Author : Ruth Wells
There are so many great ways to motivate students to see
the value of school, and have better behavior. Our web
site
is packed with hundreds of methods, but here is a
small sampling to start off your new school year. If you're a
teacher, you will want to use every one of these gems.
These interventions should be used beginning with
Day 1:*** Brains Replace Brawn: Many youth say that
school is a waste, that they know many people who
have survived without education and skills. But
many of those people won't be going as far into
our new, high tech millennium as your students.
Show them they'll need education and skills to
survive. At the start of the 20th century, 80%
of jobs were manual labor. At the start of the
21st century, an amazingly tiny 15% of jobs are
manual labor. A strong back has been replaced by
brains and fingertips.*** Got Skills?: Few schools have a formal
plan to train students on the nuts and bolts
of being a student. Some students look that
way! They don't seem to have a clue how
often to talk in class, manage their homework,
arrive on time, etc. Be sure you teach all
these skills, no matter how old or young
your students are. Until they obtain these
basic skills, they will struggle. Here is
a very enjoyable way to easily teach
even oppositional students to hear
the homework assignment: Let your
students know that "embedded" in some of
the next assignments, will be a "goodie" that
they will easily obtain just by carefully
listening to the assignment as it is given.
(You could direct listeners to cached
cookies or stickers, for examples.)
Be sure to cover all other aspects of
homework management too. Many of our
books provide dozens of lessons to teach
all those additional components.*** What is On Time, Really? Being on
time can seem like unimportant to your
youngsters. Ask them if they will ever
need to work. When they say they will,
ask them to name all the jobs that allow
you to show up whenever you want, or
never show up at all. There are none.*** BONUS TIP: For students who are nasty to others, adapt the preceding
intervention. Ask the student to name
all the jobs and businesses they can do
and be mean whenever they want. There
are none. Ask recently fired, winning
Indiana coach Bobby Knight, who makes
an excellent example of how anyone can
lose their job. Show them nastiness
does matter.*** Lost in Cyber Space: High tech tools
are becoming absolutely essential. In
5-10 years, most bills may come via
e-mail. Test your students' readiness
to survive on our High Tech Planet by
having them define these terms: Mailer
Daemon, DSL, Spam, Server, Secure, Domain.Get much more information on this topic at
http://www.youthchg.com. Author Ruth
Herman Wells MS is the director of Youth Change,
(http://www.youthchg.com). Sign up for her free
Problem-Kid Problem-Solver magazine at the site and
see hundreds more of her innovative methods. Ruth
is the author of dozens of books and provides workshops and training.
For re-print permission for this article, contact the author byemail (dwells@youthchg.com.)
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