What do you do to motivate your students when they are unwilling to learn or misbehave.

 

I tried a system of pluses and minuses in which they get pluses for participation and good behaviour and minuses for bad beahaviour. The rules are very clear and they agreed to them, however they are happy to get pluses but complain a lot and get discouraged when they get minuses even though they know they deserve them.

 

I don �t know what to do to motivate the students who like misbehaving

Hi Saszka,

 

How about competitions. When I have naughty students in a class, I organize competitions: boys vs girls or however you �d like to gather them. sometimes I organize competitions against different classes. (1st year vs 2nd year, etc. )

 

They must always be held at the end of the class (last 10 min) and you don �t need to give a prize to winners. The prize is winning. 

 

The rules are: 1. if they misbehave more than 3 times in class, the competition is cancelled. 2. if they don �t pay attention, competition cancelled. 3. if they don �t work, competition cancelled, etc... You can add anything you want them to stop doing. the golden rule; If a group wins and they laugh at the others, and you see them or hear them (not just because they say it) at that moment, the winner group loses and the loser group wins. you are the judge, so nobody can discuss the rules. they are undisputed Competitions must be a moment of great fun for them. My students love "simon says" "the mirror" etc. So become aware of what they love doing and use it.

 

IT DOES WORK... Believe me... I hope you can manage...

 

Have a nice day... Hugs from Argentina. 

 

Here is one mirror game.

That �s the one! 

 

And they can also do it singing "This is the way..." (for example "this is the way I comb my hair, comb my hair, comb my hair. This is the way I comb my hair early in the morning" and so on)