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Over 25 Free Teaching Activities!

Saturday 27 November 2010 @ 4:21 pm

As you know I am a big fan of Rob Plevin’s Needs Focused Lessons!

By using the strategies presented by Rob you can completely change even your most challenging students.

Why?

Simple…the teaching strategies are based on the “needs” of the students. I can go on and on explaining the rationale behind this, but why not just check it out for yourself…

Here are over 25 free teaching activities taken from Rob Plevin’s Needs Focused Lessons that you can start using with your students tomorrow!

No tricks, no gimmicks…nothing to pay and nothing to sign up for…

Simply click the link below to read and/or download this great resource:
http://www.TeachingTipsMachine.com/NeedsFocusedSamples.pdf


Needs Focused lessons


Best Wishes,
Adam Waxler
Teaching Tips Machine, LLC

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The Latest Teacher Resource is Now LIVE!

Thursday 14 October 2010 @ 9:21 pm

Just a reminder…

The latest teacher resource – MOTIVATE Your Disinterested Students – is now LIVE!

You can still get it at the introductory price, but I’m not sure for how long…

If you’re really interested in learning how to motivate your worst students then go here now:
http://www.1shoppingcart.com/app/?Clk=3944063


Motivation



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A Simple Teaching Tip to Motivate Your Students

Sunday 10 October 2010 @ 2:18 pm

Here is a great strategy taken from the new course…MOTIVATE Your Disinterested Students! After you read through the strategy below you can find out more information about this new course (as well as a very special introductory offer) by visiting the following page: http://www.1shoppingcart.com/app/?Clk=3944063

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Did you know that fear of failure and embarrassment could be one of the main reasons why some of your students aren’t taking part in lessons? Some students are scared to take part because they don’t want to look foolish if they get an answer wrong in front of their peers.

Here is a quick and easy method to address a student’s lack of knowledge and encourage them to participate…

1. Ask the student a question at the start of the lesson related to the lesson content. (They will probably refuse to answer but that’s ok. It may be because they’re afraid of making a fool of themselves).

2. Take the pressure off them by offering them to nominate a friend who can help them answer the question or even answer it on their behalf. (This is much easy for them to do than answering the question – but the key is that they will still see themselves as being INVOLVED in the answering process).

3. Ask the student to paraphrase what their friend said so that they fully answer the question themselves.

4. Later in the lesson when other students are involved in independent study ask the student to answer the question for you again on a 1:1 basis.

Encourage them to break the answer down into clear steps so that they are totally sure of the process. Offer a little extra ‘in-depth’ information to add to their answer and ask them once more to show off their new knowledge and tell you ‘all they know’ about the subject. Congratulate them and tell them you will be asking them at the end of the lesson to repeat their answer to help the other students remember. (The extra ‘in-depth’ knowledge you’ve given them will give them the opportunity to shine if they wish).

5. At the end of the lesson let them leave on a high by answering the question in front of everyone as part of your plenary session.

6. At the start of NEXT LESSON ask them to answer the question as part of your starter.

Remember that you don’t need to limit this strategy to just one student during a lesson. You can feasibly have four or five students all leaving class feeling that they’ve actually learned something.

Giving your fearful, failing students a taste of success like this lets them to see the value in learning and enjoy a sense of achievement – essential factors for internal motivation.

** Remember, this strategy has been taken from the brand new course…MOTIVATE Your Disinterested Students. You can read all about it (as well as a very special introductory offer) by visiting the following page:

http://www.1shoppingcart.com/app/?Clk=3944063

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The Student-Motivation Countdown has begun!

Friday 8 October 2010 @ 9:49 pm

As a fellow teacher I need to let you know that in just a few
days, teachers all over the world will be flooding to the
Behaviour Needs website to take advantage of the new “MOTIVATE
your disinterested students” system.

Those who get in early will have the advantage of securing the
program at the lowest possible price and will be able to use the
system immediately to deal effectively with:

· Students who REFUSE to work

· Students who DISRUPT other class members

· Attention-seeking behavior

· Students who never get their work finished

· The “I don’t care” attitude

· Students who show NO INTEREST in learning

The pre-launch offer sold out in 24 hours. However, you can still
get a significant discount if you register for the “Early Bird” offer.

When the Early Bird offer launches on October 12th just 300
spots will be made available at the discount price.
These 300 places will sell fast – probably within 24 hours. The
offer will then be closed and the price will go up.

This is it: Your opportunity to take advantage of a
never-to-be-repeated discount offer.

All you have to do to reserve your spot is follow the link below
and enter your details. Then, on October 12th, you will be
provided with a private link to buy the course at a discount
price and start motivating your disinterested students.

So, if you want to motivate your students then go here now:
http://www.1shoppingcart.com/app/?Clk=3944063

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Adam Waxler
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Get students to LOOK FORWARD to your class!

Wednesday 30 June 2010 @ 3:05 pm

Hi…

I hope you enjoyed the article I posted a couple of weeks ago by Rob Plevin…

In the article, Rob discusses the importance of getting students to LOOK FORWARD to your lessons. Rob believes (and I’m sure we all agree) that when students come into your classroom with a positive attitude they are much easier to manage and teach.

Well…here are some specific ideas from Rob Plevin for getting students to LOOK FORWARD to your lessons:

* Cooperative learning activities – get students working together so that their needs for attention and support are naturally met – you then become free to give assistance when it is required rather than when it is demanded.

* Attention grabbing starters – Get them interested from the start and the rest of the lesson has a fair chance of success. If you don’t manage to do this, you’re fighting a losing battle for the entire lesson.

* Learning games – when learning is fun, it is more enjoyable and memorable.

* Relevant subject content – relevant to THEIR lives

* Ability-appropriate tasks – too hard and they’ll be frustrated, too easy and they’ll be bored

* Music – great for setting the mood in a lesson but also for marking transitions and ‘types’ of activity. Use upbeat or comedy theme music to hurry students through physical tasks and relaxing music when you want them to think. Use their favorite music as an occasional class reward for good effort.

* Energizers and brain-breaks, and novel activities – Physical energizers can get the group back on task and re-focused.

* Anecdotes and analogies – students respond so well to analogies and quirky stories. It gives them an instant way of connecting to new information.

* Role plays – If you aren’t using role play I suggest you do it NOW. Your most challenging students love role play when it is presented in the right way. This one activity can have your students queuing at the door to get in every lesson. “Sir, can we do role play again please?”

* Humor breaks – It goes without saying, we need humor, we need to laugh. But are you actively planning dedicated humor time into your lessons? If you do, your students will thank you for it and your lessons will be the talk of the school.

If you want more ideas on how to get students to LOOK FORWARD to your lessons then you must check out Rob Plevin’s lesson improvement program known as Needs-Focused Lessons.

I can’t recommend Rob’s Needs-Focused Lessons highly enough and you can still get started for just $1.

Take a look at this extremely valuable resource right now at:

Needs Focused lessons


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