How to Motivate Students

Understand why it’s hard to inspire students. The problem is that students come in contact with a lot of people who behave like “teachers” in their lives. Everyone is always trying to encourage students, force them to think, learn and make them become people who make the world proud. Because of this overwhelming amount of encouragement and influence, students struggle to find their true identity and become automatically suspicious when anyone tries to influence them.

• Having realized this, students tend to cope with the constant pressure from the environment by adopting an important mechanism, namely: “I will show you how to influence me if you prove that you are worthy of it.” It is this mechanism that ensures only the right people can influence them at the right time, and this is clearly a good way to do that. It only matters when the person who can influence students is not good, or when a good person doesn’t try to influence them.

Make a positive impression. If you want to motivate students, you have to prove that you are a person worth listening to. They may be suspicious of you on the first day, but you can work to improve to earn their trust and respect. To do this, you have to stand out from the crowd. You won’t be able to do this if you’re just like the crowd. You need to stand out, capture the student’s attention, and hold it. Here are some ways that will help you make a good impression on your students:

• Express your opinion clearly. Have your own opinion and express it at an appropriate time. Don’t talk too much and don’t insist on your opinion. You need to give the impression that you are knowledgeable, intelligent, and unafraid to speak your mind, not someone who is arrogant and self-centered.
• Be passionate about what you are teaching. Your wide eyes, big smile and sincere enthusiasm are sure to make a huge impact on students. Even if they are not interested in your subject, it is your behavior that can interest them. Because the most important thing is that because you persistently show your love for something, students will soon realize that you are a sincere person.
• Be a passionate person. Enthusiasm is contagious, and students will have a hard time falling asleep in class if the teacher is enthusiastic and doesn’t stand still. Make sure you have enough energy to make what you’re talking about as well as yourself appealing to students.
• Improve your appearance. You need to make a good impression, so make sure you look good when you walk into class. Try to dress nicer or a little different than the average person.

Do more. Do more than is expected of a typical teacher. In the event that a student is unable to turn in an assignment on time, the next time it persists, call the student after school and review the assignment with him or her. Help the student with the assignment, show him or her how to research, and show him the work of other students. This method is very effective because it eliminates many problems: if the problem lies in the student’s attitude then you can remove the student’s excuses but if the student is really struggling with homework, now you know how to do it.

• Pay attention and answer all questions to make sure students have completely understood your actions. Remember to tell your students that you will no longer be helping them in this way. Ask them if they understood and wait for a definite answer before letting them go.
• Of course, trying harder and letting students take advantage of it are completely different. You should give your students extra help if they need it, but don’t let that mean you have to sacrifice your principles.

Add new information about your problem. If you want students to enjoy your lessons, you need to teach outside of the curriculum. Keep students up to date with the latest advances in that subject. For example, if you are a science teacher, you might 1) Bring an article from Science magazine to students to read in class or 2) Give students a summary of an article with pictures about it. he then asks about the concepts in the article, explains the meaning of certain sentences and then tells the students that you have a copy of the article so that any student who is more interested in it can bring it home later learn. The second option is the better way.

• You need to understand that your job is to create interest, not to provide material for students.

Create exercises that make students creative. Let’s create a unique and interesting overall project. For example, your class might organize a play related to science (or any other subject) to perform at a local children’s museum. The whole class could write a book and publish it at a self-publishing service and then donate the book to a local library.

• The key point of this activity is that the idea must be different, you need to do this activity during class time or during a certain hour at school (to avoid having to travel a lot or waste time) and you need companionship. with the class at each step of the whole activity.

Has a sense of humour. When you have a sense of humour, you will easily engage students, bring learning materials to life, and help students connect with you better. The point is, if you’re always serious, students will find it hard to care and really connect with you. You don’t have to be a clown and joke around all the time, but if you create a fun learning environment for your students, they’ll be more motivated and more interested in learning.

Show your students that you are capable. You need to try to convince students that what you say is valuable, especially when you want to get them interested in your major. You need to show your talent. You are not only a teacher but also a very talented person in your field. Present yourself as if you were attending a job interview. Be humble, but don’t hide your abilities. Make sure your pride is conveyed to students when it comes to your experiences and contributions. If you have talented acquaintances, invite them to class, but don’t ask them to speak, use an interactive interview format.

