Chapter 2: Motivating Young Adolescents

This chapter talked a lot about the different ways in which you can get your young adolescent students to be interested in the material that you are teaching them. The idea to make stories into the material is a really good idea. Especially for those students who like to hear things in the way of a story, it makes them create connections with characters, and gives them the ability to learn the material in a different way. I also like the idea of putting music into the classroom as much as possible. I am one of those learners who likes to have music playing constantly. It triggers my brain in a way that silence doesn’t. Some of my students may learn the same way. This chapter is a good tool to get all of the different ways to get the young adolescent attention for them to have a good learning experience while they are in middle school.