Faculty Focus

JUNE 5, 2025

The initial enthusiasm for learning a foreign language may wane as other courses with demanding assignments compete for their attention. This is the moment when a language instructor must pivot, shifting the classroom dynamic to reignite curiosity and motivation. Instructions: 1. Choose a song in Spanish (e.g., 

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k12 Digest

MAY 15, 2025

Duolingos language lessons, which take just a few minutes per session, exemplify how microlearning can make consistent progress both accessible and effective. This kind of adaptive, data-driven support is helping students achieve more in less time, making learning both more effective and more motivating.

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eSchool News

JULY 2, 2025

The expanded solution includes more essential concepts and topics critical for learning to read, including foundational skills such as phonics, decoding, guided reading, and language skills such as vocabulary, spelling, word learning strategies, and more.

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Teach Thought

JULY 10, 2025

Since it encourages internal motivation through an outwardly-created set of circumstances, gamification sits at the awkward intersection of intrinsic and extrinsic motivation. In both cases, the specific content and the nature of the goals serve to motivate and direct behavior in classroom contexts.” Personal) your praise?

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k12 Digest

JUNE 23, 2025

For instance, at B.School, we designed a cross-subject project around the theme “Our Green Neighborhood,” where students from Grades 3 to 5 explored science (recycling, energy use), math (data collection), and language arts (report writing and public speaking) through hands-on fieldwork and community interviews.

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Edsurge

JUNE 16, 2025

For Johnson, it was a love of learning that motivated her: “I just like to know things about everything. Making Computer Science Relevant and Relatable A key takeaway for these educators was the power of language. And when I saw that these options were all STEM related, I thought to myself, ‘Let’s do it!’”

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Faculty Focus

JUNE 5, 2025

The initial enthusiasm for learning a foreign language may wane as other courses with demanding assignments compete for their attention. This is the moment when a language instructor must pivot, shifting the classroom dynamic to reignite curiosity and motivation. Instructions: 1. Choose a song in Spanish (e.g., 

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Faculty Focus

JUNE 1, 2025

In my more recent students evaluations, students say they are less stressed, they are more motivated, and they understand assignment expectations at the beginning of the semester. In evaluations, students say they are less stressed, they are more motivated, and they understand assignment expectations better. Schapiro, Barbara.

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k12 Digest

JUNE 23, 2025

For instance, at B.School, we designed a cross-subject project around the theme “Our Green Neighborhood,” where students from Grades 3 to 5 explored science (recycling, energy use), math (data collection), and language arts (report writing and public speaking) through hands-on fieldwork and community interviews.

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Faculty Focus

JUNE 8, 2025

Researchers have found that learners’ sense of belonging enhances psychological flexibility, learner satisfaction, motivation, and professional identity, thereby increasing student success (Carter et al., This sense of belonging is not a peripheral benefit – it is foundational to learner motivation, participation, and overall success.

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Faculty Focus

JUNE 8, 2025

Researchers have found that learners’ sense of belonging enhances psychological flexibility, learner satisfaction, motivation, and professional identity, thereby increasing student success (Carter et al., This sense of belonging is not a peripheral benefit – it is foundational to learner motivation, participation, and overall success.

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Evaluation Motivation Activities Study 54

eSchool News

JULY 20, 2017

Through the process of writing, writers put nascent thoughts into comprehensible language for others to read. In their pursuit of self-expression, they often find themselves challenged to find new words or motivated to develop academic vocabulary. This process can happen when studying any subject, not just English language arts.

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Teaching with a Mountain View

JUNE 19, 2025

Classroom Management and Student Engagement Teach Like a Pirate – A motivational guide to help teachers bring creativity, passion, and engagement into their classrooms. 7 Steps to a Language-Rich, Interactive Classroom – Strategies for creating immersive, language-focused classrooms to boost learning outcomes.

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Faculty Focus

JULY 20, 2025

Behavioral Observation : Observe and interpret body language and verbal cues to better understand customer satisfaction and needs. Tara describes how she uses psychological motivation techniques with her team of employees. Conflict Resolution : Implement conflict resolution techniques to manage and resolve disputes amicably.

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Teaching with a Mountain View

JULY 10, 2025

You can also hang up motivational posters, a calendar, a daily schedule, and current anchor charts to further set the tone for your homeschool space and really immerse your students in their learning. Create a Comfortable Atmosphere Finally, balance function with coziness.

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Teachers Pay Teachers

JULY 7, 2025

Maintain a steady stash of supplies Anyone who’s taught language arts (or any class, really) has heard “I forgot my pencil” more times than they can count. For students who are testing below grade level, incorporate the CCSS for language arts that are closer to their actual abilities.

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Teachers Pay Teachers

JUNE 27, 2025

Vision Board Student Workbook By Danielle Knight Grades: 4th-12th Subjects: English Language Arts Students will create a 15×20 vision board using this eight-section guide. Once all the pages are complete, students can use the information to create a vision board.

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Cult of Pedagogy

MAY 11, 2025

The Motive It is unknown whether Ruiz intended to cheat in New York or if the opportunity merely presented itself and she took it. Use rubrics as a shared language of the route that teachers and students can use formatively to navigate the path toward high-quality work rather than as a summative tool to justify grades.