• If students think that you don’t really master your knowledge, they will be more likely to be lazy when doing assignments or think that you will not notice if they have not read the material carefully.

Pay attention to students who need attention. If a student appears depressed or unwell, call the student to stay after school and ask if he or she is okay. Try not to pay too much attention to the student when doing this. Look students in the eye when asking, but don’t stare to get answers from students. If they say they’re fine, don’t pressure the student unless you think he or she has a serious problem. Just say, “I think you seem a bit sad in class” and get on with your work. Just showing such concern is enough for them.

• If a student is having trouble but feels that he or she is cared for and noticed by you, this will motivate him or her to work harder. If a student thinks you don’t care how hard you work or how you feel, he or she will try less.
• Consider skipping some rules if students are really struggling. This takes care, but it builds trust. If a student repeatedly doesn’t turn in his homework, comes to class, and tells you he has n’t finished his homework, you need to realize that something is wrong with the student (even if the student’s attitude is inherently like that). ) and help. Secretly give the student extra time to complete assignments and make assignments a little easier. Yes, that is “circumvention of the law,” but you are eliminating reasons for it to happen again. However, make it clear to the student that you will not be extending such a deadline.

Ask students to share their ideas. Your students will be less interested if they think you’re just giving a lecture and don’t care what they think. If you ask students what they think about a political issue, a passage, or the merits of a science experiment, they will get excited and express their opinions. If students feel that you care about their opinions, they will be more confident and more interested in sharing your views.

• Remember that encouraging a valid debate is different from letting students share their unsubstantiated opinions. You need to make sure that students always have evidence to support their opinions.
• Of course, if you teach math or a foreign language, there’s less opportunity for students to share their ideas. So you can try sharing with the class some extra information related to the subject. Your 8th graders probably wouldn’t have an opinion on the present tense conjugation in Spanish, but they might be able to express their opinion about the effectiveness of focused learning if you bring it up. Go to class with an article related to that process.

Encourage lively discussions in class. If you are teaching all the time, it will be easy for students to lose focus. If you want students to be interested and ready to learn, you need to facilitate valuable discussions in the classroom. Ask questions directly to each student instead of asking the whole class and remember to call each student by name. The reality is, no student wants to be called when they don’t know the answer, and if they know this can happen, they’ll have an answer ready as they learn. This makes students need to focus more on the lesson.

• This not only makes students more active in reading materials and preparing for class, but also helps students feel excited about coming to class because they feel their opinions are valued.

Get to know the student before giving praise. When you take a new class, if you stand in front of the class and tell your students that you know they are all great people and they will learn to change the world in this class, the students won’t believe it and won’t believe it. respect you. Students’ thinking is how do you know who they are if you haven’t tried to find out? How can you expect them to change the world if you haven’t told them what the world is like? How can you have the same hope for everyone? And you are absolutely right to have such thoughts.

• For most teachers, all students are the same, so they feel free to say so, but for a good teacher every student is different.
• You also need to avoid “Some kids” statements (Some will become lawyers, some will become doctors…”). Save that speech for one of the last class sessions and make it personal, for example: “Ryan will find a cure for cancer, Mark Zuckerberg will compete fiercely. with Bill Gates, Wendy will beautify the world, Carp will probably compete fiercely with Kevin …”.
• Add a bit of humor to make it clear to students that you already know something about each student in the class. These are your expectations to your students, and just as you have proven yourself to them, your students have proven themselves to you as well.

Show students how your subject affects the world. Expose students to previously unknown motivating factors such as issues related to people, communities, countries, the world – whatever is important to you or whatever you want to motivate students. Once you have built trust and students have decided that your lesson is interesting, they will be interested. Students will try to understand the source of your opinions and why you feel so certain. Even if they disagree, they will be willing to try to find out.

• It may be difficult for you to spark interest in your students because they don’t find your English Literature or American History subject to be applicable in their daily lives. Bring a book review or an article to class, and show students how what they’re learning really has an impact on the outside world. If students find the subject practical and can be applied in practice, they will tend to be more interested in that subject.