Midterm+Motivation

There's a lot you can do to motivate your students during the mid-semester.

How the rhythms of the semester impact the mid-term What role emotion plays in faculty and student motivation How you can get your students to care, finish and succeed
 * In this workshop we discussed:**

We also talked about the **4 S's of Great Teaching** and what you can do to use them in your teaching: Show your enthusiasm Show your vulnerability || Give students autonomy Conduct surveys and get feedback || Find something that's new and exciting for you Take the spring break challenge - ask students to take a picture of something related to your course over spring break || Use Kahoot and other low-stakes assessments Play "Heads Up" and other vocabulary games to practice using course vocabulary Talk to an instructional designer for more strategies || Click the play button below to listen to the podcast- Midterm Motivation with Mike Stein and Dr. Chris Helfrich: media type="custom" key="29620683"
 * Know your**Self** || Treat each class like a story
 * Know your **Students** || Learn about your students
 * Know your **Subject** || Find current examples
 * Know your **Strategies** || Tell Stories
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 * Student Midterm Evaluation Survey:**


 * PowerPoint from the workshop:**

Lang, J. M. (2016). //Small teaching: Everyday lessons from the science of learning//. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass. Rothstein, D., & Santana L. (2014) //Make just one change: Teach students to ask their own questions.// Cambridge, MA: Harvard Education Press.
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