Engaging Students

Connecting Students’ Prior Knowledge, Life Experience, and Interests with Learning Goals

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“What do students want (and what really motivates them)?” by Richard Strong, Harvey F. Silver and Amy Robinson (Educational Leadership; September 1995)  highlights ways to motivate learners through four goals: success, curiosity, originality, and satisfying relationships.
 
“Revisiting Life Experiences and Learning Goals”
ELA teacher Ashley Carlisle explains her use of literature as a vehicle to engage student interest.

Teacher Secrets: How to Deliver Instruction that Sizzles Oblivious to the fact that his students are bored out of their minds, from time to time, this teacher reflects on how to engage a classroom full of blank-faced teenagers.


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