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Daniel Wong, international speaker, author of The Happy Student
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The Other Side of the Story: Daniel Wong on Student Motivation and Learning Perspectives

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Hardly anyone is born with the feeling that learning is important. It’s something that many of us are likely to embrace after high school graduation or even later. Who holds the key to student motivation so that they can be engaged in the knowledge discovery process? Surely, parents and instructors are involved. They can eventually help students establish their goals and find the pathway to reach them.

Here’s when fellow students also contribute greatly by showing their interest toward studies and the progress they make.

To see the world of academia through the eyes of a student and better grasp their potential motivation drivers, we’ve connected with Daniel Wong.

In Classroom Practices

The Reasons Behind Plagiarizing: A Deeper Look

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Plagiarism these days is an ever growing problem. According to Unicheck statistics, nearly 58% of students admitted to plagiarizing just in the last year. From simple copy-pasting to using essay mills, – the possibilities are endless. Because of that, more and more institutions are actively seeking effective solutions to the problem. But before looking for an answer, we must take a better look at the question, and try to understand the reasoning behind cheating and ways educators can empower their students and promote better writing practices.

In Classroom Practices

Improving Writing Skills: 5 Things You Forgot to Tell Your Students

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Passion is what makes good writing but only practice is what makes good writing real. Walking into the classroom with a bunch of blank papers, pencils, and big expectations is not the best approach to enhance writing skills of students. The writing skills nurturing should develop gradually and turn into steady practice environment where each student has own reason to write. If you want your students to turn into enthusiastic writers, you need to let them understand the basics of the clear sentence construction and support them on every stage of the writing session.

Professor R. Kellogg in the “Psychology of writing” book suggested several principles of the writing practice based on the conducted research. According to the book, the good writing habits are based on efforts and motivation, repetition and attainability (the level of skills already attained by the students). In this topic, we will discover how to raise the level of writing attainability, learning the components of the balanced sentence and using practical exercises to support the skill retention.

In Classroom Practices

Activities for Classroom that Make All Students Cooperate

5 Mins Read

There is one thing high school students lack: attention. And involvement in the classroom activity. And engagement in learning process.
OK, that’s more than one thing. Still, a distracted student in high school is a common occurrence. Put several of them in the class together, and you get an unconnected bunch, only half-listening and quarter-learning.
But there is a way up this slippery slope.

the art of storytelling
In Classroom Practices

The Art of Storytelling and How to Benefit From It

3 Mins Read

Storytelling is a way to compose and deliver a story to the audience with a certain meaning. To tell informative stories with the ending that becomes food for thought has always been popular and engaging. Storytelling at school suggests a variety of opportunities for students to learn how to express their thoughts logically, and how to create something unique that nobody has never told before.