Home | How It Works | Stats Login | Register         Case: Motivation I have a student who has failed every class so far this year, and is currently failing every class he is taking. I have tried to help this student in my classroom, and have even reached out to one of our administrators who works with students like him. She spoke to him for a long time and his mother, and supposedly he was going to start doing better. He was going to attend Saturday School and make up work before the end of the nine-weeks. That didn't happen. He continues to refuse to work in the classroom and won't take any help I offer him. He would rather create conflicts with other students and disruptions with his behavior. How can we try to motivate this student? Solution: (Rates are posted for this solution!) Talk to the student, or have someone, teacher, administrator, counselor, that the student in comfortable with talk with him and find out what would motivate him or what he would work for. Some options that might motivate him would be, your approval, a reward, extra credit, maybe even "free time" to read, draw, or work on something else he finds interesting. You could then use the thing that motivates him to encourage him to get his work done and behave well in class.