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Read Works

Read Works: You Can Do It

For Teachers 5th
[Free Registration/Login Required] An informational text about setting and achieving goals for physical fitness. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
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Jensen Learning: Secrets to Ramping Up Student Effort: 10 Step Checklist

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
Over the years, student effort has been called many things. Some call it "motivation" and others call it "work ethic." But no matter what you call it, students will never rise to their full potential without a strong effort. Here is what...
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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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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...
Professional Doc
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...
Professional Doc
Daily Teaching Tools

Daily Teaching Tools: Strategies Increase Participation, Interest, Motivation

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...
Professional Doc
Daily Teaching Tools

Daily Teaching Tools: Strategies Increase Participation, Interest, Motivation

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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Scholastic

Scholastic: Timeless Picture Books

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
Can you motivate your young students to read more? Scholastic.com offers a list of timeless picture books to help you accomplish your goal. Along with the title there is a brief description of each book.
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E Learning Developers' Journal: What Is Personalized Learning [Pdf]

For Students 9th - 10th
This article takes on the complex issues of designing personalized learning strategies for web learning instruction and environments. What do students do when teachers are not there to provide motivation, direction, goal setting and...
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TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Metamorphosis Stories of Change

For Teachers 3rd - 8th Standards
The goal of this activity is for students to learn how to tell a story in order to make a complex topic (such as global warming or ozone holes) easier for a reader to grasp. Students realize that the narrative impulse underlies even...
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Responsive Learning: Challenge Is a Part of Learning

For Teachers K - 1st
This article describes three keys to fostering challenging learning experiences in your classroom.