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?

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?

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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)?