Re: Unmotivated students

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Have you considered that at this time of the year that your
students are just ready for winter break?

On 12/06/10, Lindsey wrote:
> The students in my 8th grade science class are just not
> motivated! They are all bright students who were all very
> successful in the beginning of the year, but their
> motivation has just progressively gotten worse! They do not
> want to participate and put in very little effort into
> their homework and studying.
>
> If anyone has any ways to motiviate these students please
> help! I've heard of using a token economy in younger
> elementary schooled classrooms and am looking for some
> feedback on the use of this system in older classrooms. Has
> anyone tried this before? Was it successful? My goal is to
> both intrinsically and extrinsically motivate my students
> to learn, will the token economy only provide extrinsic
> motivation for my students? Please help!
 

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