Looking for motivation…??

Looking for motivation…??

Hello everybody

I do not know if you have into account the type of assessment that our teacher is doing. Do you feel that it is useful? Do you feel motivated?

Raquel uses positive reinforcement or reward through prize or public recognition of our extra effort. She usually gives stickers for you individual or group effort, mentions your post in “Wall of fame” and does competition on Hogwarts' Wall, so there are different ways of motivation.

But, what is the positive reinforcement or reward?

Theoretically, teachers often have difficulties to find ways to motivate students. Some of them can lose the interest of the subject or not feel bound by the educational materials. Teachers have to find ways to increase student interest.

Here you can see some activities or resorces that can use  assess through it and motivate your students:

·         Games: it is a great motivation resource. It is very useful to Raquel. She uses in many activities every day. For example, the Frozen frame. The finality is that students can develop their knowledge and content on a fun way.

·         Reward: it is something that teacher gives to students that she considers that they are doing a high work or task. Moreover, rewards are usually stickers or something like than but the important point is publish recognition so this does that they are proud of themselves.

·         Decisions: sometimes it is important to give prominence to the class and they are they who have to decide who should receive a reward. This activity can be done through individual or team votes. As you can see we have had to vote, like authors’ activity and reading map.

·       Working in group: the students have to know work in group so like Raquel does with us instead of assessing students in the traditional way, students can demonstrate their knowledge of course content through competitions.

To conclude, I think that our teacher is a good example because she uses it at the appropriate time. In my opinion, it is important to make our students feel motivated for their learning process could be better. Therefore, our role as teachers is to promote their motivation through activities that capture your attention so in this topic Rachel is expert, she is a great example.

I hope that you consider my post useful in your future as teacher :)

Have a good bridge!!

Andrea