[drama_mama30]

What fun things does your school do to motivate students to do well on state tests? I am in charge of a group of students who have been assigned the task to plan school-wide motivational ideas for the upcoming tests. We need ideas to steal!

TIA!

[tresie]

Last year we had the mayor come to school and speak to the students. He brought several high school cheer-leaders with him and they performed cheers they had written just for test time.

[hazeleyesinnc]

In my elementary school we always had a pep rally that last about an hour and a half to 2 hours. Students watch a motivational movie to kick start them to positive. This is usually done the day that we do the survey questions and check to see that forms have been "slugged" correctly- county marks certain items on the answer sheets. Teachers perform and the each grade level- in my case 4th and 5th learned a cheer and we have a cheer off...they get to scream as loud as they can....its deafening. One of the High Schools sends their cheerleaders to perform for us as well. We also have a motivational speaker- Ms. NC, one of the Harlem Globe Trotters that lives in our area....etc. Its actually a great day with little for teachers to do....

[teachjam]

My favorite was when the teachers did a take on American Idol.
We called it "Brookwood Idol' for our school. We had teacher contestants who did stuff you "shouldn't do on tests" like not come on time, not eat breakfast, not listen, etc.
Then we had teachers who did it right! The kids went wild. Then daily we had a mult.choice question each class answered and returned to the counselor.

Next fav, was "Mission Impossible" changed to Mission Possible. Teachers and some older students dressed in shades and trenchcoats and challenged the school to answer the mission to answer the questions daily. It was a blast, complete with mission imp. music.
Daily our TV studio would post a question during this music theme and we would answer the mult. choice MISSION question. It was awesome!
It really got our kids psyched for the tests.

[tntgirl]

Wow. I can't wait to borrow that idea for next year. I like how you change the theme year to year. You have a creative and dedicated staff.