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:
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Best Wishes,
Adam Waxler
Teaching Tips Machine, LLC

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An Inspirational Message for Teachers

Tuesday 10 August 2010 @ 6:48 pm

As I am now in full “get-ready-for school” mode, I came across this cute YouTube video that I thought I’d pass along.

Remember…teachers do make a difference!



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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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Will “fun” lessons help with classroom management?

Friday 18 June 2010 @ 4:50 pm

As many of you know I’m a firm believer that there needs to be some degree of fun in every classroom. As my very first professor, Barry Raebeck, once stated, “If it’s not fun a fair part of the time, it’s probably no good and definitely wont last.”

However, the classroom cannot just be all fun and games either…

I’m passing along a short article today which I found very interesting.

Check it out and let me know what you think. I’d be curious to hear if it resonates with you or not…

Best Wishes,
Adam Waxler
Teaching Tips Machine, LLC

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“Why You Can’t Rely on Fun Lessons to Solve Classroom Management Problems”

© Written By Rob Plevin
Author of the new Needs-Focused Lessons

Having a fun classroom and teaching a fun lesson isn’t enough to stop behavior problems, and it isn’t going to miraculously transform your challenging students into hard-working, diligent stars.

Without a good understanding of some other key classroom management skills, a lesson that you think is fun may well turn into a free-for-all and only serve to build you a reputation as a walk-over.

Teaching is not about “entertaining” students or letting them just “mess about,” and it certainly isn’t about demoting them to the role of passive spectators.

The truth is, even the most colorful and funny presentations can become boring (and even annoying) to kids if they are repeatedly expected to merely “be entertained” or just “have a laugh.” If challenging students are to feel truly involved in a lesson, they need to be given opportunities to develop, grow, improve and feel a sense of accomplishment and achievement.

Sure, they can still have fun in the process, but it is more productive if the fun comes from interacting with each other, finding out, working out, building, trying, experimenting, practicing and doing. They don’t get these things from just sitting back and watching or messing around.

I like to use the simple analogy of your pupils each carrying an “emotion backpack” on their backs as they enter your lessons. If they arrive with the feeling that the lesson (based on their previous experience) is something they will have to ENDURE for the next hour – something that is boring, irrelevant to their lives or perhaps embarrassing or difficult – then their backpack will be filled with NEGATIVE emotions before they even set foot through the door.

Teaching kids who walk in your classroom with negative preconceptions is the HARD way to teach. It’s tough to get students to engage when they have already made up their minds that the lesson isn’t something they’re going to enjoy or benefit from.

The easy way is to have them actually LOOKING FORWARD to your lessons. You want them carrying that backpack with a little bit of INTRIGUE, perhaps recollections of a few LAUGHS they had during the last lesson or a feeling of SUCCESS and ACHIEVEMENT having UNDERSTOOD a difficult concept for the first time.

Isn’t that what education is all about?

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I hope you found the article informative. 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 Rob has agreed to let you try his simple but super-effective lesson plan strategies for $1.

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

Needs Focused lessons



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