Student Motivation Archives - Page 17 of 17

Necessary Noise: The Importance of Collaborative Learning

By: Lesley Roessing

An old-fashioned radio broadcast encourages deeper reading. Connections between students, connections between texts and students, and connections between texts and the real world are vital to student learning. In classrooms, one way to make connections is by linking people, ideas, behaviors, and activities through projects. My first experience teaching in a classroom was when I

Ignite the Reading Spark in Young Adolescents

By: Leta Simpson

Speed date a book? Let students give it a try! Although it’s been said that all learning should come from the teacher, sometimes it’s the students who do the teaching. In my second year of teaching, Chad, an eighth grade student, taught me my first lesson. Under a district mandatory reading program, all students, regardless