Keeping Motivation High

It is vital for American Educators to be able to keep student motivation high in their classrooms, but enivitably there will always be students that are less than interested in your course, or in school in general. How do we as teachers get these students to respond to our teaching? How do we show them that education has facets in all of our lives regardless of what career path we take?

This is the question that we will need to ask ourselves as future educators? How do we make our students WANT to learn, want to value their education?

For me I know that I need to collaborate my lesson plans and units with something that my students can relate you. I know that History is generally thought of to be a "boring" subject and connecting in importance of knowing about the past with the future is vitally important to our development as a nation and as a single American people.

The article posted below gives ideas and case studies for the application of real word projects into interdisciplinary education. Examples like working with service learning, analyzing natural disasters and their effects, and the use of all 4 major subjects to show how interconnected education can be is something I will strive for was a teacher.

http://publications.sreb.org/2010/10V04w_BestPractices_Blending_Instruction.pdf