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The Do's and Don'ts of Motivating Students
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Grade everything.
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Use assessments that do not inform instruction.
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Lack cooperative learning practices.
don't
Give Unforgiving deadlines.
don't
Lack resources
don't
Have unannounced quizzes.
don't
"Keep score."
don't
Limit instruction to one learning style.
don't
Draw negative attention to student's culture or langugae.
don't
Use sarcasm.
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Provide class time for aesthetic reading and encourage it inside and outside the school.
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Promote wide reading and discuss differences(e.g., text structure, purpose, organization) between aesthetic (live through the text) and efferent (carries information from text) reading.
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Make sure everyone knows each other in your classroom by names. This is particularly difficult but absolutely essential in the secondary classroom.
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Create opportunities for students to participate in large- and small-group discussions, and choose with whom, and how, they would like to share their thoughts and reflections.
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Create a classroom that encourages risk.
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Set high expectations and provide scaffolds to help students meet their goals.
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Celebrate students' diversity in culture, language, reading, family, apparel, etc. Adolescents need to be recognized as individuals.
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