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The purpose of the FBE is for me to become aware of the variety of strategies that can be used to motivate students to engage in learning activities. I have observed the types of motivational strategies used by the classroom teacher and the effect of the strategy on student behavior. The different motivational strategies described in the article Classroom motivation: Strategies for first-year teachers by Timothy Newby are, attention-focusing, relevance, and confidence building. Attention-focusing strategies are those that not only focus attention, but also sustain it by responding to the sensation-seeking needs of students. Relevance strategies emphasize answering questions that make the task seem relevant to the students’ lives. Confidence-building strategies focus on helping the students view the task as challenging but accomplishable. All three strategies mostly concentrate on a specific task indicating intrinsic motivational orientation.

Another way to build student motivation and engagement is to give them real world problems to solve. By doing this, natural conflict arises, and students have to work together in order to resolve the conflict and continue developing a solution to the problem. When this happens, students learn so much about the problem they are trying to solve, but they also learn skills that will help them become successful in life.

When observing Mrs. Mott, she knows all your student’s needs. Each day she continues to ask each student how they are doing every day. I like how Mrs. Mott has a great class and it’s good to have good control of your classroom and it’s because she makes the students feel comfortable. Each day I see Mrs. Mott work with several students who have diverse needs and I could tell that her goals addressed as much as her students’ needs as possible. When students are working at their desk very diligently, they love the one on one attention Mrs. Mott gives them because after they work with Mrs. Mott they can’t stop smiling , with the look of joy on their face. Mrs. Mott is very motivated to get the students to learn and I could tell by her passion

Every student is different, from how they learn to how much effort do they put in when studying. But with the right teacher guiding them to success, nothing is impossible. So, how do we motivate the future generation to succeed in school? The Perils and Promise of Praise, by Carole S. Dweck. The author focus on how to motivate students to succeed in school. From how you talk to them, motivate them to learn and rewarding them.

One of the most essential aspects of the educational process is to know how to motivate students for learning. A challenging part of being a teacher is to know and learn how to motivate students. First of all, a good definition for motivation is as Byrnes quote “Motivation is construct

Ms.bomer tried to keep her classroom manage. But it's hard when you have middle schoolers. Some ways she she keeps her kids on task. She will blow her whistle once and if that doesn't help, she will warn the kids who are the ones who are acting out. And she will tell them if they act out again she will call their parents. Most times that works and they will eventually get back on task . she also does not start speaking until the class is quiet and ready to focus, which takes along time but that's when the whistle comes in and she starts warning everyone because they don't have a lot of time to get through with lessons and do activities. Ms bomer is really good at taking care of behavior issues . if a student is doing something they are not

Throughout the lessons, Miss. Turner keep the class actively engage in learning. She did this, for example, by not using over using one type of teaching method for to long. For an illustration, she would consistently change activities like watching a video to reading every 10 to 15 minutes. A great example of her getting the students engaged would be, how she used the video about the doughnut, to grab the class’s attention and then incorporated the topic into the lesson plan. One classroom management strategy she used to keep the students engaged, was to regularly ask if the students if they had a connection to the settings or the plot of the books they were reading. By doing this, she kept the student interested in their lesson because they

After working very well on his math packet for the first half hour, one student did not want to work on our project of the day, a lenticular print made from folded paper. Even though the first step was only drawing two pictures to use for the project, this student did not want to participate. This confused me; he had been focused on his math, but as soon as the material became what I assumed to be more “fun” and engaging, he lost interest. I tried a few different methods to motivate him, as did some of the staff, but we were unable to get him to really engage in the project. I noticed that I value participation and effort more than how many questions a student gets correct. Grades are definitely important, but I would rather have engaged students who try their best and get a range of grades, because I know that engaged students will improve greatly if they are taught well. I also saw this in my previous job. Students who were not motivated did not progress quickly, while students who were, even those who were years behind, made fast progress. Thus, I think one of my most important tasks as a teacher will be learning to motivate students and help them to engage with

One major problem in the student body today is the lack of motivation kids have in their schoolwork. The most effective way to keep them motivated is an inner motivation within themselves, or an interior motivation, rather than parents and teachers pushing them to do their best, or an exterior motivation. The best ways to do this is to make learning fun and interesting (not boring), and to help them understand why they will need the skills they are learning are for.

I observed that the students were finding themselves hard to concentrate on the lesson plan and I believe there were couple of reasons why the lesson failed to captivate the interest of the students. One of the reason is because, the activity of watching a movie and answering couple questions lacked the critical thinking process. Also, the students had to watch the same story videos from different websites which just seemed meaningless. The materials were extremely repetitive. Throughout the lesson, students had hard time sitting still and seem to lack interest; their heads were on the desks. Lastly, there were no hooks in the lesson plan to captivate the students that will make them desire to learn the

While observing Mrs. Cirrincione, I liked her classroom management skills. The students seemed to know what was expected of them at all times. Mrs. Cirrincione also connected much of the students’ lessons to their personal interests, which means she has taken the time to get to know each of her students. Mrs. Cirrincione pulled sticks throughout the day giving each student the opportunity to participate. Throughout several of the lessons, Mrs. Cirrincione would give the students helpful hints to remember the content. I struggle to remember new content, so I appreciate that Mrs. Cirrincione took the time to teach strategies to help the students

There are different things a teacher can do to trigger this type of motivation in students. “Some examples of

A second way to intrinsically motivate students is to “understand the children” (Specific Classroom Management Methods). Originality and creativity should be encouraged in all students. Make a point to give students opportunities to express themselves in different ways. Each child is unique and self-expression is a great way to learn about each and every student. When starting the year, “Knowing what background your students bring to class and starting the course at an appropriate level can increase a students success and…positive feelings they have about your

There are three teachers in the classroom, one does reading/lesson circle with a small group of students, another does arts and crafts, and one of them circulates throughout the room helping students with their work-plans. The teacher that circulates around the room all the time appears to be the head teacher and when a conflict arises she is the one to mediate it. The way that the teachers speak with the children is as if they are equals, they aren’t talked down to and the students give the teachers complete respect.

Another reason for my interest in student engagement and motivation is the landscape of my own classroom. If you walked into my classroom at during any given school day you would see me teaching students with little to no English