Teaching Words

I have been trying my best to use teaching word, in Teaching with Love and Logic on page 146 it talks about using teaching words. This words encourage students to do their best and to finish the job. I have made myself over the past couple of days try and work this into my daily talks with the students. I want a certain outcome, I want the kids to do what is expected but I want them to think that they are doing this on their own terms. This is hard, I am having trouble with getting the kids to want to do the work, they want to slack off and try and cram it all end at the end of the lesson. I am working on strategies to make them want to learn their information and move on to more advanced work. This is working with some in the class but others are just getting by. I want the class to be interesting but sometimes the work just seems to be busy work. I hate busy work! I want everything to have a purpose, I want the students to get something out of the lesson that they can use later in life. I try and tie everything into some real life situation but it seems that everyone want to sit in the couch and do nothing the rest of their life. The class is about 60/40, sixty percent want to learn and be positive and the other forty just wants to sit like a bump on a log. I am not giving up on them, I will just have to be more creative.

Take calculated ricks. That is quite different from being rash.
George S. Patton