Motivating and Engaging Students
Numerous techniques exist to encourage students, convincing them that they can achieve success if they invest time and effort, and that their work has value.
By Bradley J. Ware, Ph.D., and C. Lévesque Ware, Ph.D.
Students are at times already highly motivated when they enter the lab/classroom due to past successes or an interest in the course topic. There are also those individuals who have not experienced the same positive results or who have a preconceived dislike for a course based on a perceived degree of content difficulty. It is precisely in the interest of both these groups that motivation and student engagement should be of primary importance for the chef/instructor from the very first day of lab/class. It is imperative to retain and foster the enthusiasm of highly motivated students and of dire necessity to help motivate others to achieve success.