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21 Simple Ideas To Improve Student Motivation

While guidance from a teacher is important, allowing students to have choice and control is a useful strategy to improve student motivation.

Note that there are no books about education on the list from 1990 – present. Too early to make the call, in my humble opinion.

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One could reasonably cite the complexity of constructivist teaching and learning as a reason to default to more traditional teaching methods.

‘Education is not the filling of a pot but the lighting of a fire.’ –W.B. Yeats

Effective elementary classroom management involves maintaining a balance between promoting convergent and divergent thinking and behavior.

We can’t control everything and apologizing for things out of our control can set unrealistic expectations of teachers.

Formative assessment strategies matter. Like a chef checks a dish for taste, teachers must make frequent, targeted checks for understanding.