Motivating Students: Three Tips You Can Try

Do your students suffer from a lack of motivation? In the midst of holiday parties and on the brink of a break, it’s difficult to focus student attention on learning rather than plans of vacation.

Before you reach your breaking point, try these tips to motivate students and keep them interested in their own learning. Because once they can see their progress, students are more likely to want to progress. Take a look at these tried-and-true ideas teachers across the country are using to motivate their students.

Preparing for 2010

We all want to start out the new year right, so don’t let the winter break get in your way. As excited as your students may be for the time off school, they may not be prepared to fill all that time—at least not productively. We’ve prepared a few projects your students can start before they leave and can share when they come back.

For more ideas, check out last year’s activities, each designed to keep those literacy skills sharp.

New Year's Around the World

I hope all of you are enjoying the holiday season as much as we are at Imagine Learning! I can’t believe how quickly the holidays came this year. In only a few weeks we'll be starting off a brand new decade!

New Year’s traditions are so interesting to me. It’s amazing how one holiday can be celebrated in so many different ways. Every family, country, and culture has unique traditions and customs, and it's a lot of fun to learn about the different ways people ring in the new year.

Beyond Three Cups of Tea Part 2: Female Literacy

In a previous post, I discussed one part of a lecture given at Brigham Young University by Greg Mortenson, author of Three Cups of Tea.

During the lecture, Mortenson shared his belief that education is the key to promoting peace and should be our top global priority. He explained,

There are 120 million children in the world today who can’t go to school because of slavery, religious extremism, gender discrimination, corrupt governments. Seventy eight million are female…We can drop bombs, we can build roads, we can put in electricity, we can put in computers, but unless girls are educated, a society will never change.