Motivational+Ideas

Helpful Tips to Motivate Students:
 * Send positive notes home to parents when students do well in class [[image:images.jpg width="207" height="154" align="right"]]
 * When the teacher is enthusiastic, the students can feel the excitement and will become excited as well
 * Set achievable short-term goals that students can accomplish and then feel proud of their achievements- with this, it is important to emphasize student improvement
 * Encourage students when they make improvements and encourage them to continue working hard to succeed more
 * Relate lessons to students' everyday lives so they are more motivated to learn the topic and understand the application the lesson has to their personal lives
 * Open-format Fridays to motivate students to be at class, do their work, and follow class rules during the week (at the end of the week, they can choose some of the activities for Friday whether it be a lecture, discussion, video, class jeopardy, or a class act of a scene from a book or history)
 * Display good student work in the classroom to encourage students and motivate them to work hard on future assignments [[image:Pic Idea 5.jpg width="188" height="251" align="right"]]
 * Set positive expectations for students- students will work to meet your expectations so if the teacher sets expectations for them to succeed the students are more likely to succeed, but if the teacher communicates the belief that students will fail then students are more likely to fail
 * When a student is struggling with a concept or activity, the teacher should visualize what success looks like with the concept so the student has an idea of how to accomplish the goal
 * Teach lessons to reach students of all learning styles in the class so all students understand the lessons and are motivated to pay attention to the lessons
 * Friendly competition to motivate students to practice concepts they have learned and review the lesson
 * Reward students when they behave well or do well (examples include finishing the class novel will be rewarded by watching the movie for the book as a class, a pizza party is the entire class gets 80% or higher on a test, or stickers for good work)
 * Build community in the class so students feel comfortable to try new things in the class and are motivated to try in the class
 * Let students work in groups together so they can motivate and encourage one another
 * Make lessons fun to engage students and motivate them to be active in the learning

Resources for Ideas of Ways to Motivate Students: >
 * [|Elementary Matters]- ten ideas of ways to motivate students in the class including using stickers or special recognition
 * [|Scholastic]- another source that provides nine ideas of ways to motivate students and excite them in the classroom
 * [|About.com]- specific ways to motivate students in the subject area of reading in the classroom
 * [|Education World]- provides 25 different ideas from 25 different teachers of ways to motivate students with their reading
 * [|Teach Hub]- the source states what the author believes to be the top 12 ways to motivate students in all areas of the class
 * [|Suite 101]- focuses on the importance of motivating students at a level where they will stay motivated at school even when they face academic challenges with methods such as promoting metacognitive reflection, encouraging appropriate attributions, and building self-efficacy
 * [|Global Post]- shares ideas of ways to motivate students to complete their homework which teachers can share with parents to aid them at home as their children work on homework
 * [|Personal.ashland.edu]- the document highlights the importance of motivating students, ways to motivate students, and the various reasons why students need to be motivated in the classroom
 * [|ASHA Sphere]- provides ten different ways to motivate the unmotivated students which can prove to be a challenge for some teachers
 * [|Intervention Central]- focuses on how praise has been found to be one of the best ways to motivate students in the classroom and the role that praise can play in the class