Webliography

__**Source:**__ Harris, Robert (2010). //Some Ideas for Motivating Students.// <[]>
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__**Summary:**__ This article discusses ways to motivate students to learn. The article gives 9 different strategies for motivation.


 * __Benefits:__** For each idea that is presented, the author gives examples to explain his idea in greater depth. At the end of the article, Harris discussed why kids are not motivated in school, but are motivated by sports. He compares how the things that make students work hard in baseball and motivates them can be adapted to the classroom.

__**Limitations:**__ none?


 * __Relevance:__** When students are motivated to learn, student achievement increases and classroom management issues decrease.

__**Use:**__ The article would be used for teachers to use to increase motivation.

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 * __Source:__** Belcher, Erica (2011). //How to Motivate Uninterested Students.//

__**Summary:**__ This article discusses ideas that teachers can use to motivate students that are unmotivated.

__**Benefits:**__ The article gives 5 different ideas to motivate the unmotivated.


 * __Limitations:__** The article doesn't give examples of how the author used the ideas in the classroom. Doesn't address instrinsic vs. extrinisic motivation.


 * __Relevance:__** Same as above. Research shows that when students are motivated to learn, student achievement increases and classroom management issues decrease.


 * __Use:__** The article would be used by teachers to help increase motivation in the classroom.

__**Source:**__ Kolar, Rachel (2011). //How to Use Differentiated Instruction to Teach Modern Languages.// <[]>


 * __Summary:__** This articles discusses ideas on how to differentiate instruction in the foreign language classroom. The article talks about 6 different ways to differentiate instruction.


 * __Benefit:__** The 6 different ways are useful and give some examples of use for the classroom.


 * __Limitations:__** It doesn't show to to differentiate instruction using the entire instructional sequence.


 * __Relevance:__** Differentiating instruction can help to minimize classroom management issues by meeting the needs of all learners as discussed in the Professional Teachers Handbook in Chapter 4.


 * __Use:__** The article is for teacher use.

__**Source:**__ Theroux, Priscilla (2010). //Enhancing Learning - Intrinsic Motivation// <[]>

__**Summary:**__ This article discusses developing and maintaining ways to motivate students, especially from the standpoint of trying to motivate the underachieving gifted student.

__**Benefit:**__ The author gives 21 strategies to use to motivate students that she used in her own classroom over a 15 year period. This is a good article and worthy of reading. It includes a list of other resources and other links to consult.


 * __Limitations:__** Even though the explanation of the strategies is adequate, she doesn't add in examples from her classroom experience.


 * __Relevance:__** When students are motivated to learn student achievement improves and classroom management issues decrease.


 * __Use:__** The article is for teacher use.

__**Source:**__ Montgomery, Cherice (2006) //Language Links//. 

__**Summary**:__ The purpose of this wikispace is to provide a space where world language educators can share ideas and insights in the world of teaching. Some of the topics that are discussed are classroom management, assessment, pedagogy and instructional strategies.

__**Benefit:**__ This site has a ton of information and resources. It includes uploads of activities that can be used in the classroom.

__**Limitations:**__ None


 * __Relevance:__** This wikispace covers many of the topics that we've discussed such as classroom management and instructional strategies.


 * __Use:__** The wikispace is for teacher use.

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 * __Source:__** Raising Children Network (2009) Bullying How to spot it.


 * Summary:** The article defined what bullying is and what to look for when someone is being bullied.

__**Benefit:**__ The article gave example of bullying and what to look for.


 * __Limitations:__** It was written for parents, but I think it is relevant for teachers too.


 * __Relevance:__** Many of the posts and a couple of the reading for this course covered the topic of bullying.


 * __Use:__** For teacher use, but I think that students could read it also.

__**Source:**__ Oehlert, Mark (2010) Help with Bullying: A Safe School for All Students. []


 * __Summary:__** The articles discusses the fact that bullying is a school wide issue and prevention of bullying makes a school safe.


 * __Benefit:__** Reinforces that idea that students need to tell an adult about a bully as soon as possible.


 * __Limitations:__** Doesn't really describe what bullying is or what to look for.

__**Relevance:**__ Bullying is more common is schools then people imagine. Teachers need to be educated on the signs of bullying so that it can be stopped.

__**Use:**__ Teacher use.

__**Source:**__ Hayden, Kellie (2010) How to Deal with Missing Assignments. []

__**Summary:**__ The article presents 3 different tips on what to do with students who don't do classwork or homework.

__**Benefit:**__ It is a short article.


 * __Limitations:__** The 3 tips are what teachers already do and still have students not turning in work. There was no new information.


 * __Relevance:__** When students turn in their homework/classwork student achievement increases.


 * __Use:__** Teacher use.

__**Source:**__ Trim, Diane (2010) How to Encourage Challenging Students to Turn in Homework. []


 * __Summary:__** The article gives 10 different strategies to use so that students do their homework.


 * __Benefit:__** There are a few strategies that are unique and new to me that I will try.

__**Limitations:**__ none

__**Relevance:**__ When students turn in homework/classwork student achievement increases.


 * __Use:__** Teacher use.

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 * __Source:__** Kayi, Hayriye (2006) Teaching Speaking: Activities to Teach Speaking in a Second Language.


 * __Summary:__** This is an article from the Internet TESL Journal. The article discusses why it is important for students to speak the target language in the classroom and gives a list of activties to keep the students the language.


 * __Benefit:__** The article provides a long list of speaking activities with a description on how to use them.


 * __Limitations:__** Doesn't give ideas for keeping the students in the target language inbetween activties.


 * __Relevance:__** Keep students engaged in the classroom helps with classroom management issues.


 * __Use:__** Teacher use.