Provide role models to inspire us. I could not agree more, because most of the causes for unmotivated students are that they do not see the relevance to life that their subject is teaching besides earning a diploma.
I immediately began to think of way I could do this in my classroom. I thought of bringing in a holocaust survivor, someone who served in Vietnam or a person who is in a high paying job related to geography. However, I believe that the most effective method would be to ask former students to come back to the class and explain how learning the material helped better prepare them for both college and the “real world.” This would be an effective method because it would display the importance of learning (and thus success) in the classroom by bringing in someone who had the class, that knows the students, and can serve as a positive local role model that can truly relate to their experiences.
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