AVReading November: Motivation II
About a few years into my teaching career, I was given the opportunity to move into the honors and accelerated English classes. It was an awesome experience, and I learned quite a bit about good and bad teaching through my experience with those very motivated and ambitious students. After a number of years however, I knew it was time for a change, and I transitioned into the role of a reading specialist and began to work with students who really struggled both with reading and with school. It was a dramatic shift. In my honors classes, students would want to argue over a point they missed on their essays, papers, and tests. In my reading intervention classes, students weren’t interested about how or why they lost a point here or there, they were more interested in why they had to do the assignment or activity in the first place. I learned real quickly that before I could do anything to help them develop their academic literaci...