Motivation follow up

After listening this morning to other educators' thoughts on student motivation, I realize that I haven't used student recognition to my best advantage. My two action items I'm going to try this semester:

•  Make sure students know that others are reading their blog postings. Even one comment allows a student to know that his or her work is being noticed. I'm going to see if I can't get some sort of cross pollination going with Patrick and Matt's students. 
• I also like the idea that Matt had of showing off one student's work at the beginning of each class. Perhaps I ask that student to show it off in front of the class.
  
• At the end of the semester I'm going to have the students from both last semester and this current one do a presentation in conjunction with the Common Reading.

So many things to do, but all worth it because my students really are great.

So.... Hey guys, if you're reading this, I SEE you.

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