Student motives for online learning used to include, “It’s more convenient,” “I enjoy the anonymity,” or, “It’s easier and takes less time.” However, since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, these ...

Rebecca A. Huggins is a secondary literacy leader and instructional designer with over 15 years of experience supporting teachers and districtwide improvement. She is the author of the forthcoming ...

Have you ever asked yourself, "Can I really motivate my learners, or can I only create the right conditions to inspire motivation?" Let’s explore what motivation is and how we can enhance it. When ...

European Journal of Psychology of Education, Vol. 27, No. 2 (June 2012), pp. 177-193 (17 pages) This paper presents the development of a heuristic framework that integrates three aspects of context ...

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Supporting student engagement and creating the conditions in which student intrinsic motivation can flourish continues to be a challenge facing teachers in the classroom. Today’s post is the latest in ...

On a recent morning, I had the chance to read poems my ninth-grade English students had written about encounters with racism. I was struck by the beauty and poignance of many of their lines. Yet I ...

Motivating kids to do schoolwork was hard enough in pre-pandemic times. No matter how skilled the teacher, and how clever the lesson plans, most kids would find at least some academic work utter ...