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6 Questioning Techniques To Guarantee Student Participation

22nd February 2018
/ Motivating students

Six Questioning Techniques To Guarantee Student ParticipationIn this video recording, I interview my colleague Martin Renton on using different questioning techniques to improve student attainment, engagement

Three MORE Ways to Make Praise More Effective

18th January 2018
/ Classroom Management Articles Classroom Management Strategies Lesson Improvement Motivating students Student Engagement

Way back in August 2017, we published a blog post titled ‘Three Ways to Make Praise More Effective’… Three Ways to Make Praise More Effective We received a lot of POSITIVE comments

Dealing with students who have no interest in the lesson

18th September 2017
/ Classroom Management Strategies Lesson Improvement Motivating students Student/teacher relationships

A student who has no interest in lessons and anything you say and do, can have a terrible impact on the rest of the class. What you must remember however is that this student probably wants to succeed

A quick, fun way to encourage learning

25th August 2017
/ Lesson Improvement Motivating students Student Engagement

Teach-back activities are fun ways to encourage students to cement their learning by teaching others what they have been taught – by demonstrating, explaining and teaching. Remember the saying ‘You

Great activity to get students working together

22nd August 2017
/ General Lesson Improvement Motivating students

The following activity is wonderful for getting students to work together to find their own solutions to their problems – from both a subject-based or personal perspective. It can be used as a basis

Three Ways to Make Praise More Effective

18th August 2017
/ Classroom Management Articles Classroom Management Strategies Lesson Improvement Motivating students Student Engagement
/ 1 COMMENT

Here are some ways of improving praise so that it creates the kind of positive changes you want to see in your challenging students… Effective Praise Enhancer # 1: Make it SPECIFIC. Let’s make a concerted

Consolidate learning with mini-reviews

7th August 2017
/ Lesson Improvement Motivating students Student Engagement Student/teacher relationships

Mini Reviews are a fantastic way to consolidate or reinforce any piece of learning in a fun, active way. I have used these successfully with all ages – young children in school right through to

Brilliant Review Activity – Gets ALL Your Students Involved

13th July 2017
/ Lesson Improvement Motivating students Student Engagement
/ 1 COMMENT

This plenary activity is fantastic for getting students to work collaboratively. It’s very ingenious (some would say downright sneaky) and effectively results in EVERY STUDENT taking part. If you would

HOW to engage your students

6th January 2016
/ Motivating students

As promised, here is the second video in this series in which I'll explain a very simple, easy-to-apply method to ensure your students REALLY ENJOY your lessons and come to class READY & EAGER

Student Engagement Strategies

9th April 2012
/ General Lesson Improvement Motivating students
/ 98 COMMENTS

Hellooooo!I recently ran a competition for our Student Engagement Formula. Entrants had to leave their favourite student engagement strategies in the comment box below to win full access to our comprehensive

ONE WORD that’s guaranteed to increase student engagement

3rd April 2012
/ General Lesson Improvement Motivating students
/ 5 COMMENTS

Yes, it’s true. This one, single word really can get ALL your students interested and engaged. Interested? Well, rather than tell you what that word is here, I’m going to direct you to a free

Student Engagement – What’s Stopping You?

22nd March 2012
/ General Lesson Improvement Motivating students
/ 52 COMMENTS

Hi,In around ten days time, on April 1st, I'm going to run a series of private (free) webinars explaining some great ideas (and a very simple formula) you can use to raise student engagement in your lessons.

About Rob Plevin..

As a new teacher in a comprehensive school, I really struggled to maintain control in the classroom before finally discovering how certain key strategies would lead to an immediate improvement in the way challenging students responded to me. Using these principles as a foundation I went on to develop a complete system for preventing and dealing with behaviour problems and improving student motivation in the classroom.

The ideas are easy to implement and work FAST. I've spent the last 10 years teaching these techniques and concepts to literally THOUSANDS of teachers and lecturers in schools and colleges all over the world and their comments on this site should convince you that this system works.

Category Archives for Motivating students

6 Questioning Techniques To Guarantee Student Participation

Three MORE Ways to Make Praise More Effective

Dealing with students who have no interest in the lesson

A quick, fun way to encourage learning

Great activity to get students working together

Three Ways to Make Praise More Effective

Consolidate learning with mini-reviews

Brilliant Review Activity – Gets ALL Your Students Involved

HOW to engage your students

Student Engagement Strategies

ONE WORD that’s guaranteed to increase student engagement

Student Engagement – What’s Stopping You?

25 Ways to get silence from a noisy group

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