Student motivation is an ongoing serious problem in high schools ...

[tfester]

Student motivation is an ongoing serious problem in high schools today. Discuss factors that contribute to low student motivation and ways you would seek to remedy the problem.
 
  What will be an ideal response?

Question 2

You have been asked to participate on a committee charged with designing the ideal middle school. Given your knowledge of middle schools and middle school students, what design recommendations would you suggest to the committee?
 
  Discuss three recommendations you would offer and the rationale for each.
 
  What will be an ideal response?

[parker125]

Answer to Question 1

Factors that contribute to low motivation include lack of meaningful challenge in the
curriculum, school size, and lack of extensive extracurricular activities. Possible
remedies include designing a curriculum that is intellectually challenging and that
requires social interaction, designing high schools for 200400 students, and offering
many extracurricular activities to engage students in the school.

Answer to Question 2

Recommendations will vary and should include the school schedule since current
middle school periods of 40 minutes do not allow for in-depth discussion; fewer
classes with different teachers each day since having many different teachers
prevents more personal student-teacher involvement; and school bonding
organizing the school into smaller groups so that teachers work with a limited
number of students, thus increasing student involvement and engagement in school.