Motivating Teens With Classroom Competitions

Making games a regular part of class can get even the coolest high school students engaged in the content-and help them recall key concepts and vocabulary.
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In Nicole Goepper’s French classes at Fauquier High School in Warrenton, Virginia, games aren’t something extra: They’re woven into the structure of the classes, and they happen every day. From learning new vocabulary, to conjugating verbs, kids can’t wait to win. “I think when there's like competition and like a prize involved or whatever,” says 10th grade student Kiersten, “it really helps motivate us to want to like, beat each other.”
On any given day, students may participate in a verb conjugation Riff-Off (inspired by Pitch Perfect) or whiteboard relay, the colors game (where students race to different walls to touch the color Mme. Goepper names in French), the numbers game (where students line up and form complex numbers, say 1789), or the body parts game (where students must hit certain body parts on a drawing of a human body on the white board, using colorful fly swatters), just to name a few.
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[@mamRuth]

Thankyou for sharing, im an english teacher and i think i can use this in my class

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In India these are limited to books only ,at most of the places!! Practical learning still lagging & traditional methods are on leading...we teachers never get freedom to do our own style of teaching as now a days Education is business at most of the places & due to superiority of authority..Convectional methods are not replaced by constructional methods yet!!

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[@DANNYN224]

Great class used to take French in high school don’t know alot but little bit

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Lovely ma'am. Thanks for sharing