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Devall, Kelly Davidson – Learning Languages, 2015
This article presents a question and answer session in which Paula Garrett-Rucks discusses how creativity and kinesthetics motivate young language learners, the type of characteristics she might consider for different age groups in planning lessons, her views on the goals of world language teachers of young learners, and what a typical lesson…
Descriptors: Creativity, Learning Motivation, Second Language Learning, Lesson Plans
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Dalton-Puffer, Christiane – AILA Review, 2012
From the point of view of AILA's research network "CLIL and Immersion Education: Applied Linguistic Perspectives" this volume finally does justice to a strand of interest that has been part of the network from its inception. As the editors rightly point out in the introduction, ReN events and publications during the network's first…
Descriptors: Stakeholders, Immersion Programs, Applied Linguistics, Foreign Countries
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Jago, Carol – Educational Leadership, 2012
Great literature gives students a window to other places and times, but it often requires students to step outside their comfort zones and take on challenges they wouldn't usually attempt. Unfortunately, research shows that many schools are not assigning literature that pushes students beyond their current reading level. Jago encourages teachers…
Descriptors: Reading, Language Usage, Reading Instruction, Teaching Methods
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DiCarlo, Stephen E. – Advances in Physiology Education, 2009
Teachers often overrate the importance of their content and underrate their influence. However, students forget much of the content that they memorize. Thus, attempts to teach students all that they will need to know is futile. Rather, it is important that students develop an interest and love for lifelong learning. Inspiring and motivating…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Learning, Thinking Skills, Learning Motivation
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Educational Leadership, 2011
This article presents prominent educators who describe the most important quality of an effective teacher. Sonia Nieto, professor at Emerita, Language, Literacy, and Culture University of Massachusetts, argues that in this age of hubris and shameless self-promotion, humility is an essential quality for teachers to have. Joseph Semadeni, fifth…
Descriptors: Teacher Effectiveness, Teaching Methods, Best Practices, Educational Strategies
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Chinn, Pauline W. U. – Cultural Studies of Science Education, 2012
Maria Andree focuses on an immigrant student whose error in a laboratory activity leads to a novel, colorful outcome that she excitedly shares with peers. After engaging in class activities for a few weeks she returns to her earlier dislike of science, saying: "I hate science, particularly Chemistry." The classroom activity system…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Class Activities, Cultural Pluralism, Learning Theories
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Ellis, Rod – TESOL Quarterly: A Journal for Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages and of Standard English as a Second Dialect, 2009
There is a wealth of literature examining the role of motivation in second language (L2) learning but remarkably little research that has examined how teachers can foster motivation in the classroom. For this reason alone Guilloteaux and Dornyei's (2008) correlational study of the relationship between motivational strategies and student motivation…
Descriptors: Student Behavior, Motivation Techniques, Student Motivation, Foreign Countries
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Morrison, Pamela Porter – Business Education Forum, 1988
In the formal school setting, the control of learning has typically been placed with the wrong person--the teacher. By modifying the control mechanism in the educational process and elevating the student to a position of "determining individual destiny," a catalyst for motivated learning may evolve. (JOW)
Descriptors: Business Education, Learning Motivation, Secondary Education, Student Motivation
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Peterson, Tom; Hart, Tobin – Educational Horizons, 1997
This essay is about rediscovery and renewal of a paradigm that is deeply rooted in spiritual traditions and the courage needed to reclaim its wisdom and power. "Spirit" refers to the quality that vitalizes individuals to venture beyond self-definition. (JOW)
Descriptors: Educational Change, Learning Motivation, Objectivity, Teacher Student Relationship
Ganzel, Rebecca – Training, 1998
Discusses the problems trainers encounter when dealing with resistant or reluctant learners. Recounts experiences and offers suggestions for dealing with students who do not want to be in the class. (JOW)
Descriptors: Adult Education, Learning Motivation, Resistance (Psychology), Teacher Effectiveness
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Williamson, Ben – Learning, Media and Technology, 2007
In this article, findings from a recent one-year research project that investigated the use of games in a variety of school settings are described and discussed. The project involved four schools and 12 teachers designing classroom activities around specific games to support learners both within the formal national curriculum and in the context of…
Descriptors: Computers, Games, Educational Environment, Teaching Methods
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Raghavan, Ramji – Education, Knowledge & Economy: A Journal for Education and Social Enterprise, 2007
"Rural education": the phrase conjures up unflattering images of broken blackboards and slates, lackadaisical teachers and students, rote learning and of outdated teaching techniques and suppressed creativity. Yet, these images are completely out of consonance with modern India and a knowledge-based society. This article describes a new…
Descriptors: Disadvantaged Youth, Creativity, Experiential Learning, Scientific Concepts
Ferenczi, Victor – Francais dans le Monde, 1982
Discusses the nonexistence of explicit reference to the learner's mental, linguistic, and cultural universe in traditional methods of teaching a foreign language and proposes teaching techniques that will facilitate the integration of the learner's local environment in the foreign language class. (AMH)
Descriptors: Cultural Context, Educational Resources, French, Learning Motivation
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Ecclestone, Kathryn – Assessment in Education: Principles, Policy & Practice, 2007
Research evidence that well-executed formative assessment raises achievement and enhances motivation and autonomy has influenced policy and practice in schools and universities in the United Kingdom. Formative assessment is also built into the aims and assessment activities of outcome-based qualifications in post-compulsory education. Behind these…
Descriptors: Formative Evaluation, Motivation, Foreign Countries, Vocational Education
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Jacob, Saied H. – Educational Forum, 1982
Piaget's theory of cognitive motivation is examined. Other Piagetian theories are also explored: the distinction between figurative and operative aspects of knowledge, and passivity versus activity. A limited set of implications of Piaget's theory and description of intellectual development for methods of active education are discussed. (CT)
Descriptors: Cognitive Development, Cognitive Processes, Educational Theories, Intellectual Development
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