Motivation strategies for eoi students and teachers

Motivation Strategies for EOI Teachers and

Students

Eva María Suárez GuillénEOI Santa María de Guía

Why is motivation important?

How do you motivate your students?

Why am I so concerned about

motivation?

My school

Students’ profile

Bachillerato students

University students

Professionals

Unemployed people

They are all different!

Do we need to motivate EOI students?

Don’t they come willingly?

NO

How do we know what they like?

Questionnaires

Direct observation

Facebook

Blog

StrategiesOur personal attitude

Methodology

Activities

Use of different resources

Use of video and music

Timing

Contents

Web 2.0

Our personal attitude

Methodology

Different class dynamics

Active lessons

Student focused

Communicative

Use of grouping

ActivitiesUse different activities to introduce contents, each lesson has to be different

Mingle activities

Fun activities

Discussions

Roleplays

Use of different resources

Book

Photocopies

Flashcards

Images

OHP (?)

Slides (with effects, music, etc.)

IWB

Videogames

Other ...

Use of video

Music and video help to create a nice atmosphere.

We can use them in any moment.

If we abuse, their effect disappears.

Film trailers, film extracts, series.

Series that work

Use of music

Songs to do actitivities

Songs to inspire discussions

Background music for activities

Timing

Organisation of our lessons

Warm up

Contents (when)

Fillers (to motivate, engage attention...)

Right duration of activities

Contents

Appropriate for the level

Relevant for our students

Linked to our students’ reality

Included in our curriculum (of course)

Web 2.0

Surprise

Example of activities

We can customise our activities to make

them more attractive

Let’s try to make this boring grammar

activity more fun.

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Where can we find motivating activities?

Totemguard

BBC Learning English

One Stop English

British Council

Lesson Stream

Cosas que encuentro para clase

Esl Classroom Activities and More

Esl Printables

Mashable

The English Blog