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What I Have Learned: 8 Ways to Increase Student Motivation Through Goal Setting

For Teachers K - 1st
As educators, we realize the value of goal setting and are constantly encouraging our students to dream big and set goals. What we often forget is that unless we help them find their motivation, set up a plan, and identify supports they...
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Ad lit.org: Student Motivation and Engagement in Literacy Learning

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Teachers can help students build confidence in their ability to comprehend content-area texts, by providing a supportive environment and offering information on how reading strategies can be modified to fit various tasks. Teachers should...
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The Newberry Library

Newberry: The Crusades: Motivations, Administration, and Cultural Influence

For Students 9th - 10th
Newberry Library learning module uses primary resources from which students examine Western Christian religious beliefs, political relationships, and personal values during the Middle Ages and how the goals and actions of the Crusades...
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Ad lit.org: What Are the Key Elements of Student Engagement?

For Teachers 6th - 8th
As part of their series to help schools understand the federal No Child Left Behind Law, Learning Point Associates describes the four key elements of student engagement - student confidence, teacher involvement, relevant texts, and...
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Scholastic: Challenge Your Top Students

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
Here are 10 ways to meet the needs of your advanced learners and help the rest of your class too! You decide which strategies are the best match for your students' needs and your teaching style.
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Daily Teaching Tools

Daily Teaching Tools: Great Ideas for Motivating Students

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
Strategies and downloadable content to use while motivating students in your classroom. Includes topics such as: Establishing a Framework for Achieving Success, Establishing Class Identity, Work as a Team to Achieve a Common Goal, Make...
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Daily Teaching Tools: Great Ideas for Motivating Students

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
Strategies and downloadable content to use while motivating students in your classroom. Includes topics such as: Establishing a Framework for Achieving Success, Establishing Class Identity, Work as a Team to Achieve a Common Goal, Make...
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Daily Teaching Tools

Daily Teaching Tools: Great Ideas for Motivating Students

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
Strategies and downloadable content to use while motivating students in your classroom. Includes topics such as: Establishing a Framework for Achieving Success, Establishing Class Identity, Work as a Team to Achieve a Common Goal, Make...
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Daily Teaching Tools

Daily Teaching Tools: Great Ideas for Motivating Students

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
Strategies and downloadable content to use while motivating students in your classroom. Includes topics such as: Establishing a Framework for Achieving Success, Establishing Class Identity, Work as a Team to Achieve a Common Goal, Make...
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Lorea Martinez: 3 Steps to Increase Students' Self Awareness

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
Students (and adults) who can identify their strengths will be more likely to build on them to improve their areas of growth; they will probably have greater motivation and will be more self-confident. Here are 3 suggested steps to talk...
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Teach Hub: Teaching Strategies to Keep Students Engaged in Learning

For Teachers 1st - 8th
Through different teaching strategies like project-based learning and the flipped classroom, new techniques have changed the way teachers teach and learners learn. Here are a few more teaching strategies that are guaranteed to keep your...
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Daily Teaching Tools

Daily Teaching Tools: Student Behavior Contract

For Teachers 6th - 8th
This Daily Teaching Tools resource provides a behavior management tool. A contract is provided as a motivational tool to keep students reflective and accountable for their actions.
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Cnn: Student News: An Education in Organization

For Students 9th - 10th
Advice for setting up "systems" at home that help your child get organized and stay motivated to keep organized.
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Ad lit.org: School Profile: j.e.b. Stuart High School

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Learn how teachers at this once low-performing school dramatically improved academic performance by focusing on student attendance and literacy.
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California State University

California State University: Curiosity and Exploration

For Students 9th - 10th
California State University student research into the psychological theories of curiosity and what motivates people to do what they do.
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Reading Rockets

Reading Rockets: Building World Knowledge: Informational Text

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
Before, during, and after-reading ideas for introducing students to informational texts in the early-elementary grades in order to boost reading achievement through the upper-elementary grades.
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TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Space Travel

For Teachers 7th - 9th
Young scholars are introduced to the historical motivation for space exploration. They learn about the International Space Station as an example of space travel innovation and are introduced to new and futuristic ideas that space...
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American Chemical Society

Middle School Chemistry: Chemical Reactions & Engineering Design

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This lesson begins with a story about rescuing reptile eggs from a new construction site. Using the story as motivation, students are presented with an engineering design challenge: Build a portable device which can warm, support, and...
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Education.com

Education.com: Problem Solved

For Teachers K - 1st
[Free Registration/Login Required] Problem-solving skills can be practiced and strengthened over time with puzzles such as Tangrams! In the social-emotional learning activity Problem Solved, your child will explore problem-solving...
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Ad lit.org: For Teens, Phonics Isn't Enough

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Schools often struggle to find appropriate materials and approaches to support adolescent literacy. Strategies that work for children can ignore teens' existing skills, knowledge, and life experience, and exclude them from the critical...
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Rock and Roll Hall of Fame

Rock & Roll Hall of Fame: Sti Lesson 10: Interpretation and Meaning

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
Using the lyrics, music and video of a selected song (example used here is 'One' by the Irish group U2), students will explore the ways in which words, music and visual images interact to create meaning. Students will analyze the...
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Rock and Roll Hall of Fame

Rock & Roll Hall of Fame: Sti Lesson 42: The Bill of Rights Is a Rockin

For Teachers 10th - 12th
Students are aware of most their personal rights and freedoms. However, many have not critically evaluated the significance of the Bill of Rights and are unaware that the Bill of Rights only applied to the federal government from 1791...
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Better Lesson

Better Lesson: Publishing Time

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
In this lesson, students will experience different types of publishing in order to strengthen their motivation and cultivate pride in their work. After utilizing the writing process, students will type out their writing on a computer....
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Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: Traffic Jams in the Circulatory System!

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Young scholars will discover how atherosclerosis can cause plaque build up in the inner walls of arteries leading to hardening of the arteries which leads to cardiac disease. Students will research atherosclerosis using the Internet and...

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