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As a new instructor, one of the challenges that I am faced with is how to keep student's attention and motivation during classtime.  Student's will be preoccupied with their cell phones or up/down and in/out of the classroom during lecture time.  Some students will distract the lecture by diversional outbursts, hoping to get a class response and disrupt the lecuturer.

After completing one of the maxknowlege courses, it appeared to me that two types of motivators exist:  Intrinsic and Extrinsic.  Both can be helpful when preparing weekly lesson plans.  For example, emphasizing relevance to the topic at hand would be an extrinsic motivator for some students, whereas having learning activities for the students would motivate the intrinsic motivator in other students.  While our time in the classroom is limited, I have found that being prepared and structured is an effective use of time and most students tend to like the organization and different styles of teaching by their weekly feedback responses.  Overall, I try to change up lecture time by adding student activities in small groups and group presentations.

I totally agree

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