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http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qa4009/is_200304/ai_n9210174 This site titled “Motivational Strategies in the Elementary School Setting” attempts to explain what “motivation to learn” is and what role educators play in this motivation. It includes several motivational theories and effective techniques. http://www.nwrel.org/request/oct00/strategy.html This site includes strategies for increasing motivation and is titled “Increasing Student Engagement and Motivation: From Time-On-Task to Homework”. It explains why school practices affect a student’s level of motivation. It explains for the classroom, school, and district level. http://www.literacyaccessonline.com/Management/M_strategy.asp This website is called Literary Access Online. This link is titled “Motivation Strategies” and will give you suggestions for motivational strategies to be used in the classroom. It also gives suggestions on how to monitor the strategies being used. http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m2493/is_2_53/ai_108694376 This article titled “Motivational strategies: the outcome starts here: motivating through extrinsic and intrinsic rewards – Pedagogy Saturday VII Lunchtime Discussion” gives interesting and creative ideas for motivating students. http://serc.carleton.edu/NAGTWorkshops/affective/motivation.html This website for motivating students gives excerpts from the book __Tools for Teaching__ by Barbara Gross Davis that address suggestions for motivating in the classroom. It also discusses intrinsic and extrinsic motivators. At the end of the article it gives books and journal articles that are also helpful for finding ways to motivate students. http://www.members.shaw.ca/priscillatheroux/motivation.html This website gives a detailed inside look on intrinsic motivation and what role the teacher plays in this process. It also gives numerous detailed strategies for enhancing motivation. http://www.virtualsalt.com/motivate.htm The website called Virtual Salt shows an article called “Some Ideas for Motivating Students” by Robert Harris. It does just as it says and gives several ides and descriptions of how to motivate students. http://www.ericdigests.org/1995-1/learn.htm This article titled “Student Motivation To Learn” from ERIC Digest shares the definition of student motivation, what factors influence motivation, ways to help unmotivated students, disadvantages of intrinsic motivation, and how can motivation be fostered in a school setting. http://coe.fgcu.edu/faculty/ray/red/matrisk.htm This website gives examples of how to motivate at-risk students. It also shows how to monitor the student’s progress. http://www.umaine.edu/Flame/motivational%20strategies.htm This website shows a chart of “Different students will work for different things”. It gives suggestions and explanations of motivational tools to use in the classroom that vary for students. http://www.ehow.com/how_4466239_motivate-students.html?ref=fuel&utm_source=yahoo&utm_medium=ssp&utm_campaign=yssp_art This website shows an article titles “How to Motivate Students” by Gwynita Leggington, eHow Editor. It gives examples of how to use motivational techniques in the classroom. http://www.iser.com/resources/motivating-students.html This website from Iser Home shows an article called “Strategies for Motivating Students to Learn” by Adam Wexler contains six effective strategies for motivating students at the beginning of a lesson.
 * __ Pathfinder Title __**** : ** Motivational Strategies for Students
 * __ Introduction __**** : ** The topic for my pathfinder is motivational strategies to use with students in your classroom. The purpose of this pathfinder is for teachers to be able to find quick and easy ideas for motivating students in their classroom. Teachers are faced every year with students who do not have the drive to do well in school and the teacher’s expectations are not enough to spark that drive. This will give educators an outlet of ideas to help motivate an entire class or specific students that need that extra push.
 * __ Key Terms: __** motivational strategies for elementary students, motivational strategies for students, motivational strategies teachers, motivational strategies for the classroom, motivating students, and strategies to motivate students
 * __ Search Strategy: __** I started my search with Google and Yahoo. They both provided numerous sources for my topic, although, Google gave me many more useful websites that Yahoo. I tried Dogpile and Ixquick as well, which gave me many of the same websites that Google did. I also used ERIC and found some more research based articles concerning student motivation.
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