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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“This course will help me this upcoming school year to keep my students engaged and motivated. I really like how they presented a few different strategies to use when a student doesn’t respond. I will use what I have learned and apply them when needed.” –Adam D., MO
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“I found the strategies and examples listed by Plevin to be very helpful and relevant. I will use this course to mold my teaching to best fit the needs of all my students in my class. Those that are already motivated and those that need extra encouragement.”–Steve H., IA
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“Motivating students, especially after COVID 19, has been a challenge for all teachers. This course did a good job of reminding me of the basics. This course reminded me to think about all my learners in the classroom and provide strategies that can help to engage students that appear apathetic and disinterested.”–Cory D., CA
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“Motivating the Unmotivated has gifted me with proactive strategies to prevent behavior problems and build student relationships.”–Shelly P., IL
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“This was a great class with ideas and strategies for motivating students. It gives realistic ideas that can be used for students, not just theories about why students are acting unmotivated.”–Tina G., IA
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“I enjoyed this online book study course. It gave me several new things I can bring back to my classroom this fall. It was very user-friendly.”–Kristi B., MN
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“This was great course on how to help my students become motivated. Anymore, kids don’t want anything that has to deal with school. They just want to play with their friends or on video games. I will definitely be using these tips on how to motivate my students.”–Christy M., NE
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“I really enjoyed this course. There are many ideas and strategies that I plan to implement within my classroom and share with other staff members in my building.”–Casey D., MO
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“I love that I am able to take your courses at my own pace. I have learned practical information and strategies that I can implement into my classroom right away. I liked that the text chosen for this course was applicable to my teaching position with many classroom examples.”–Tina B., MN
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“Really like the course. I feel that there are a lot of useful information and ideas that will help me to start the new school year.”–Ryan E., NE