One of the biggest challenges for school leaders is trying to determine how to motivate teachers and keep them engaged and growing in the education profession year after year. We typically think of motivation as a stable characteristic. Either teachers are motivated or they’re not. That’s not the case. Motivation is something that is built and maintained within individuals. Teachers who are … [Read more...]
How to Motivate Teachers Using the IKEA Effect
One of the biggest challenges for many school districts is motivating teachers. How do I know? One of the most frequent search terms we have identified on k12hrsolutions.com is the question “How to motivate teachers?” This question has slowly risen near the top of all search results on the site over the past five years. This caused us to ask, are teachers that are entering the classroom … [Read more...]
Back to School Strategies for School Leaders: A Human Resource Perspective
It's that time of year again. A new school year is about to begin at school districts around the country. Chances are, superintendents, principals, and other school leaders have already returned from their short summer break to begin planning for the new year. Often, back to school huddle sessions among school leaders includes topics regarding new legislation and education policy, carry over or … [Read more...]
How Do You Motivate Teachers to Be More Effective? Part Two
The article below is a good resource that scratches the surface on how to motivate teachers. If you are looking for more in-depth and actionable information, we have an entire book that provides school leaders with a guide to designing districts that motivate teachers. For more information click on the image above. In the last post on "how to motivate teachers" the focus was on … [Read more...]
How To Motivate Teachers to Be More Effective? Part 1: An Organizational Psychology Approach: Part 1
Research journals are filled with strategies to motivate students to increase student engagement and performance. It seems to me, an important prerequisite question isn't asked enough. That is, how do you motivate teachers to be more effective? If teachers aren't motivated to improve the performance of their students, the students are not likely to be motivated … [Read more...]