Week twelve: Keeping up the motivation in your classroom

How do you keep students motivated in your classes? I know I've seen some fabulous lessons on DVD and in person from each of you. Please share your favorite ideas and introductions to lessons. See article link for further ideas. See you Wednesday, April 1st at my house, 5 p.m.

http://712educators.about.com/cs/motivation/a/motivation.htm?nl=1

Week eleven: Using peer tutors

Welcome back Lauren and Breanna!! You survived and prospered for another week, Nick and Megan!

This morning in 288, we were discussing how and why one might want to use peer tutors in FACS classes. This week, I'd like to discuss whether this is something you have considered or actually do already. If not, why not? If so,how do you do it and for whom?

WRite on!!

Week ten: Looking ahead

Likely many of you are coming to the end of a quarter. There's some excellent advice here about when and if to offer extra credit. 
http://712educators.about.com/od/gradingsystems/a/extra_credit.htm

Week 9: Becoming an excellent teacher

The task of the excellent teacher is to stimulate "apparently ordinary" people to unusual effort. The tough problem is not in identifying winners: it is in making winners out of ordinary people. ~K. Patricia Cross

I hope that your reading of last week's blog entries were inspiring to you as they were for me!! I used some of your comments in a power point I was doing on motivating the unmotivated and I think it worked pretty well to illustrate the points I was making. Well done!!