelligence Activities Make content more understandable Allow students to demonstrate their learning in creative/interesting ways Demonstrate to students that we respect their interests.

Drawing and Linking Verbs Excellent for visual learners Sounds Smell s Taste s Feel s Look s The music sounds terrible. Subject linking verb complaint.

TPR and grammar tenses Students role- play tenses. Students learn from seeing and doing. Simple: I exercise. Progressive: I am exercising. Perfect progressive: I have been exercising. Perfect: I have exercised.

Why have students do projects and presentations? The Value of Research Projects and Presentations

Every student must have an active role in the group's success! Easiest way to accomplish this? Everyone has a leadership role! Director Discussion director Presentation director Design director Resources manager Illustrator

Use of prior knowledge Vygotsky's theory of "knowledge + 1" Demonstrates their interests and experiences have value - relevancy Students like it!

Success!! When do students start disliking school? How can we get our students to feel more successful? Success + challenge = motivation People like doing things they are good at.

Relevancy Students want learning that is relevant. What does this mean to you?

Authentic Material and Audiences Newspapers True stories/biographies Contemporary media Social concerns My world here and now My future Authentic Input Authentic Output Contemporary media Class compilations Letters Creative writing Real audiences

The Power of Reading Stephen Krashen In every assessment SSR (sustained silent reading) - or free reading - demonstrated it far exceeds any other instructional technique for improving second language acquisition. Shared reading - teacher reads or uses recorded book. Students select their own books. SSR 10 minutes in every class Teacher must read with their students.

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