Giving every student an automatic A grade which they then must fight to keep is one suggestion from a new report into motivation in the classroom.
The study, from the Social Brain Centre at the RSA, offers a range of low-cost and simple ideas that focus on boosting young people’s expectations, resilience and enjoyment.
The advice is broken into three areas – mind-sets and attitudes, cognitive biases, and surroundings and environmental influences.
The report is entitled Pupils To ‘Defend Their A’: How behavioural insights can help teachers motivate their class, and its headline idea is that every student in a class starts the year with an A grade which they must continuously improve their performance in order to keep.
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