How to involve your learners (teenagers)

Teenagers are more active at the lessons if they have some input into a situation. In this case, they are more motivated

How to include teenagers in your lesson aims:

·                     Put the aims on the board at the beginning of the lesson. At the end of the lesson ask your learners to decide whether they achieved them or not;

·                     Don’t give the lesson aims at the beginning of the lesson. Instead, at the end of the lesson, ask your learners what they think the aims were. This can be particularly useful if you work in a country where learners like to write a summary of the lesson;

·                     Include behaviour aims as well as learning aims. Get your class to decide on these for themselves;

·                     At the beginning of the lesson, ask your learners to complete the beginning of a sentence about their personal aims. "In this lesson, I want to..."

·                     Give each learner a piece of paper. Ask them to write down their personal aims for a series of lessons. Stick them at the back of the classroom, turned over so they can’t be seen. At the end, ask your learners to look at their aims to see which ones they’ve achieved;

·                     Idea suggested by a teacher in the forum "Cambridge English Teacher" - "In the course of the first week of our school year I set in unison with my students what I call Behavioural goals as well as set up a Learning contract. These are then typed up and each student receives their own copy, signed by both students and parents. This practice has proven to be extremely effective and has significantly reduced discipline issues" 

  

Links:

http://www.cambridgeenglishteacher.org/courses/details/19104/motivating-teenage-learners