... that students who are bored by school and "unmotivated" in the eyes of the teacher nevertheless find plenty of motivation for playing a sport. The obvious question, then, is what is motivating about a sport? Think about a group of young people in a baseball game. The very things that motivate them to work hard and do well playing baseball can be adapted to the classroom. Let's ... , the students who teach each other will learn better than if they were learning alone. Why not let or even encourage your students to do their homework as a group? You will still have measures of individual le...

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... done they will do it and it seems like once they get their stuff done they don't really have anything to do. I think it would be hard to find things to do all the time and I think that I would get bored really quick. My life now is so busy that I can hardly find time to do all the things that I need to accomplish. It seems like there is always something to do and unless ... I just choose to be lazy and sit around that is the only ... sad. If you go through this for so long people are going to want to feel some other kind of emotion. I"m not saying that people want to make themselves sa...

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... over twenty five years and she believes that another good quality of a teacher is variety. She feels that many students get bored and lose their attention very quickly so you must be able to switch up things in class. She used a good example to explain this a little bit better. Mrs. Agliata said that she would only talk for about ten or fifteen minutes and ... out of this class. By doing this, Dr. Young says, it helps me know what the students are interested in a looking for and then I can redirect or add some things in my lessons to help the students obtain these objectives. He says th...

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