Motivation for Young Children (1st-3rd Grade) by damarisg

How to assess your child's main motivator

dcgonza5 — 2014-10-30 19:52:53 UTC

This blog post provides a simple checklist to help parents (or teachers!) identify a child's main source of motivation. Once you identify the type of motivation that best influences your child or student's personality, this blogpost also provides idea specific to each type.

Brittany

A Peach for the Teach

dcgonza5 — 2014-10-30 19:52:53 UTC

http://apeachfortheteach.blogspot.com/2013/12/eight-human-needs-how-to-motivate.html

Family Reading Adventure Packs

avtorre1 — 2014-10-30 19:59:31 UTC

Parents can encourage their young readers by participating in take home reading activities. This article explains the benefits when reading to your child or simple engaging in the take home activities that correlate to their reading. These adventure packs include reading and fun activities put together by a teacher to motivate students to read with their families.

Motivating Students

BrittanyBerry — 2014-10-30 20:27:51 UTC

These strategies are from Vanderbilt University and provide educators and parents with strategic ways of getting their students and children motivated. The motivation comes in both intrinsic and extrinsic form and this resource also provides us with the effects of motivation, a model of intrinsic motivation, and phrases that will capture student's attention and curiosity.

- Brittany

Intrinsic Motivation

BrittanyBerry — 2014-10-30 20:35:05 UTC

Of course, educators and parents must be encouraging and build up their students confidence, but motivation is also intrinsic. Students must find what motivates them and relate the task or topic to themselves in order for them to actually want to participate and learn. The chart below will help students discover what motivates them and also gives educators a look into the different styles of intrinsic motivation and how we can incorporate them in our classrooms.

- Brittany

More Strategies to Motivate Your Students

avtorre1 — 2014-11-11 21:50:52 UTC

This article outlines some of the strategies that have proven to be effective. The article provides information about understanding motivation as a teacher and knowing how to structure your class to instill motivation in your class, Setting the tone in your class by setting guidelines and expections early in the year, giving students options in their learning, and varying teaching methods are some of the important points made by this article. Additional outside resources are also provided for more information.

9 Steps to Build Motivation in a Child

avtorre1 — 2014-11-11 22:02:35 UTC

This short article provides nine steps that can effectively address a child's lack of motivation by communicating closely with the child. This article outlines each step clearly to guide parents and teachers. Teachers can benefit from this step by step process in the classroom because it is simple and can easily be incorporated into the class along with other strategies.

10 SUREFIRE TIPS FOR MOTIVATING ESL LEARNERS

bozamor1 — 2014-11-11 23:48:24 UTC

This website provides teachers 10 valuable tips to motivate English Language Learners. Many teachers have at least one ELL student in their classroom. Most teachers have a limited knowledge when it comes down to working with ELL’s. -Blanca

Motivating Children to Learn English

bozamor1 — 2014-11-12 00:05:05 UTC

The ESL article gives 6 useful tips/ideas to teachers working with younger ELL students. Article also gives feedback on what teachers thought about this article.

Shelley Vernon’s (person who wrote article) also provides a link at the bottom of the article to receive free English Language games. www.teachingenglishgames.com

-Blanca

Finding the Spark: More Tips for Building Student Motivation

hbolanos — 2014-11-12 20:00:15 UTC

This website covers 5 areas of motivation which are "making positive changes to the learning environment, fostering a sense of community in the classroom, enhancing the interest of classroom activities, responding to individual learning challenges, and building in additional outcomes for learning"(Intervention, 2014).-holly

21 Simple Ideas to Improve Student Motivation

hbolanos — 2014-11-12 20:11:54 UTC

This website offers 21 different ways teachers can motivate students to learn. This website considers not only intrinsic motivation but also extrinsic motivation.-holly

Motivating Learning in Young Children

hbolanos — 2014-11-12 20:17:58 UTC

This article focuses on motivation in young children. The first concept reviewed is the characteristics of motivation in young children. The second concept is learning how to develop motivation in young children. The final concept reviewed is learning ways to enhance motivation.-holly

A Pep Talk for Students

dcgonza5 — 2014-11-12 22:03:49 UTC

This short, 4 minute video from the Kid President will be sure to infect parents and kids alike with its bubbly outlook on school. Showing this video in your classroom or to your kids at home can set the tone for a positive outlook on each new school day.

Goal Countdown For Kids

dcgonza5 — 2014-11-12 22:17:35 UTC

This goal worksheet found on WhileHeWasNapping.com is an easy way to take any parent from reading on HOW to motivate your child to actually setting goals for the school year. Some of the goals your child sets could turn into hobbies or at the very least provide a great opportunity for family time.

Positive Reinforcement at Home

dcgonza5 — 2014-11-12 22:33:54 UTC

The following charts and rewards can be used to motivate kids at home or at school. Giving students a tangible, short term goal where they can measure their improvement often increases motivation. The blog post accompanying the printable includes other links to website on behavior management strategies and tips for using the rewards system.

Setting Goals that will Motivate your Students

avtorre1 — 2014-11-13 03:03:39 UTC

Setting goals is a great way to motivate your students. However when setting goals it is important to make sure they are specific, attainable, measurable, realistic, and timely in order for students to reach them and feel motivated to continue to strive for other goals. Students will feel proud to meet goals they have set for themselves as well, with the guidance of a parent or teacher. This chart outlines the important elements to keep in mind when setting goals that will yield success in students.

