GIVE REWARDS TO YOUR STUDENTS, WISELY!

Do you often give rewards to your students? Give them wisely!

First of all remember that any kind of material reward is an external motivation. Avoid it, if it's not necessary! Try to develop internal motivation in your students e.g. by doing interesting and innovational lessons. Sometimes, however, especially with younger learners you need to motivate them with "prizes".  I want to show you that by giving them a reward you can actually teach them something. You can give the pieces of a puzzle to your students for their amazing accomplishments. Puzzles are the images of historical people, landmarks, symbols etc. It looks like this:

Don't tell your students what's on the picture until they guess it themselves! Their task is to collect... piece by piece... the more they have the bigger chance to guess what the image shows. They will ask their parents about that (which is also a good thing, because they get involved). Who guesses first -gets an extra piece! When the last kid collect all the pieces, you can make a lesson about the symbol from the picture they collected. These lessons are usually the best lessons - my students really love it and, what's more important, they remember it! This is typical win-win situation, they get their prize and I don't have this feeling of senseless rewarding because I smuggle some knowledge in it :) 

I made such books, use them to reward your students!

Download PDF version here:
https://drive.google.com/open?id=1WuUfLDC9flHMnZDKHGavcJ0nZ4IaQ4D7


When you find a picture you want them to collect cut it into pieces, and number each piece so that you didn't get lost in this little papers ;)

xoxo

Mrs Edi