10 important reasons why it matters to work hard, value education, and take school seriously. Children who understand the many purposes of education will be more motivated to learn, more committed to their studies, more likely to persevere during challenging times, more willing to delay gratification, better able to find meaning in their work, and better able to connect today’s learning to tomorrow’s opportunities.
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Was this an assignment given by your ed professor? It's such a broad and almost silly question. How does your professor incorporate technology in his/her lessons to help motivate you?
My kids have laptops provided by the school and I spend my evenings looking for good interactive websites.
Recognition and rewards platforms like VivoMiles have shown excellent results when it comes to increasing attendance, motivation and improving behaviours. They can be monetary and non-monetary rewards
Hello, I am looking for teachers willing for a phone call / email tomorrow. I am developing a mobile application tool that helps studying for students and allows teachers to see metrics. You can tell us your favorite mobile applicatioon for study so that I can decide what is suitable for teachers needs. Thank you.
I am covering a long-term sub assignment at an inner city high school in NYC teaching math. I have 3 statistics classes (elective w/mostly seniors), and 2 Integrated Algebra Regents Prep courses for students who passed the class last year but not the Regents. The regular teacher had been gone for two months before I got there, w/a series of day-to-day subs. I came in @ the end of March, and have been there a total of 18 days now. As you might imagine, things are extremely chaotic, and I am having difficulty doing any real teaching. (I am also new to teaching high school. In the past, I have taught middle school full time, and taught part time in elementary school.) The algebra classes are supposed to have about 25 students each, but generally somewhere between 10-18 show up. Of those who show up, about half (or less) are on task, and the other half are involved in side conversations, and not paying attention. Also, many of the students say they have passed the Regents' exam and are just there for the extra math credit. Judging by the results of a test I just gave, very few are actually learning anything. WHAT CAN I DO TO TURN THIS SITUATION AROUND???
There are remarkable cultural differences between Brits and Americans. We have even managed to take the single language that is English and turn it into two different languages.
Any article or book that speaks to behavior modification could not be held across cultural boundaries. The incentive to work, the concept of education, the structure of classrooms, the role of the culture's country in the world - these vary tremendously from country to country.
Ellen LaffertyOn 8/31/13, Mackenzee wrote: > What sort of teaching methods could you use to motivate > students who dislike math to at least warm up to the > subject?
The kids for whom math is obtuse an...See MoreOn 8/31/13, Mackenzee wrote: > What sort of teaching methods could you use to motivate > students who dislike math to at least warm up to the > subject?
Math is hard for many people - in fact, for some people it's painfully difficult to grasp mathematical operations and how to do them.
The kids for whom math is obtuse and confusing don't like math. Why would they?
It's also true that math is a tool that was invented to serve other disciplines but fir the most part we pull math out if its actual use and teach it in isolation from its real purposes. We make up problems that are solved rather like a parlor game.
Math reveals truths and enables truth, Without math we could not communicate how far away the sun is or what temperature it is or what time it really is. What is the average income of Americans? What is the richest country on the earth? (Qatar) how do we know that?
Math tells us so. But instead of teaching averages with real data, we use made up problems from a book.
Why should they like that? I tell them just that. When kids tell math teachers they don't like math, I've seen teachers grimace as if the kid stomped on a kitten. It's ok to not like math. Let them know that and let them know our methods for teaching math need some work... "It's not you it's the way the textbook is written" helps them too.
Those thing said I try to show them some real parlor tricks. "Go through one day without using a number or let's have a conversation right now and see if you can answer my questions without referring to numbers/math".
They can't but they have fun trying.
And then I plan my assessments to foster their success - success goes a long way toward helping them to get a new head on in regard to math. No one likes any subject or any activity that they consistently fail or eternally do poorly at.
“People only do their best at things they truly enjoy,” Jack Nicklaus – Hall of Fame golfer. I’m sure we have all experienced this at some point in our lives. For me personally it didn’t happen until my senior year in high school... Click below to read the rest, then please pass it on.
Was this an assignment given by your ed professor? It's such a broad and almost silly question. How does your professor incorporate technology in his/her lessons to help motivate you?
My kids have laptops provided by ...See More