What Keeps Students Motivated to Learn?

pamillan — 2014-11-13 03:35:36 UTC

In Katrina Schwartz’ post on Mind Shift, she gives six in class activities or methods that students have reported have helped keep them motivated in school. In this article, students give reasons behind why these strategies were motivational. The students provided their opinions on why they were motivated from these different categories at a panel. Some of these strategies include interest-based content, hands on projects, and learning from failure. Since the students provide their own personal reasons, this article is valuable to teachers because they can see just how motivation happens in the classroom. Seeing what the students value in a classroom gives stronger reasons to why teachers need to use motivational methods in the classroom. The more methods of motivation teachers use in the classroom, the more students will be engaged in their learning.

-Paige

10 Ways to Motivate the Unmotivated Student

pamillan — 2014-11-13 03:37:49 UTC

T.J. Ragan is a speech pathologist and in this article, she provides 10 different ways to get students out of their “funks” and become motivated enough to participate in her class. Her methods include physical activity, rewarding students with free time, and challenging students to beat their own records. All of her suggestions on how to motivate her students come with an underlying message that the best way to motivate students is to get to know them and play on their interests. She explains that she understands why some students are not motivated to do their work in class, and her way of remedying that is to make them find a way to enjoy that activity. Essentially never allowing the student to be stuck doing a lot of work that he or she does not like without ever being able to do what he or she do enjoy. Give students rewards for their efforts.

One of the strongest suggestions I found to be practical in the classroom is to praise students to other teachers or in front of peers. It is important that students have their confidence built up. If students hear praises about themselves, they will have more motivation to continue on that path.

-Paige

Lesson Plan to Motivate Students

pamillan — 2014-11-13 03:40:48 UTC

This short lesson plan posted by Laura Gurley on the site The Teachers Lounge provides an easy activity a teacher can use in her classroom to motivate her students to become the people they want to be. In this lesson, students get to think about what it is they want their future to look like. They then have to talk about what it will take to achieve those dreams. The main lesson of this activity is that the students will have to work hard in order to achieve their dreams.

Giving students a real world understanding on why being in school is important, this lesson motivates students to work harder and fight for their dreams. In a classroom, this activity can be modified to be even more personal and motivational. Instead of doing the activity as a whole class, it can be made into an individual activity in which students will have to think deeply about all that motivate them and what they need to do in order to achieve their goals.

-Paige

How to Motivate Students: Top 12 Ways

pamillan — 2014-11-13 04:05:00 UTC

There are many different tips and tricks to use in a classroom to motivate students. In Annie Condron’s article on the site Teach Hub, she provides 12 techniques for motivation that she believes work the best in the classroom. Her tips for motivation range from setting expectations in the classroom to rewarding behavior outside of the classroom. A teacher can use these ways of motivation in the classroom easily. Suggestions such as assigning students jobs will give the students more control over their learning, as well as provide them with motivation to be a leader in the classroom. Also handing over control is another method suggested for the classroom. Giving the students choices in the class will make them care about what they are learning and find more enjoyment in their classwork. Teachers can use many of these strategies at once in order to optimize the amount of motivation that occurs in the classroom.

-Paige

Theories of Motivation and ESL Students

bozamor1 — 2014-11-13 05:31:28 UTC

This website is about some motivational theories that you as a teacher can apply to in you mainstream classroom. In addition to the theories it also shows the description of the theory along with some implications you might come across to, and how to deal with them. Having English language students in a mainstream classroom can be quite difficult.

-Blanca

New ways to keep your English learners motivated

bozamor1 — 2014-11-13 05:41:23 UTC

This short blog gives examples on how to keep your English language learners motivated in a mainstream classroom.

The blog mentions transforming each class time into a game, how to use software to keep students engaged, and games to use in small groups as well as at home.

“For students trying to master a second language, learning how to overcome failure can boost in-class achievement and long-term success.”

-Blanca

Homeworkopoly!

BrittanyBerry — 2014-11-13 18:20:38 UTC

This is a simple, yet effective and awesome game teachers can use to encourage and motivate their students to turn in assignments. It uses positive reinforcement and incentives to motivate students to complete their homework. The image below is aimed towards upper grades but could easily be reworked for younger students.

For print-outs, game rules and more, click this link: http://web.archive.org/web/20011211220201/www.teachnet.com/homeworkopoly/index.html

- Brittany

Positive Vandlism of School Property

BrittanyBerry — 2014-11-13 18:30:38 UTC

As children, we were taught to never write on our desks or in our books because they were school property. Well now educators can do just that and leave positivity on their students desk! Using washable markers or dry-erase markers, write positive compliments or encouraging quotes on students desks. Not only will the student gain a sense of confidence but the rest of the class will want to emulate their good behaviors so you'll hopefully write on their desk too! It sounds simple, but a little goes a long way with this motivational tip.

- Brittany

ESL and Motivation

hbolanos — 2014-11-13 18:35:53 UTC

This journal article focuses on building motivation in English language learners. This article gives a detailed description of motivation. The classroom environment is an important factor in building motivation in that the students will become more comfortable. Another idea I found most effective for building motivation is pairing students. -holly