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Motivating Middle Level Students : Strategies To Help Reach And Teach Middle Level Students, Lisa L. Munsey
Motivating Middle Level Students : Strategies To Help Reach And Teach Middle Level Students, Lisa L. Munsey
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This review of literature focused on the strategies educators use for motivating the young adolescent in the middle level classroom.
Anderman and Maehr (1994) found motivation could be improved through a variety of methods by focusing on specific areas: developmental changes, intrinsic versus extrinsic, middle level transformation and classroom practice. Along these same lines, Curwin (2006) found motivation can be enhanced with practices in the middle level classroom through four main areas: (1) welcoming students to school and class, (2) stressing the effort students put forth, (3) increasing homework completion, and (4) turbo charging classroom lessons.
This paper focused on …