Mid Year Student Motivation Tips

Student Motivation List

At this time of year many of our students have begun to loose focus, and interest begins to wane. As a result off-task behaviors begin to rise and classroom disruptions increase and we miss out on quite a bit of instructional time as we deal with these issues.

It may be helpful (especially with the males in your classroom) to take this opportunity to build into our instruction some items of high interest.

To that end, I am attaching to this message one of the surveys I provide students who have behavior challenges in an effort to find out some of their motivating factors. Feel free to add to, remove or modify the list as you see fit. Uses can be as simple as counting soccer balls instead of oranges during math class, or building the topics into your writing prompts.

Here is the list:
Airport tour
Animals
Architecture
Art
Auto mechanics
Auto dealerships
Backpacking
Barbecue party
baseball
Basketball
Beaches
Bike/Hike Trail
Birds
Board games
Boating
Bowling
Buy a car, how to
Camping trip
Canoeing
Car wash
Career clinic
Cars
Cartoons
Castles
Cats
Cave exploring
Child care
Civil defense
College or University visit
Collections
Communications
Community service
Conservation project
Cooking
Court Session
Cruises
Cycling
Dance
Diet and nutrition
Disabled citizen assistance
Dogs
Dolls
Drug abuse/alcoholism
Emergency preparedness
Exercise
Fashion/design
Fire safety
First aid training
Fish
Fishing
Football
Gardening
Golf
Gothic
Government officials
Ham radio
Hiking
History, town
History, family trace
Horseback riding
Horseshoes
Hunter safety
Indians
Industry, local
Insects
Job interview skills
Jogging/running
Jumping rope
Jungles
Leadership skills
Lifesaving, swimming
Martial arts
Military
Model building
Morality, ethics
Motorcycles
Mountaineering
Movies
Music listening
Nature
Nature walks
Newsletter writing
Orienteering
Outdoor living
Part-time jobs
Photography
physical fitness
Planetarium
Plants and wildlife
Plays produce
Playgrounds
Power station
Public speaking
Puzzles
Racing
Recycling
Rafting
Road rally
Rock climbing
Sailing
Saving money
Scholarships
Scuba
Senior citizen assistance
Skateboarding
Skating
Skiing
Slide show, plan a
Snorkeling
Soccer
Softball
Sports
Sports medicine
Sports safety
State capitol
Summer jobs
Television station
Tennis
Trains
Video games
Volleyball
Walking
Watercraft
Waterskiing
Weather bureau
Wilderness survival
Winter sports
Wolves
Woodcrafts
Other___________________________________

Let me know if you have any questions.

Reggie

Jade Mat Yoga

Weight Loss Programs - Which One Is Right For You?

Mustering up the willpower to keep on a schedule weight loss program routine is not a problem for some people. For others, staying focused on a weight loss goal is a major challenge. For these types of people weight loss programs are essential. They will not have the willpower to do the research and carry out the necessary actions independently. They would benefit from a helping hand.

For the individual that needs a helping hand and a structured weight loss program, they need to answer a few important questions in order to get the best weight loss program.

1.This is the most essential question: What are the facts about diet, exercise and weight loss?

With the advent of fad diets, special exercise regiments and all manner of junk science, it won't be easy for the less trained practitioner to sort the wheat from the chaff, to sort fact from fiction. The untrained practitioner has to make common sense decisions were to find reliable information to make educated decisions about weight loss programs. Scientific studies don't stand in isolation; they either support or contradict others. When you find that a number of serious sources agree, there could be good reason to give that weight loss program some credence.

2.Once you have educated yourself and made a educated determination of a weight loss program with a gym, then its time to find a knowledgeable and experienced trainer and nutritionist at the gym.

These professionals can be distinguished by the information that is passed along. Is the primary purpose of the information give to sell something? If so, the person giving this information may not be the person to pick. Pick someone that caters a weight loss program around you, someone that is trying to give wise counsel by directing you to wise eating habits, someone that offers something worthwhile and fundamental to the weight loss program.

Once you find a gym and/or nutritionist that can offer you good guidance and moral support, take advantage of the benefits offered. Such people can help remind you, when the going gets tough, of why you chose to make the effort in the first place. It's difficult to adhere to a long-term program when the progress is slow.

3. Pick weight loss programs that have exercise programs that are oriented towards lifestyle changes that will help you lose weight and keep it off and will also keep you healthy and fit.

Counseling provided by fitness and nutrition professionals can help you do that. They can help you unlearn bad habits and learn better ones, and encourage you to stick with them.

Your trainer and/or nutritionist should monitor your progress. Trainers and/or nutritionist will use test and special tools to monitor your progress. It will be a good idea that you learn the same techniques. As you get further in your development you will start to make these habits in your lifestyle.

Some of those tools are as simple and inexpensive as a scale, a flexible tape measure and a mirror. Others may be a heart rate or pulse monitor, a device that measures body fat percentage and other things that often accompany a treadmill.

4. Last but not least, you'll want to judge any program by how many people have actually found success using it. Beware of the hype. A few unsolicited opinions from people you don't know won't tell the whole story. Find out how many finished, and how much they lost, and were they able to keep the weight off. Also, learn whether there were any downsides or side effects.

It's your health. That's worth doing some homework to find the right weight loss program for you.

Kenneth Elliott is the owner of Diets. A website that reviews common weight loss programs. Also see: Weight Loss 4 idiots - A guide to 10 idiot proof rules to weight loss.

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