During the summer, I am sharing thematic posts bringing together responses on similar topics from the past 11 years. You can see all those collections from the first 10 years here.
Today鈥檚 theme is Student Motivation and Social-Emotional Learning.
You can see the list following this excerpt from one of the posts:
1. Want Students to 鈥楤uild a Better World?鈥 Try Culturally Responsive Social-Emotional Learning
The practice includes expanding students鈥 networks and developing their awareness of what it feels, looks, and sounds like to manage emotions. Read more.
2. Culturally Responsive Social-Emotional Learning: How to Get There
Bringing culturally responsive SEL into class can鈥檛 be done as an add-on. It needs to be integrated into daily routines and academic work. Read more.
3. Nine Strategies for Promoting Student Engagement
Five educators discuss how to maximize engagement, including the importance of understanding student motivation in and out of the classroom. Read more.
4. Increasing Engagement With Student Choice
Four educators discuss ways to increase student engagement, including providing choice and building a sense of classroom community. Read more.
5. Student 鈥楥ompliance Does Not Equal Engagement鈥
Four educators share suggestions on how schools can maintain student engagement, especially during the teenage years. Read more.
6. 17 Approaches for Encouraging Students to Revise Their Writing
Five educators offer instructional strategies to use when teaching writing revision, including the power of an authentic audience. Read more.
7. Ways to Help Ignite Students鈥 Intrinsic Desire for Writing Revision
Five educators make suggestions that might help students want to revise their writing, including by using 鈥渆diting stations.鈥 Read more.
8. 鈥業 No Longer Give Grades on Student Writing Assignments, and It鈥檚 the Best Thing Ever!鈥
Five educators share how they have helped students motivate themselves to revise their writing. Read more.
9. Making Revision of Writing a 鈥楥ollaborative Process鈥
Six educators discuss strategies they鈥檝e used to encourage students to revise their writing, such as demonstrating their own practice. Read more.
10. 12 Strategies for Encouraging Students to Want to Revise Their Writing
Four educators share suggestions for creating the classroom conditions in which students want to make revisions to their writing. Read more.
More videos on student motivation:
More Q&A posts about student motivation and social-emotional learning:
- Give Students Choice When It鈥檚 Time to Read
- Encourage Students 鈥榯o See Reading as a Relational Experience鈥
- 22 Strategies for Encouraging Students鈥 Intrinsic Motivation to Read
- 鈥楢llow Time for Children to Read Whatever They Want鈥
- Make Learning Relevant by 鈥楪etting to Know Your Students鈥
- Teachers Can Make Lessons Relevant by Listening
- Responses to 鈥榃hy Do I Have to Learn This?鈥
- 鈥The Problem With Kindness': SEL & the Death of George Floyd
- Adding Relevance to Instruction
- Ways to Make Lessons 鈥楻elevant鈥 to Students鈥 Lives
- Videos: Student-Motivation Tips for Remote Learning
- Encouraging Student Engagement in Remote Learning
- Ways to Handle Student Absences in Remote Teaching & When We鈥檙e Back in School
- Responding to Absenteeism During the Coronavirus Pandemic & Beyond
- Four Ways to Help Students Feel Intrinsically Motivated to Do Distance Learning
- Five Ways to Boost Student Participation in Remote Learning
- Overcoming Apathy in Remote Teaching
- We Need to Help 鈥楽tudents Recognize the Brilliance They Already Have鈥
- Look at 鈥榃hat鈥檚 Strong, Not What鈥檚 Wrong鈥 With Our Students
- Focusing on What Our Students Are Doing Instead of What They鈥檙e Not ...
- The Importance of Focusing on Students鈥 Assets
- We Must 鈥楽ee Our Students as Asset-Filled Beings鈥
- Everything You Wanted to Know About Student Motivation But Were Afraid to Ask
- 鈥楤uilding Student Engagement Begins With Community & Relationships鈥
- 鈥楽tudent Engagement Means Connectedness鈥
- Ways to Promote Student Engagement
- Everything You Wanted to Know About Student Agency But Were Afraid to Ask ...
