Motivation strategies for eoi students and teachers

Motivation Strategies for EOI Teachers and Students
Eva María Suárez Guillén
EOI 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?

How do we know what they like?
Questionnaires
Direct observation
Facebook
Blog

Strategies
Our 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

Activities
Use 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

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