9 ¦ Q & A: Motivating young learners, classroom climate & teacher motivation
The Motivated Classroom
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The Power of Storytelling for Young Children
According to self-determination theory and the vast amount of robust research behind it, we all have the same basic psychological needs. We just need to make it more engaging in a storytelling narrative type way for them that they can follow along. Their attention span will be shorter so you might teach your little story or your narrative in a very short spurt of one or two minutes before doing something else. In terms of reading, if they're really, really young and they can't read at all, well then you use pictures and you use emojis to try and get them to understand what is going along in the story. If you are talking about younger learners, I advise to look up some
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