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My topic is student motivation, I chose this topic because I wanted to understand why motivating students is important in an educational setting. Not only does motivating students help with behavior management it also promotes healthy relationships between students and teachers. This is an important topic to teach to students because most of the time thy lack motivation and don't fully understand the advantages to being motivated and the positive outcomes there are. I would teach this topic by having students create a vison board in which they write or show their academic goals or personal goals that will motivate them individually and in school.

Questions:

1) What motivates you to try your best in school-and what makes it hard to stay motivated?

2) What helps you stay motivated in class or in an assignment?

3) Do you believe motivation comes from within yourself or from people around you (friends, parents, teachers, family members)?

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22 Motivation Activity Ideas for Students 

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22 Motivation Activity Ideas for Students 

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Link: 22 Motivation Activity Ideas for Students - Teaching Expertise

Description: This article provides unique ways to motivate students and helps them think outside the box with creative and unique activities that will motivate students. These activities such as a vision board can help students represent their academic and personal goals using images, quotes and symbols.

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Lesson Plan: Activities to Enhance Student Motivation and Engagement

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Lesson Plan: Activities to Enhance Student Motivation and Engagement

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Link: Activities_to_Enhance_Student_Motivation_and_Engagement.pdf

Description: This guide includes various activities to do with students that promotes student motivation in class. Such as sharing culture traditions, personal improvement journal, and student led service project. These are just a few examples of how I can incorporate these activities to motivate students in various ways that make them feel involved in unique ways.

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Link: Achievement Motivation – Moving Beyond High School: Essential Skills and Attitudes

Description: This is a two-day lesson that introduces students to the concept of achievement motivation and exposes students to understand the how failure can't be avoided. This lesson includes motivation worksheet, discussion of Theory of Achievement Motivation, and reflecting on personal motives. This lesson plan aligns with my topic as it discusses the importance of understanding why it is important to be motivate and different strategies to motive them.

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Multiple Studies Show Khan Academy Drives Learning Gains: Evidence for Our Platform’s Effectiveness. By Phil Grimaldi, Senior Efficacy and Research Scientist at Khan Academy.

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Link: Multiple Studies Show Khan Academy’s Effectiveness in Driving Learning Gains - Khan Academy Blog

Description: This blog shows how increased use of platform correlates with significant learning gains. It focuses on the role of self-paced, mastery-based learning in enhancing student motivation. Khan Academy shows how students are more motivated to work when seeing the effectiveness of this tool.

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Using Incremental Progress to Foster Students’ Intrinsic Motivation. By Cathleen Beachboard.

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Link: Fostering Intrinsic Motivation in Students | Edutopia

Description: This article shows different ways to build intrinsic motivation in students. Such as breaking task into manageable steps to further met student's needs. This approach focuses on five tools small experiments, progress boards, backward design, feedback loops, and celebrating small wins.

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A Powerful Strategy for Fostering Student Motivation. By Jenny Gieras

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Link: A Powerful Strategy for Fostering Student Motivation in Virtual or Hybrid Classrooms | Edutopia

Description: This article discusses an innovative way to motivate students that fosters creativity. This is done by having students' complete portfolios to reinforce positive ownership and creativity. This can be used in my class to help students feel confident and motivated through the work they produce.

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Five key ingredients for improving student motivation. By Hoàng Yến

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Link: (PDF) Five key ingredients for improving student motivation

Description: This article addresses five critical factors that impact student motivation: student, teacher, content, method/process, and environment. This article offers educators suggestion from each of these areas and examples on how to motivate students effectively. Motivating students starts with the teacher's role and can be achieved by making students feel special, welcomed, and embraced in class.

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Summary: This simple yet profound book follows a girl named Vashti who believes she is not capable of drawing. This is until a small dot appears on her paper that initiates this spark of creativity that sets her on a journey or creative confidence. This book shows a great metaphor for how taking the first step and finding motivation in personal progress, not perfection. This book is great to help students see how trying new things can motivate students to believe in themselves.

Questions:

1) What does Vashti's journey teach us about how our mindset can shape our motivation?

2) How does the teacher's reaction to Vashti's dot impact her sense of self-worth and motivation?

3) How can we shift our mindset to be more open to growth and mistakes?

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Improving Student Motivation. A Guide for Teachers and School Improvement Teams. By Meece, Judith; McColskey, Wendy.

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Link: ERIC - ED410197 - Improving Student Motivation. A Guide for Teachers and School Improvement Teams., 1997

Description: This guide explores research based for helping students' self-motivation improve. This guide provides different methods such as an effective classroom environment, teacher-student relationships, and instructional methods. This guide mentions different ways to motivate students such as how their attendance and discipline plays a big role in how motivated they are in class. Task persistence and accepting each other errors also is mentioned in this guide to help students realize how their effort is seen and valued.

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What Do You Do With a Problem? by Kobi Yamada, illustrated by Mae Besom

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Summary: This book shows us the result of avoiding a problem that with time seems to grow bigger the more it is avoided. This book follows a young boy who runs away from his problem which as a result only makes it worse. As the boy realizes running away will not fix anything he inspects the problem closer. Ultimately, he sees that inside every problem is an opportunity to grow and do something remarkable.

Questions:

1) How does the narrator’s relationship with the problem change over time, and what does that suggest about the power of perspective?

2) How does avoidance affect motivation, and what strategies can help reverse that?

3) The story ends with the idea that inside a problem is an opportunity. Do you agree or disagree? Why?