Tips for Teachers
Autonomy Rules
Prepare students to take control of their learning. Students will spend countless hours working on things that they are passionate about. Allow students to be part of the process in determining what you choose to study and how you learn or practice the material. Create an opportunity for students to share and teach things to others that they are passionate about.
Find a meaningful audience for students to perform/showcase work
When students feel that their performance is meaningful and will have an impact on others they will make time to produce beautiful work. Find ways to display and exhibit student work to the community outside of school. Make connections with audiences from neighboring schools and community centers.
Be part of the Community
Take time to really hear what students want. Respect student’s effort towards goals as you would adults. Be active and engaged with students. Instead of overseeing and managing their experience, become a meaningful part of it.
Fall in love with Learning
I feel that one of the biggest changes in my philosophy and growth as an educator came from reading the following books and turning the concepts into experiences within my classroom. I spent almost twice as much time thinking, discussing, and experimenting with the concepts in these books as I did reading them. If you want to understand how to motivate students to work hard in any subject, start by reading the following books and experiment with the concepts within the classroom.
Fires In The Mind by Kathleen Cushman
Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us by Daniel Pink
The Inner Game of Music byBarry Green with Timothy Gallwey
See appendix for detailed synopsis of each book.
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Prepare students to take control of their learning. Students will spend countless hours working on things that they are passionate about. Allow students to be part of the process in determining what you choose to study and how you learn or practice the material. Create an opportunity for students to share and teach things to others that they are passionate about.
Find a meaningful audience for students to perform/showcase work
When students feel that their performance is meaningful and will have an impact on others they will make time to produce beautiful work. Find ways to display and exhibit student work to the community outside of school. Make connections with audiences from neighboring schools and community centers.
Be part of the Community
Take time to really hear what students want. Respect student’s effort towards goals as you would adults. Be active and engaged with students. Instead of overseeing and managing their experience, become a meaningful part of it.
Fall in love with Learning
I feel that one of the biggest changes in my philosophy and growth as an educator came from reading the following books and turning the concepts into experiences within my classroom. I spent almost twice as much time thinking, discussing, and experimenting with the concepts in these books as I did reading them. If you want to understand how to motivate students to work hard in any subject, start by reading the following books and experiment with the concepts within the classroom.
Fires In The Mind by Kathleen Cushman
Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us by Daniel Pink
The Inner Game of Music byBarry Green with Timothy Gallwey
See appendix for detailed synopsis of each book.
BACK TO HOME
