Motivation+to+Learn

This area is linked to the EHSAS strand which are working on motivation and being valued. Staff from all schools have been looking at the tools they use in the classroom which encourage motivation and being valued. They have also been working towards making links within curriculum planning and in raising awareness across their whole school.

Some of the tools and ideas they have shared can be found at: Resources As can powerpoints that can be used at whole school level.

We can have discussions using the discussion page or through this link: [|Discussion] Really enjoyed the workshops - Wikispaces & Having fun/Motivation to learn. Have made my own class wiki & am using some of the Circle time ideas that I hadn't used before. I think it would be great to visit other schools/classrooms after school so that we can talk to the teacher's who are trying some innovative ideas. When we do school visits when teachers are teaching their class, we do not get to ask questions of the teacher without disrupting the teaching that is happenning. If these visits were to occur once a term or every two terms as an alternative to a staff meeting it would be great. Busy teachers would not resent yet another meeting after school hours if it replaced an existing meeting. Perhaps teachers could even nominate some of the interesting programmes they are running that relate to the strands. From this we we could create a "menu" from which you could choose to visit others. **WHAT DO YOU THINK??**