What We Can Learn from Gen-Y – Relationships Matter
Since this is the month to focus on thankfulness (even though this should be a year long focus), I’ve decided to post on characteristics and attributes that make GenY great and […]
Student Motivation – Anyone? Anyone? Anyone?
One of the primary reasons students are not motivated in the classroom is because their teachers are not motivated about teaching. Students, in many ways, mirror the standards, expectations, culture, […]
Student Motivation -Student Choice
I polled a class today about barriers to student motivation, and after they finished laughing at me about blogging on this topic, students were at no loss to tell me […]
Student Motivation and Expectation
Everyone knows the theory but applying it can be challenging: students will work to the level of teacher expectation. I totally believe that many students are not succeeding in the […]
Student Motivation – Big Picture Thinking
What is the number one complaint I hear as a teacher? I wish I knew how to motivate my child. I hear this over and over and can share in […]
Raising Good Students – But You Don’t Know My Child’s Teacher
For the final post in Raising Good Students, I wanted to address the all-too-common problem of student/teacher conflict. The reality is sometimes students have personality conflicts with teachers. The reality […]
Raising Good Students – The Entitled Generation
Generation Y has been called by the New York Times the “entitled generation.” This is no surprise to the classroom teacher. Almost everyday during “teacher lunch” (25 minutes of choking […]
