Advice for faculty to find and maintain the motivation that they, and their students, need to progress in their work and ...

How to motivate, engage and retain students is a commonly discussed topic in higher education. From one perspective, we seem to be further from finding the magic ingredient than ever before, ...

Who doesn’t like praise? But there are ways to make it more effective. Here’s something I wrote recently about the topic for Character Lab as a Tip of the Week: “What beautiful music!” I exclaim as my ...

Teaching STEM subjects can be difficult, because many students lack confidence and motivation to tackle those courses and the academic rigor they require. Nearly half of teachers say they’ve asked ...

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 ...

Motivation is key to student learning as it influences attention, effort, and persistence. While some students are naturally curious, others may struggle to engage. The good news is that you do not ...

Lafayette Parish elementary students have another reason to meet their reading goals — the chance to win a brand-new bike or a number of other prizes thanks to a partnership with the Kiwanis Club of ...

BUFFALO, N.Y. (WIVB) — A Buffalo Charter School is trying a unique method to improve behavior in the classroom. Buffalo United is working with resilience trainer Duncan Kirkwood to improve behavior ...

As previously illustrated in the Preface, D. F. K. Bertolette wrote the following in his book: A teacher is not measured by the number of bright students he makes brighter, but rather by the number of ...

A lack of academic motivation is impacting high school students in a big way. To find out why, I asked my own students what drives them.

Educators, scientists, and politicians around the world recognize that the future of humanity depends on early science education. As societies around the world are striving to bring more young minds ...