How to motivate students? A constant complaint from teachers, parents, and adults, in general, is that today’s young people are unmotivated. How do we go about motivating these young people? As a teacher, I usually refer to my 7th through 12th-grade students as the “Why Generation.” I do not mean that they ask “why” like…
Interest driven learning is not a new revelation in the educational field. For years now, teachers have been using student interest when deciding on novels and texts to read in the classroom or when constructing lesson plans, but what does it truly mean to “teach interests”? Teaching student interest goes beyond teaching to the norm…
The key to helping students graduate on time and workers retaining their employees lies in the pivotal relationship between interest and persistence. If you work in education, you’re probably already all-too-familiar with this troubling trend: many students don’t make it to graduation. In fact, according to the National Center for Education Statistics, “the 6-year graduation rate…
If you’re a career counselor, student services representative, or academic advisor, chances are, you’ve complained about the fact that students don’t go to career counseling. After all, your entire purpose is to assist students throughout their journey, guiding them through high school or college and into an ideal occupation for their interests. Unfortunately, you can’t…
Major Changers are students who declare a major during their freshman year, complete their coursework, and then decide to change to a different major. Students make this change for a number of reasons, however, they fundamentally make the shift when they are unhappy with their field of study. Changing majors comes at a cost. Students…