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Student Motivation and Social-Emotional Learning Present Challenges. Here鈥檚 How to Help

By Larry Ferlazzo 鈥 July 08, 2022 6 min read
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During the summer, I am sharing thematic posts bringing together responses on similar topics from the past 11 years. You can see all those collections from the first 10 years here.

Today鈥檚 theme is Student Motivation and Social-Emotional Learning.

You can see the list following this excerpt from one of the posts:

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1. Want Students to 鈥楤uild a Better World?鈥 Try Culturally Responsive Social-Emotional Learning

The practice includes expanding students鈥 networks and developing their awareness of what it feels, looks, and sounds like to manage emotions. Read more.

2. Culturally Responsive Social-Emotional Learning: How to Get There

Bringing culturally responsive SEL into class can鈥檛 be done as an add-on. It needs to be integrated into daily routines and academic work. Read more.

3. Nine Strategies for Promoting Student Engagement

Five 糖心动漫vlog discuss how to maximize engagement, including the importance of understanding student motivation in and out of the classroom. Read more.

4. Increasing Engagement With Student Choice

Four 糖心动漫vlog discuss ways to increase student engagement, including providing choice and building a sense of classroom community. Read more.

5. Student 鈥楥ompliance Does Not Equal Engagement鈥

Four 糖心动漫vlog share suggestions on how schools can maintain student engagement, especially during the teenage years. Read more.

6. 17 Approaches for Encouraging Students to Revise Their Writing

Five 糖心动漫vlog offer instructional strategies to use when teaching writing revision, including the power of an authentic audience. Read more.

7. Ways to Help Ignite Students鈥 Intrinsic Desire for Writing Revision

Five 糖心动漫vlog make suggestions that might help students want to revise their writing, including by using 鈥渆diting stations.鈥 Read more.

8. 鈥業 No Longer Give Grades on Student Writing Assignments, and It鈥檚 the Best Thing Ever!鈥

Five 糖心动漫vlog share how they have helped students motivate themselves to revise their writing. Read more.

9. Making Revision of Writing a 鈥楥ollaborative Process鈥

Six 糖心动漫vlog discuss strategies they鈥檝e used to encourage students to revise their writing, such as demonstrating their own practice. Read more.

10. 12 Strategies for Encouraging Students to Want to Revise Their Writing

Four 糖心动漫vlog share suggestions for creating the classroom conditions in which students want to make revisions to their writing. Read more.

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The opinions expressed in Classroom Q&A With Larry Ferlazzo are strictly those of the author(s) and do not reflect the opinions or endorsement of Editorial Projects in Education, or any of its publications.

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