Seven Strategies to Keep Students Motivated All Year Long
By
Kendal Rolley
kqed.org
7 min
Keeping a journal with goals and reflections can help students see their progress over the year. That in turn helps them stay motivated.
Looking around my seventh-grade Language Arts classroom at the start of another school year, I saw the same range of reactions that we are all familiar with as teachers. Some students were obviously eager to get started, returning from the break with a desire to start the year off in a positive way. Others were less confident, and had evidently approached the end of the summer holiday with a sense of dread.
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