Motivating Young Adolescents

Meet Me In The Middle: Chapter 2

Abstract:

Chapter 2 makes you look around your room, examine, your lessons, and assignments and try to figure out a way that could make these things more inviting and effective. There are 17 suggestions in total and stories along the side of each suggestion from middle school students. These are GREAT suggestions. Most of these are ones that are one that have been mentioned in the education classes that I have taken, but they go into good depth on how to apply it and give a story of how it worked for a student.

Reflection:

“Getting young adolescents to pay attention and learn is 80 percent of our battle in middle schools” (page 7). I honestly couldn’t have put it better. My favorites were the not obvious ones that you normally don’t hear about: build suspense, use stories, use PQRST to motivate reading, and let students use their bodies. The suggestions along with the stories is effective information that every teacher should read. You can apply these suggestions at every level of schooling, not just in Middle School.