Driving Force: Keys to Developing a Motivating Classroom

3 credits/Audit
3 Graduate Credits for $385 or Audit for $199 - You Choose!
(all course materials included)

Explore dozens of strategies to more effectively engage and motivate your students in the following areas: homework, literacy development, classroom procedures, and progress tracking. Examine ways of making your classroom more positive, inviting, and conducive to student learning and student success.

Goals and Objectives: As a result of participation in this course, students will be able to:

1. Know factors and situations that are likely to promote or diminish intrinsic motivation and how to help students become self-motivated.
2. Learn how to establish a positive climate in the classroom.
3. Use different motivational strategies that are likely to encourage continuous development of individual learner abilities.
4. Engage students in individual and group learning activities that help them develop the motivation to achieve.
5. Understand the benefits of the backward design approach of lesson planning.

What your colleagues are saying about this course:
“I truly enjoyed reading the text. I feel I got many excellent ideas of how to make my classroom better and help make the environment one for student success.”
Todd Williams
Reading, Pennsylvania