Presentation given at the Professional Development Workshop for member of the National Suppport Services from eTwinning Project.

1. How to motivate teachers
Rita Zurrapa
English Teacher, NSS Portugal
Warsaw, 16-17 June 2016
PDW for NSS

3. Aims of the Workshop
How to motivate teachers?
• To share experiences
• To discuss
• To collaborate
• To share good practices examples
• To share useful resources
• To make us think!

4. NOTE!
• You are free to disagree!
• You are free to agree!
• You are free to add!
• You are free to share!
• You are free to speak up!
• You are free to collaborate!
DuringtheWorkshop
You are free to be an eTwinner!!

5. NSS reality

6. NSS reality

7. NSS reality

8. NSS reality

9. Question Time
Are/Were you a teacher?

10. Question Time
Have you done any eTwinning
Project?

11. Question Time
Do you yourself do sessions
for teachers?

12. Question Time
What do enjoy most about
teachers sessions?

13. Question Time
What do you enjoy less about
teachers sessions?

14. Question Time
What do you focus on in a session?

15. "How to Motivate Teachers?"

17. Change!

19. Rita Pierson
Every Kid Needs a Champion
Ted Talk
https://www.ted.com/talks/rita_pierson_every_kid_needs_a_champion?la
nguage=en

21. Change teachers

22. Teachers get frustrated because they
can not teach...

23. Write 5 things that you think motivate teachers the most.

24. • Stand in two circles.
• Show and tell.
• Cross one out.
• Change partners. Move to your right!

25. In their own words
What motivates teachers?
• That minute when your students “get it,” and you know you’ve witnessed learning
take place.
• Those times when your students email you outside resources they think you would
like.
• The gift of lifelong learning that comes with being a teacher who teaches about
teaching!
• My students and my own research that keep me up-to-date on the newest research
as well as the latest strategies and methods.
• The opportunity to learn from and meet so many new people from so many walks of
life.
https://www.catapultlearning.com/motivating-teachers/

26. What do students want?
In their own words
"Know our names. When teachers know
who I am, I act better.”
"Try not to be boring. Teach us stuff we need to know. Make
class interesting."
All down the line similar responses emerge: Know us. Care
about us. Engage us. It is clear kids want to like school. They
want to be motivated.
http://blogs.edweek.org/teachers/classroom_qa_with_larry_ferlazzo/2013/11/response_there_is_no_such_thing_as_an_unmotivated_student.html

28. Schools have excellent teachers, but working badly. It
doesn’t make sense to have 21st Century students
learning from 20th century teachers, using 19th century
techniques.
José Pacheco

29. If we teach today’s students as we taught yesterday’s, we rob
them of tomorrow.
Jon Dewey (1859 – 1952)

31. Teachers fears

32. THE 21ST CENTURY demands!
Times are changing rapidly!
Teachers fears
Testing!

33. Too late…

35. It’s not all about…

36. Shock Therapy
Shock them!

37. 14th Century

40. eTwinning Sessions

41. What to tell them?
• Praise them
• Recognize their work
• Show empathy
• Don’t arrange extra work
• Integrate Curriculum
• Do what you usually do. Do not invent. Adapt!
• What’s in it for them?
• HAVE FUN!

42. eTwinning Session
• Believe in what you are saying.
• Show passion.
• Do not focus on technology. Focus on
methodology.
• Present eTwinning as a mean to help teachers.
• Make yourself available at all time.

43. eTwinning Session
• Good practices examples – Teachers (peer
learning)
• Be real and positive
• Present examples of simple projects
• Emphasize the collaboration factor.
• Listen to them and offer real solutions.

44. Present eTwinning projects as…
Share
M
A
R
T
Agree on a Shared Plan with partners
Involve students.

45. Present eTwinning projects as…
Share
Motivate
A
R
T
Get students excited
- Topic of interest
- Authentic audience

46. Present eTwinning projects as…
Share
Motivate
Adapt
R
T
- Be flexible
- Have an open-mind
It’s the journey that counts, not the destination.

47. Present eTwinning projects as…
Share
Motivate
Adapt
Record
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- Document the work.
- Try to involve eTwinning work in the
regular Lesson-planning.

48. Present eTwinning projects as…
Share
Motivate
Adapt
Record
Take it easy
- Enjoy yourself!!
Enjoy the experience of communicating
and collaborating with teachers and pupils.

50. Act-in-Art

53. Resources used in Sessions
Sir Ken Robinson – Animation TED Talk
RSA ANIMATE: Changing Education Paradigms
https://youtu.be/zDZFcDGpL4U
21st Century Competences – Above and Beyond
https://youtu.be/7KMM387HNQk
What is 21st Century Education?
https://youtu.be/Ax5cNlutAys

54. Resources used in Sessions
Julian Treasure: How to speak so that people want to listen
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eIho2S0ZahI
Sir Ken Robinson – schools kill creativity
https://www.ted.com/talks/ken_robinson_says_schools_kill_creativity
Ted Talks Education
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dilnw_dP3xk