Activities to motivate students

[ayeshshiddika11]

It is true that sometimes it is necessary to give a master class, but students have to be able to interrupt, ask questions when they need to, give their opinion, and so the class is enjoyable and a place of knowledge, not discipline or submission. Sometimes you have to know when to stop, pay attention to the needs of the students and then continue where you left off once you have overcome the obstacle that was preventing you from moving forward.

Another option that I find interesting and motivating is the development of cross-curricular activities , that is, activities that involve several subjects and in which the students' role and collaborative work according to each one's abilities are highlighted. Of course, for this to happen, teachers have to be as committed or more than the students because this requires a lot of prior work in programming, designing the activity, programming, etc. How can we motivate our students if we are unmotivated? Children are experts at detecting our passion for what we teach, but also if there is apathy or lack of interest.

Finally, I invite you to use ICTs and new resources. We are always on this subject and at the risk of seeming boring, we do not use them to their full potential. There is a teacher at my school who tells his students "Open the tablet to page 200, so-and-so is reading." That is not true. Once, years ago, I had a student in 1st ESO who never came sweden phone data to class but I found out that he really liked computers, so I made him my assistant with the projector and that made him always come to my class to help me. Another possibility, less elaborate but also very profitable, is to show them a film and organize a film forum in the classroom where the film is discussed and, for example, historical errors are found to encourage critical thinking.

In short, there are many things we can do in the classroom to motivate our students, but the main thing and the source of all the others is to motivate ourselves . That is the key to success.