Motivating Students
Motivating students is one of the greatest challenges that instructors face. An approach that works for some students won’t work for others. What works one class may not work in another class, even if it’s another section on the very same day. It is all very mysterious, isn’t it? The resources below provide some clues to help us understand this mystery and some specific suggestions about what you can do to help motivate students in the classroom.
- Motivating
Students
This chapter from Tools for Teaching by Barbara Gross Davis describes ways to structure and teach courses in ways that are motivating for students.
- Encouraging
Students' Intrinsic Motivation
This article by Kathleen McKinney from Illinois State University provides nine strategies designed to increase the development of students’ intrinsic motivation.
- Motivating
Students
Links to a number of good suggestions focused on motivating students. Published online by the Teaching Effectiveness Program at UO.
- Capturing
and Directing the Spirit to Learn
Thoughtful reading and specific suggestions from the Stanford University Newsletter on Teaching, 1998, Vol 10, No. 1. (Downloads as a PDF file.)
- Creating
Enthusiasm
These suggestions from the Center for Teaching and Learning at Indiana State University focus on approaches that encourage mindfulness in students.
- Motivating
the Unmotivated
This short essay by Ronald W. Luce, a Communications Instructor at Hocking Technical College in Nelsonville, Ohio, contains several specific suggestions for how to motivate students.
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