Title: 15 Actionable Strategies for Increasing Student Motivation and Engagement
Headings: 15 Actionable Strategies for Increasing Student Motivation and Engagement
15 Actionable Strategies for Increasing Student Motivation and Engagement
Establish relationships with students and build on their strengths
1. Give students an opportunity to show what they value most.
2. Make better decisions by collecting clear data on your students.
3. Ask students what they expect from you and make sure you meet their expectations.
Give the students choices whenever possible
4. Let students choose what they want to learn.
5. Give students options for how they want to learn something.
6. Let students choose their own assessments.
Whenever you can’t give students choices, find ways to make it relevant
7. Leverage social media.
8. Create authentic learning experiences instead of abstract challenges.
9. Integrate pop culture into your lessons using song lyrics, memes and clips from movies and television shows.
Model goal-setting and goal-tracking
10. Publicize goals to help students to stay accountable.
11. Create vision boards using Canva.
Offer Consistent and Constructive Feedback
13. Give effective and objective feedback.
14. Give meaningful praise that will help students to know what they are doing right.
15. Give timely feedback.

Content: Literally, a vision board is any sort of board on which you display images that represent whatever you want to be, do or have in your life.” In this tutorial from Marquette Sharie, students can learn how to make their own Vision Boards using Canva. 12. Give opportunities to reflect on those goals. Goals are meaningless if you don’t regularly track your progress and think about what can help you to achieve them. Use reflection sheets like the one below on a daily or weekly basis to encourage students to consider the actions they’ve taken toward accomplishing their goals. My favorite part of the example below is the word, “yet.” This small word can make a big difference in student effort! Offer Consistent and Constructive Feedback
One of my college professors used to underline my entire assignments as he read them, then write a “B” at the top of the papers–with no explanation. As you can imagine, this information was meaningless to me, and gave me no opportunity for growth.