MOTIVATION AND HOW TO MOTIVATE STUDENTS
Learn the secret ways to motivate students throough Integrated Units and Seemless Curriculum Plans.
The secret motivation that makes students read
Debates about improving student performance rarely take into consideration an important perspective of students, that is, how much they value an education and whether they see education as a path to success. Children who are emotionally involved by having fun and enjoying the activity. Test subjects are able to remember twice as many emotional words and pictures as neutral ones.
THE #1 DIFFERENCE IN CHILDREN'S SCHOLASTIC SUCCESS
Research done by US military schools has shown success depends on parental involvement.
- EVOLUTIONARY SCIENCE RESEARCH DOCUMENTS
THE IMPORTANCE OF PLAY IN LEARNING - EVOLUTIONARY SCIENCE RESEARCH DOCUMENTS
THE IMPORTANCE OF LAUGHTER IN LEARNING - REMEMBER YOU PLAY MUSIC YOU DON'T WORK IT.
Nature vs. Nurture
It isn't correct to frame the idea this way. Both of these are involved it isn't correct to pit them against each other. It doesn't matter what genes you are born with. Your environment shapes your potential.
Are genes destiny? Have adenine, cytosine, guanine and thymine replaced Lachesis, Clotho and Atropos as the weavers of our fate?
National Children's Folksong Repository K-12
SHOW PRAISE FOR THE UNKNOWN CULTURE MAKER.
MOTIVATE CHILDREN THROUGH RESPECT.
SHOW CHILDREN THAT YOU VALUE WHAT THEY ALREADY KNOW AND ASK THEM TO TEACH YOU.
SHOW THEM RESPECT FOR THEIR ORAL CULTURE.
HELP THEM TO COLLECT IT.
SAVE AMERICA'S ORAL CULTURE.
#1 -- MUSIC IS LANGUAGE AND LANGUAGE IS MUSIC
EVOLUTION OF LANGUAGE AND MUSIC
SPEECH AND SONG is an oral / aural tradition and is useful when there are stories to tell that may be as long as 2,500 verses. Songs are a simple rhyming mnemonic device which helps us even remember.
TEACH READING USING SONG (MNEMONICS - SPEECH AND MUSIC CONNECTION)
MUSIC AND READING CONNECTION We learn our first songs using rhyme to aid our memory. Songs help you memorize the information and since print was invented we've forgotten our roots of why we did it.
"Music helps lift reading off the paper - the words come alive to the kids,"
TEACH NURSERY RHYMES - KID'S DON'T KNOW THEM ANYMORE.
Hey Diddle Diddle <> Diddle Diddle Dumpling <> Jack Sprat <> Old King Cole <> Georgie Porgie
Cross-Curricular Thematic Instruction and explains What a Thematic Reading Curriculum is.
LEARN ABOUT THE FOLKSONG READING MODULE
POETRY, BALLADS, SONG AND PRINTERS WERE RESPONSIBLE FOR LITERACY.
You can easily use song lyrics when you do lessons on poetry. You can have students read the lyrics, and discuss the literary elements that are used within the context of the song. One thing that is important when you do this lesson is to make sure that you provide a good example lyric to show students. Try to choose a song that convays a particular message, or uses a particular image. You can also allow students to write song lyrics instead of longer poems as well. This will also allow your studnets to who are music people to show off their skills.
Poetry slams, for High School students are a fun, effective way to learn. They read their own personal poems, or they may sing their lyrics as well.
