Educational Issue: Motivation

I love love loved this lesson!! I thought the links were extremely valuable, due to the awesome content. I thought that the interactive history/English games would definitely boost motivation in my classroom because they are not only fun and engaging but really informative and not too far off task. I thought the the 'true and false' segment was also well used to get our brain's engaged in the subject matter and thinking about the topic. I thought that the 'nightmare students' table was also very interesting because I truly wasn't sure how to react to the students in question, and I found myself wanting to go to the 'send him /her to the office' standby, which really shocked me because I do not think I am/want to be that kind of teacher. I was really thankful that I was faced with these issues because it really made me think about putting a student's motivation above punishment.