Students are born motivated to learn They're motivated to touch, to taste, to crawl, to explore, to put things in their mouth. They're always learning. Then they start school. What happens to their motivation? For some children, motivation starts to dissipate as early as kindergarten. Kindergarten t [...]
Students today will constantly need to learn and relearn skills as their career paths change. 21st century learning must find a way to keep pace.
I recently completed a training session with teachers in Alaska. As I almost always do, I learned a new classroom management strategy from a teacher in my audience – something I hadn’t thought of in the classroom context.
Dear Susan: My child has horrible handwriting / printing. It’s almost illegible. What can I do?
I’ve always believed that there’s more than one way to motivate students. The key is to make them feel that they have control over their destiny.