Increasing Student Motivation in
Junior Grades. Find Out HOW!!
Increasing student motivation by making your students' education experiences interesting, challenging and rewarding is a key ingredient to their success as they move through the junior grades on through high school and university.
Classroom team building activities are a key component in developing student motivation especially in the junior grades. Team building activities may also attract the unmotivated students you have in your class. Remember that you must gain students' respect which is vital in creating an atmosphere where learning is a positive, meaningful and valuable experience. Hopefully you've read my page on
motivation to learn
which is for primary grade students. Your students' primary grade teachers may have used the same or similar teaching strategies as I have recommended, to start building your students' enthusiasm towards learning. As I said earlier - teaching strategies that offer praise, encouragement and perhaps involve a reward system have proven to be extremely beneficial to increasing student motivation. One year, one of my mentees was given a very difficult class - there were a lot students with behavioral problems and it was a very challenging situation. Watch my video and read about the
classroom rewards system
we came up with. This reward system started off slowly, but by the end of the year, proved to be quite successful and the students loved it! This reward system played a large role in building student motivation in my classrooms, for me, my mentees and my student teachers. Classroom meetings are another very useful tool for developing student motivation and for classroom team building. How? Click here and read about my
Classroom Team Building Activities
where I talk about "Special Talk and Student of the Week" that will be sure to end the week off on a high note.
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