The #1 Intervention That Students Can’t Resist–

My personal reading this week was a great way to keep your students motivted or at least captivated by your class. Its a great way to deal with a whole host of situtation such as; substitutes, unmotivated students, or students whole just dont like the subject you are teaching. I found this idea to be a great concept because i had never thought about the importance or usefulness of this in the classroom. By now, if you are reading this you are most likely curious as to what the concept could be, and are anxiuosly awaiting what it is.

…. Its curiosity in the classroom. However you can incorporate it will be a benefit to you and your students. Some ideas that this article posed were

1. substitute teachers

    the idea was to place envelopes on each desk and instruct the teacher to not let anyone open the envelopes unless they stayed on task all hour. Inside the envelope could be a whole host of prizes such as; candy, extra credit point, a great out of homework free card. The excitement is in not knowing what is in the envelope, the idea is to spark curiousity to keep the students on task.

2. Everyday stuff

  They suggest posting stay tuned notes outside the doors to encourage students to come and find out what all the fuss is about. Or using the in the lesson such as Get on A on the next quiz found out how in 3rd period. They could also be silly the example they used in the article was “find out what joke Mr. miller told in science today.

This litte extra can really go along way in the first step to motivation…. getting their foot in the door and their heads out of the clouds