Motivation Matters: Educators Share Strategies to Engage Students – Education Week

For decades, educators have wondered how to best recapture students’ traveling eyes or prevent their heads from slumping onto their desks.

Student engagement is a perennial challenge in the classroom, but some educators worry that the pandemic’s shift to remote learning intensified the fight for students’ attention and academic participation.

We asked educators on social …….

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Mike O’Hearn and Ed Coan Talk Motivation Vs. Passion – BarBend

The 15th episode of The Mike O’Hearn Show was published on Generation Iron‘s YouTube channel on Sept. 16, 2022. In it, the show’s namesake spoke to legendary powerlifter Ed Coan. The 59-year-old Coan has set dozens and dozens of powerlifting records over his multiple-decades-long career.

O’Hearn opened their conversation by pressing Coan to explain how he differentiates motivati…….

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Buccaneers’ Mike Evans reveals Tom Brady motivation behind fight – ClutchPoints

Mike Evans made headlines on Sunday for all the wrong reasons after he was at the center of a brawl between the Tampa Bay Buccaneers and the New Orleans Saints. Evans got himself ejected from the game for his actions, and the same was the case for Marshon Lattimore of the Saints.

As he was getting thrown off the field, Evans made a Tom Brady-sized confession to the game officials. Accor…….

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A Grown Man: Fabien Lovett finds extra motivation in fatherhood – 247Sports

TALLAHASSEE – ‘Grown man’ is a fun football phrase to paint the picture of a massive specimen, albeit one that’s probably overused and undercuts what it really means to be grown.

In the sense of the idiom, Fabien Lovett is indeed a grown man. He’s a hulking 300-plus pounds with a burly beard, biceps that are the size of an average human’s thighs, and a fittingly low voice.</…….

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How to use the ‘motivation and engagement wheel’ to keep students on board – Times Higher Education

No university or college educator would dispute the important role of motivation in their students’ academic development. Motivation is alive and well – or unwell – in every student and every class, from undergraduate to doctoral level. Motivation is also generally easy to recognise; it’s pretty obvious when a student is motivated and when a student is not.

But from here, thin…….

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Great Grads: Baldwin High senior turns grief over her father’s loss into motivation – 13WMAZ.com

Morgan Pounds lost her father in a motorcycle accident in 2020. She and her family were overcome with grief, but the loss of her dad helped her find focus.

MILLEDGEVILLE, Ga. — As students in Central Georgia are preparing to walk across the stage and into the next chapter of their lives, we want to shine a spotlight on some of them who’ve overcome obstacles to get …….

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