Student Motivation Tips (SMT): Tactics Geared to Foster Student Motivation
- Utilizing additional significant words to motivate students;
- Using props to inspire student learning;
- Sharing personal experiences to inspire students;
- Incorporating questions to motivate students;
- Engaging students to participate is a very successful approach for two-way communication, sentence-building blocks, singing competitions, singing connections, etc.
- Sample Pattern 1:
- Nose, nose, nose, where is your nose?
- Nose, nose, nose, my nose is right here.
- The student has learned this, so ask the student, "what real life vocabulary would you like to put in?":
- Student A - "House"
- Student B - "Money"
- Ask the student to replace “nose” with “house/money.”
Thus, the sentence becomes meaningful to the student. The student wants it, needs it, and gets it.
That student can then apply his or her sentence to a real-life situation.
- Sample Pattern 2:
- I want, I want, I want to go to the park.
- The student has learned this vocabulary and structure, so ask the students what real life vocabulary they would like to insert:
- Student A - "Hotel"
- Student B - "Field Trip"
- The teacher follows the same procedure using SMT for two-way communication.
It is exactly what the student wants to learn;
the sentence is the most meaningful and realistic for the new student's life and needs.
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