JYT2 Task 3

I think some of the challenges that students have in certain academic areas can be explained by their experience around motivation and achievement. One of the challenges with student motivation falls with making students feel engaged in a lesson or unit, and providing them with opportunities for some of the buy-in to keep them motivated throughout a lesson. In math for example, many students do not see the value of much of what is being taught to them. Students need to see some value in whatever the course material may be. They often question what the importance of a lesson is, and ask themselves, what does it matter. Math concepts need to be authentic problems to increase student motivation. Students might also see the content area or classroom climate as...