Motivational+Ideas

 Motivating Students

1) Reward- Students who have trouble staying focused and have little motivation to finish their work need to be offered the opportunity to receive rewards. Rewards can help motivate the student. Only reward correct behavior and answers. Students continue or repeat behavior that is rewarded. Rewards should be small. Ms. Ann uses skittles or gummy bears. if a student scores a 70% or higher on success maker the student can get the reward. She will also take the skittles into her co-teaching classrooms to reward correct behavior during groups. She only hands out a skittle to the students who were listening and answering questions.

2) care- Students respond with motivation when the teacher shows she cares about her students.

3) Have the students participate- Active involvement of the students is a major key to motivation. Standing in front of the classroom, not moving around, and teaching can lose students' attention real quick. It's important to get the students involved in activities, help the teacher, work in groups, or other ways to physically get involved in the lesson.

4) Make learning visual- drawings, pictures, charts, graphs, videos on the computer, 3-dimensional objects, are all great visuals to use during lessons.

5) Sing songs- Kindergarten has a song for everything!!! Kids repeat these songs every day. Some songs are about days of the week, months of the year, money, and rhyming songs.

6) Give informative feedback- Give the students feedback on both strengths and weaknesses.

7) Make the classroom attractive- Students will be more motivated in a classroom that looks fun and cheerful.

8) Achieve success- Guide the students towards achieving success rather than avoiding failure.

9) Place a value on learning- teach things that are worth learning in ways that help students appreciate their learning.

10) Games- Involve fun learning games such as around the world with a math lesson.

11) Praise- students always love praise.