Section Twenty: Motivating Students' Best Work

• Part One: Identify the Knowledge and Skills Students Bring

1. Give a nongraded assignment during the first week (Number 159)
2. Review student transcripts (Number 160)
3. Review students' work examples (Number 161)

• Part Two: Give Students Skills and Knowledge to Do Well In Class

1. Orient new students to the University, the dept. and course (Number 162)
2. Give a mini-lecture on how to write a paper (Number 163)
3. Give a mini-lecture on how to read a book (Number 164)
4. Hold an outside review session every two weeks (Number 165)
5. Devote the last day of class to an overall review (Number 166)
6. Correct students' speaking errors (Number 167)
7. Emphasize how to learn form one's mistakes (Number 168)

• Part Three: Develop Positive Relationships With Students

1. Make personal contact with individual students (Number 169)
2. Individualize instruction as much as possible (Number 170)
3. Treat students like colleagues (Number 171)

• Model your own high standards to students (Number 172)