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Primary Punch

JANUARY 2, 2021

These make mixed groups easy to plan, a variety of articulation and language skills are included in the pack. I intentionally gibe the wrong piece occasionally to ellict great spontaneous language/requesting. As most SLPs know games are super motivating to my students. Another fun language boom card deck is Build a Scene !

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Teacher Toms Blog

JUNE 10, 2025

but I wish he were more motivated." "I I'm sure that many parents would insist that they like their kids, but you wouldn't have to dig very deep to find the "but." "I I like my child. but she never listens to me." "I I like my child. I like my child. but all they care about is (fill in the blank)."

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Primary Punch

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

These are two boom card decks I’m most excited about, Articulation Valentine Party and Language Valentine Party. The articulation deck includes 25 different phonemes and the language deck has 20 different language skills. The language deck is mostly reading though so better for middle-upper elementary.

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k12

JUNE 24, 2025

She was also my animation teacher, and she was always very excited to see my submitted work come through, which motivated me a lot since animation is my career focus. I also really loved my Chinese teacher because she made me love learning the language, which is why I continue learning it even after taking her course.

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EFL Magazine

JULY 21, 2025

Experiential/Hands-on Learning in TEFL Experiential/hands-on learning has long been proclaimed by educators including myself as a fundamental factor in setting children up to have a lifelong love of learning and […] The post Experiential/Hands-on Learning in TEFL appeared first on EFL Magazine.

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Learning Language Languages Motivation 52

EFL Magazine

JULY 14, 2025

One-to-one Teaching – Ideas for Customising Your Classes As somebody who has been in the EFL space for several years now, some of my most rewarding, yet challenging experiences have […] The post One-to-One Teaching – Ideas for Customising Your Business Classes appeared first on EFL Magazine.

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Elevate k12

JUNE 20, 2025

This improves retention rates, creates a positive work environment, and ultimately benefits students, as they have access to dedicated and motivated educators. This program has been a key solution in areas like STEM, special education, and language immersion.

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Teachers Pay Teachers

JUNE 2, 2025

The slides include both psychology-specific and social-emotional prompts, including prompts about motivation and emotion, states of consciousness, and developmental psychology. Use them to begin longer narrative essays, begin class discussions, or introduce elements of fiction in your language arts class. Describe the perfect summer.

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Teacher Toms Blog

JUNE 2, 2025

I'm sure that at some level her motivations were educational, but I think the main point was that we were living in a country in where the media was in a language we didn't understand, and she wanted us to be at least minimally entertained.

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Cal Matters

JULY 7, 2025

Katz acknowledged the emotional impact such language can have on Jewish communities. However, he thinks that “the overarching motivation for many of these people is to use this as a way of attacking higher education. At the same time, he expressed concern that some efforts to address antisemitism are being politicized. “I

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 8, 2017

This summer, Apple CEO Tim Cook announced a partnership with 30 community colleges to offer a two-semester course, designed by Apple engineers and educators, to teach students to build apps using Apple’s programming language, Swift. And Google recently announced plans to donate $1 billion to nonprofits explicitly to train tech workers.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 11, 2020

If you want to effortlessly become an expert in a new language, you’re probably too late. And yet, adults regularly set out to study a second (or third, or fourth) language. So programs intended to make that process easier and faster are tapping into the science of motivation to improve their methods.

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 8, 2024

VIENNA, AUSTRIA – Lingvano, a start-up sign language learning app, is thrilled to announce they have reached 2.5 The platform offers an engaging method to learn sign languages, enhancing communication between Deaf and hearing communities. They are motivated to learn out of curiosity or a desire to be more inclusive.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 5, 2024

Society has always been fascinated to learn about the motivations of famous athletes, entertainers, and politicians and how they came to their profession. What if, similarly, we learned about the motivations of aspiring K-12 teachers, and used that to predict how effective they will be and how long they will stay in the classroom?

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Motivation Teachers Essay Language 209

Edsurge

FEBRUARY 8, 2021

But it was a move to Japan to become an English teacher that finally helped Bonner see how he could meld his love of language learning with his technology fascination. “I I started to slowly realize that this passion for technology, specifically virtual reality, had applications in language education. Read Bonner’s Research.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

JANUARY 20, 2025

Surprisingly, learning a foreign language has a set of guidelines that–if followed–are pretty good predictors of success. For many, the challenge of learning a foreign language like English may seem daunting, but with the right strategies, the process can become both efficient and enjoyable.

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Edsurge

MAY 9, 2023

The platform comes from the same stables — of MIT Media Lab — as Scratch, the free-to-use, ubiquitous coding language popular with young people from across the world. Competing [in a game] doesn’t work as motivation for every student. The idea is to keep learners motivated in a class. Quizizz is embodying this shift.

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Catlin Tucker

NOVEMBER 29, 2016

However, the very thing I love about Shakespeare’s plays–the language–is the exact thing that alienates so many students. The language is foreign and the humor goes over their heads. Contemporary translations to make the language more approachable. I’ve been in love with Shakespeare since college.

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Catlin Tucker

FEBRUARY 26, 2023

Clear expectations positively impact the students’ feelings of competence or confidence in their ability to complete a task, which can motivate them to put in their best effort. Step 3: Use a mastery-based scale and describe each criterion at each level of mastery in student-friendly language.

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