What Strategies Do You Use To Improve Student Motivation In Your Courses?
Many among our teachers and trainers community wonder, especially the young ones like me, about the strategies we should use to improve student motivation in our courses. In today’s article, we will check some facts that I have learned from some top people in the industry.Strategies to improve student motivation in our courses
Joy Mighty from Carleton University mentions that one of the strategies is being relevant.
Joy Mighty from Carleton University mentions one of the strategies as being relevant. Relevance to lives of the students, relevance to their stage of development, relevance to their interests. The types of examples that you use would be examples that they can relate to, the types of assignments that you give would be not your “tried and trued” essay with the topic that you know they can go on a website and find, but something that engages them to go and ask questions, to inquire about something that appeals to them, something in their community, for example. Something that gives them the importance and the motivation to stick with it no matter how hard it is.
Because at the end of it is some reward for them they want to know this thing.
From the University of Guelph, Dan Gillis tries to make sure that all the assignments given to the students are fun.
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