When people use the word listen they mean hear plus do. I do believe that teachers do hear students but maybe far too few students are convinced that the teachers do anything because of what they hear. This blog describes one way for students to know
I confess: I don’t believe in motivation. I don’t believe we can motivate kids to learn. Like you, I learned about intrinsic and extrinsic motivation in my teacher preparation courses. Intrinsic, I was told, is the best, because the student is internally motivated to learn.
One of our themes for March is Student Engagement. Here we've collected some of the best advice on increasing student engagement from Corwin authors and other experts! Study the data. The Quaglia Institute for Student Aspirations (QISA) has done extensive research in what motivates students through their
Contributed by Dave Nagel Part 7 in an 8 part series: Part 1: Identifying the Hibernating Student Part 2: Waking Up the Hibernating Student Part 3: Identifying the Perspiring Student Part 4: Cooling Off the Perspiring Student Part 5: Recognizing the Imagining Student Part 6: Helping Turn Imagination Into Reality In our previous 6 installments, we have taken
Part 6 in an 8 part series: Part 1: Identifying the Hibernating Student Part 2: Waking Up the Hibernating Student Part 3: Identifying the Perspiring Student Part 4: Cooling Off the Perspiring Student Part 5: Recognizing the Imagining Student In our last installment, we addressed the
Part 5 in an 8-part series. Read Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, and Part 4. Do some of your student talk a big game about their futures but seem to either fail to follow through or avoid seeing that dreams do not come to a reality without
Part 4 in an 8 part series. Read Part 1, Part 2, and Part 3. In our last installment (Identifying the Perspiring Student), we examined Dr. Russ Quaglia and Dr. Michael Corso’s quadrant of their Student Aspirations FrameworkTM where students were demonstrating high effort or hard
Part 3 in an 8 part series. Read Part 1: Identifying the Hibernating Student and Part 2: Waking Up the Hibernating Student Are your students overly (and at times unnecessarily) perspiring? Are they working hard but aimlessly? Are they trying to cram knowledge into the frontal
Contributed by Dave Nagel Part 2 of an 8 part series In my blog post Identifying the Hibernating Student, we talked about how to identify the students who have neither a dream or goal to work towards, nor are they putting any actions or efforts into their
In this podcast episode, Corwin Executive Editor Arnis Burvikovs interviews author Russ Quaglia on his book and consulting program, Student Voice. Students have plenty of opinions when it comes to school, and they’re not all about free ice cream in the cafeteria. When you take time