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No motivation? Strategies that will help
Strategies to Improve Motivation
Many students with disabilities lack motivation. The lacking motivation often stems from a low self-esteem or confidence level. As teachers and parents there's a lot that can be done to improve the motivational level. More from your Guide below
One needs to remember, these students are often fragile mentally and require a great deal of confidence boosting before the following techniques will work. The goal is often to help develop a 'can do' attitude, one that sets the child up for success.
Try the following strategies:
Always build on prior knowledge, this means you really need to understand exactly where your student is academically.
Be sure to praise and recognize ALL efforts and attempts at improving. Give lots of verbal and non-verbal reinforcements.
Provide opportunities for peer mentoring, buddy up, social skill development and cooperative learning whenever the situation presents itself.
Use graphic organizers to assist the student.
Give immediate feedback for on task, task completion, solid efforts and demonstrated improvement at every opportunity.
Encourage independence at every opportunity and provide positive feedback when the student is working well independently.
ALWAYS focus on the student's abilities NOT disabilities.
Provide opportunties for the child to take risks in new learning situations
Give the child opportunity to provide feedback, let him/her tell you why he/she thinks you're happy with them.
Always provide opportunities throughout the day for the student to experience success.
When the opportunity presents itself, be sure to send home 'happy notes'.
Remember, consistency in approach will help to change undesirable behaviors (lacking motivation), your time and patience will pay off and slowly but surely your efforts will be rewarded! Remain positive!
Peace
Many students with disabilities lack motivation. The lacking motivation often stems from a low self-esteem or confidence level. As teachers and parents there's a lot that can be done to improve the motivational level. More from your Guide below
One needs to remember, these students are often fragile mentally and require a great deal of confidence boosting before the following techniques will work. The goal is often to help develop a 'can do' attitude, one that sets the child up for success.
Try the following strategies:
Always build on prior knowledge, this means you really need to understand exactly where your student is academically.
Be sure to praise and recognize ALL efforts and attempts at improving. Give lots of verbal and non-verbal reinforcements.
Provide opportunities for peer mentoring, buddy up, social skill development and cooperative learning whenever the situation presents itself.
Use graphic organizers to assist the student.
Give immediate feedback for on task, task completion, solid efforts and demonstrated improvement at every opportunity.
Encourage independence at every opportunity and provide positive feedback when the student is working well independently.
ALWAYS focus on the student's abilities NOT disabilities.
Provide opportunties for the child to take risks in new learning situations
Give the child opportunity to provide feedback, let him/her tell you why he/she thinks you're happy with them.
Always provide opportunities throughout the day for the student to experience success.
When the opportunity presents itself, be sure to send home 'happy notes'.
Remember, consistency in approach will help to change undesirable behaviors (lacking motivation), your time and patience will pay off and slowly but surely your efforts will be rewarded! Remain positive!
Peace
Comments on this journal
sometimes we have to show the person how its done instead of giving them extra classes on the a particular subject, extra classes are just like spoonfeeding,spoonfeeding is just like making them dependent
helping the person to organize helps much
Plus showing them how to study and seek info
like breaking up thesis statements or paragraphs into charts
That increase the productivity of the teacher as well as student
Oh yeah one thing should be noticed that always make the student look at the writing of any kind in a grammatical way, like looking for thesis statement or the Topic senstence, Examples and Support,
so that they know what they are looking for
Extra classes should be done in manner to give student a thinking pattern which he or she lacks, to think for themselves, to make assumtions even if they are wrong, just for the sake of developing a thinking pattern,to develop the ability to ponder, to teach them we all make mistakes so they shouldnt be afraid to think or use their own mind,
Sometimes i think there should be a separate class for this, to organize, and to ponder, oh yeah making students make their own file of test papers so they can learn from their mistakes and know where they fall short and also show them the pattern on how to make notes more effieciently
its like talking to yourself through Your Own Writing