This independent study course is designed to give teachers the skills needed to motivate those students who seem to lack interest in classroom content.
This course is based off of Rob Plevin’s book, “Motivate the Unmotivated: A Step by Step System You Can Use to Raise Motivation in Your Classroom Tomorrow,” and offers a complete step-by-step system together with hundreds of practical strategies to:
- Stimulate student interest from the moment your lesson begins,
- Create a positive, collaborative classroom climate
- Minimize classroom management issues related to boredom and low engagement
- Provide interactive lesson formats which even your most switched-off students won’t be able to resist
- Reach ALL your students through multiple learning channels
- Increase participation with little-known ‘involvers’ which work every time!
As teachers complete the course lessons they will be able to reflect on their current strategies and begin to implement new, possibly more effective strategies to keep students engaged in the classroom.
In this course you will:
- Develop engaging lessons that will draw students into the content being taught.
- Learn techniques to help reduce classroom disruption through various classroom management skills
- Create and develop your own teaching strategies that will increase student participation
- Acquire skills beneficial not only for your students, but for yourself as an educator as well.
- Develop techniques to create a desire to learn from all students
- Describe the effects of implementing particular techniques in the classroom and the impact it has on students
- Assess current strategies and compare new strategies to see the difference
- Develop new teaching methods to help transform negative attitudes into positive attitudes.
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“The course, Motivating the Unmotivated, is a valuable course designed to help teachers become more successful at reaching all students in the classroom. The author of the book discusses alternative methods to dealing with students that don’t respond to the traditional methods of teaching. The sample activities and ideas shared in this course are easy to follow for all ages and subjects!” -Beth R., IA
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“This course did a great job at giving me the skills needed to motivate students who sometimes lack interest in the classroom. It allowed me to get an idea of what positive, collaborative classroom climate looks like as well as ideas to reach all students through multiple learning channels. It also provided me with information on minimizing classroom management issues related to boredom and low engagement while increasing participation in my classroom.” -Kyle P., IL
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“I thought my course Motivate the Unmotivated was great. The way this book is organized makes it very simple to understand and well thought out. It gives so many different ways to help students.” -Don C., OH
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“This course gave me many useful and practical strategies to use in my kindergarten classroom to motivate all of my students! Excellent course and worth my time!” -Chandra L., NE
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“Motivating the Unmotivated gave me several avenues to pursue in the never ending quest to get kids to perform with purpose. As always, Educational Resources continues to produce courses that are 100% relevant to people in the trenches who actually do the work in schools every day. As with every class I’ve taken from Educational Resources, I now have more tools to be a better teacher.” -S. Jones, NE
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“I greatly enjoyed taking this course. It’s so nice to have the book to keep as I wrote notes throughout. I enjoyed going at my own pace. I gained several takeaways and many reminders or reinforced ideas of what I am already incorporating. Thank you.” T. Wiese IA
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“This Course will benefit me in the position I am in as I want to become an administrator. This course has wonderful strategies that can be used in any classroom. As a teacher who covers multiple rooms because of lack of subs, these strategies I can use in their rooms as well.” –Pam H., IA
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“Thank you for introducing me to his book by Plevin. I think it was definitely necessary and eye-opening for me as a teacher. I will definitely try some strategies from it and use my action plan this coming year. I felt each part of the book was relevant to my everyday teaching and it definitely reminded me about consistency in my classroom.”–Marissa F., CA
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“This course was well thought out, and will benefit me in the future when motivating my students.”–Amber S., NE
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“Thank you for creating these courses that are meaningful and practical for teachers. The amount of work is just right and I appreciate the options on some of the components so I can decide which task I’d like to complete.”–Jessica B., OH