How do you motivate your students to participate?


Please share you ideas on how you keep your students motivated to participate in your classroom.

Do you have special awards or recognition ideas?

Can I make a suggestion as a student?

One thing that helps me is hands on participation. Actually being able to do the work and seeing the results after doing the task. The more of that there is, the more you've got my full 100% attention.

I've gone to several classes where there was more emphasis on written materials than demonstrations of what the materials were about.

Does that help?

  We give students gratuitys, Students who show comendable efforts on any repair will be given a small reward of 10-20 $. We also make sure that the vehicle owner gets a chance to speak to the student repairers. One project that I found to work well is our simple fender repair projects, we take donated fenders and cut them in half retaining only the front, which is damaged and taken threw the repair process, student who get to the final prepaired surface can custom paint their small fender and take it home these things have become a source of pride for students and they cover many skill areas.We have resently in our news letter listed the fender of the year showing a photo and listing the students name. Lastly all projects are documented with photos stapled to documented sheets explaining the students acomplisment for the student portfio,s.