- 鈥楢gency鈥 Lets Students 鈥楾ake an Active Role in Shaping Their Future鈥
- Ways to Support Student Agency
- 鈥Student Agency Is Ownership鈥
- Teach Students That 鈥楩ailure Is a Step Toward Success鈥
- Supporting Students鈥 Capacity to 鈥楤ounce Back鈥
- Ways to Promote Resilience in the Classroom
- A 鈥楾rauma-Informed Classroom Is a Safe and Secure Place鈥
- Strategies for 鈥楾rauma-Informed Teaching鈥
- Ways Schools Can Respond to Bullying
- Going After 鈥榯he Roots鈥 of Bullying
- Using Social-Emotional Learning to Challenge 鈥楽ystems of Oppression鈥
- Equity & Social-Emotional Learning
- Creating Classrooms 鈥榯o Unlock the Learning Potential Mistakes Provide Us鈥
- Mistakes Are 鈥楲earning in Action鈥
- 鈥楩reedom to Fail鈥 Creates a Positive Learning Environment
- Recognize Students When They Learn From Mistakes
- 鈥楢 Mistake Is a Door to Discovery鈥
- Ways Educators Can Respond to Student Trauma
- Students Exposed to Trauma Are 鈥楩ull of Promise鈥
- Schools Can鈥檛 鈥榃ish Away鈥 Challenges of Student Trauma
- Student Goal-Setting in the Classroom
- Provide 鈥榁oice鈥 and 鈥楥hoice鈥 When Students Set Goals
- 鈥楢 Goal Without a Plan Is Just a Wish鈥
- Students 鈥楾ake Ownership of Their Learning鈥 Through Goal-Setting
- Metacognition Is a 鈥楥atalyst for Action鈥
- Metacognitive Skills Put Students on 鈥楻oad to Lifelong Learning鈥
- Student Metacognition 鈥楴eeds to Be Purposely Developed鈥
- Metacognition Helps Students 鈥楿nderstand Their Gaps & How to Close Them鈥
- We Need to 鈥楴urture Creativity for All Students鈥
- We Must Help Students 鈥楻ecognize Their Creative Strengths鈥
- We Need to 鈥業nitiate Wonder in the Classroom鈥
- 鈥楲earning Self-Regulation鈥 Is Needed on Path to Academic Success
- 鈥楽elf-Control Doesn鈥檛 Just Happen, It Needs to Be Taught鈥
- 鈥楽tudent Autonomy Is a Prerequisite of Self-Control鈥
- 鈥楽elf-Control Can Be Learned鈥
- 鈥楬elping Children Succeed': An Interview With Paul Tough
- Applying a Growth Mindset in the Classroom
- 鈥楪rowth Mindset Starts With Us, Not With Them鈥
- Student 鈥楻eflection Needs to Be a Habit鈥
- Students Must 鈥楻eflect on What They Are Learning鈥
- 鈥業t鈥檚 Time to Change the Conversation About Grit鈥
- Students Develop Grit by 鈥楾aking Charge of Their Own Learning鈥
- To Teach Grit or Not to Teach Grit: That Is the Question
- Ways to Build 鈥楢uthentic Engagement鈥 & Not 鈥楽trategic Compliance鈥
- Strategies for Encouraging Student Engagement
- 鈥楥are Is the Catalyst for Learning鈥
- 鈥楾here鈥檚 Nothing More Innovative Than Care鈥
- Supporting Student Engagement by 鈥楤uilding Community鈥
- Student Engagement Is 鈥榯he Act of Being Invested in Learning鈥
- Student Engagement 鈥業nvolves Joyous Effort鈥
- The Best Ways to Engage Students in Learning
- Ways to Cultivate Whole-Class Engagement
- There Is No Such Thing as an Unmotivated Student鈥
- 鈥楪ood News & Bad News鈥 About Student Motivation
- 鈥楲isten, Empathize, Connect鈥 for Student Motivation
- 鈥楥haracter Should Be an Integrated Element of Education鈥
- 鈥楾eaching Character Is Not a Program or Curriculum鈥
- 鈥楥haracter Is Not Compliance Out of Fear鈥
- 鈥楾eachers Need to Behave Like Johnny Appleseeds': An Interview With Daniel Coyle
- 鈥楥reating a Culture Where Students Want to Succeed鈥
- Ways to Develop a Culture of Success in Schools
- 鈥楩low鈥 in the Classroom
- Student Engagement 鈥楻equires a Conversation鈥
- Teachers as 鈥楶ersuaders': An Interview With Daniel Pink
- Classroom Strategies to Foster a Growth Mindset
- Applying Research Findings to the Classroom
- An Interview With Paul Tough on Character & Schools
- Teaching 鈥楥haracter鈥 in Schools鈥擯art Two
- Several Ways to Connect With Disengaged Students
- Several Ways to Engage Students Without Carrots & Sticks
- Several Ways to 鈥楳otivate鈥 the Unmotivated to Learn
- Part Two of Several Ways We Can Help Students Develop Good Habits
- Several Ways to Help Students Develop Self-Control
- Several Ways We Can Help Students Develop Good Habits
- Several Ways to Apply Social-Emotional-Learning Strategies in the Classroom
Explore other thematic posts:
- It Was Another Busy School Year. What Resonated for You?
- How to Best Address Race and Racism in the Classroom
- Schools Just Let Out, But What Are the Best Ways to Begin the Coming Year?
- Classroom Management Starts With Student Engagement
- The School Year Has Ended. What Are Some Lessons to Close Out Next Year?
- Teacher Takeaways From the Pandemic: What Worked? What Didn鈥檛?
