Motivation in The Classroom
Getting children motivated in the classroom is one of the hardest parts of being a teacher. There are many methods of trying to motivate children, and in the article Readers: Five ways to motivate students by Meris Stansbury. Stansbury has a few ideas on how to get students interested in your class and want to learn.
The title says it all, Stansbury gave five different ways to help motivate your students. The first idea that he has is to give them access to the internet and let them do things online. She gives three ways to achieve this. They are “(1) Integrating Web 2.0 tools into the learning process through mind-mapping or storyboarding; (2) Viewing, deconstructing, and evaluating electronic media in preparation …show more content…
She believes that “Hands down, the best environment to stimulate intrinsic motivation is PBL.” (Stansbury) Stansbury believes that you need to give the children problem and let them figure this out on their own instead of having the teacher lecture them on what is correct. She believes that when you do this they will learn better by communicating with others and not get bored by listening to the teacher. Her third point was to have teambuilding exercises. She looked at Drake university, which had a program that had coaches sit in classrooms and professors and faculty go to sports team’s practices and games. They learned from each other on how they teach the students or student athletes. It also taught them how to get them motivated, because some ways of motivation work both in the classroom and on the gridiron. The schools now use more teambuilding exercises to try and figure out what motivates the students. Both learned from each other. The fourth way to motivate your students is to try and get them to …show more content…
Her first point, allowing students to use the internet to learn, I absolutely agree with. When I am in school, when I can use the internet I was always way more interested in the subject then if my teacher was just lecturing to me. All the kids in my school were always very excited to use the computers. Her second point, letting the students run the classroom, I agree with partially. When I was in school I loved when we got to figure out problems on our own. However, If a teacher were to use this method all the time, the students would get bored. In my personal experience the teachers who used this frequently had very distracted learners, and kids would not focus on the subject but focus on their own thing. The third point, using teambuilding, was a point that I disagreed with. As someone who aspires to be a High school teacher and football coach, I will be teaching two completely different ways, and they could not be used in each other’s situation. When I’m in the classroom, I will be doing very different things then on the football field. The kids on the football field would not listen to me at all if I taught them like I was there teacher. I saw this personally as I had people who were my teacher and coach. They seemed to be two completely different people with different ways of teaching. The fourth point, having kids become community leaders, just does not work for me. I do not understand how the
Getting children motivated in the classroom is one of the hardest parts of being a teacher. There are many methods of trying to motivate children, and in the article Readers: Five ways to motivate students by Meris Stansbury. Stansbury has a few ideas on how to get students interested in your class and want to learn.
The title says it all, Stansbury gave five different ways to help motivate your students. The first idea that he has is to give them access to the internet and let them do things online. She gives three ways to achieve this. They are “(1) Integrating Web 2.0 tools into the learning process through mind-mapping or storyboarding; (2) Viewing, deconstructing, and evaluating electronic media in preparation …show more content…
She believes that “Hands down, the best environment to stimulate intrinsic motivation is PBL.” (Stansbury) Stansbury believes that you need to give the children problem and let them figure this out on their own instead of having the teacher lecture them on what is correct. She believes that when you do this they will learn better by communicating with others and not get bored by listening to the teacher. Her third point was to have teambuilding exercises. She looked at Drake university, which had a program that had coaches sit in classrooms and professors and faculty go to sports team’s practices and games. They learned from each other on how they teach the students or student athletes. It also taught them how to get them motivated, because some ways of motivation work both in the classroom and on the gridiron. The schools now use more teambuilding exercises to try and figure out what motivates the students. Both learned from each other. The fourth way to motivate your students is to try and get them to …show more content…
Her first point, allowing students to use the internet to learn, I absolutely agree with. When I am in school, when I can use the internet I was always way more interested in the subject then if my teacher was just lecturing to me. All the kids in my school were always very excited to use the computers. Her second point, letting the students run the classroom, I agree with partially. When I was in school I loved when we got to figure out problems on our own. However, If a teacher were to use this method all the time, the students would get bored. In my personal experience the teachers who used this frequently had very distracted learners, and kids would not focus on the subject but focus on their own thing. The third point, using teambuilding, was a point that I disagreed with. As someone who aspires to be a High school teacher and football coach, I will be teaching two completely different ways, and they could not be used in each other’s situation. When I’m in the classroom, I will be doing very different things then on the football field. The kids on the football field would not listen to me at all if I taught them like I was there teacher. I saw this personally as I had people who were my teacher and coach. They seemed to be two completely different people with different ways of teaching. The fourth point, having kids become community leaders, just does not work for me. I do not understand how the