The objecitive is to improve the socio-emotional climate in the classroom, fight distractions and boredom in classes by striving for lessons of interest, quality and engagement by creating: Manual of Good practices for teachers; Training for teachers on how to increase students’ motivation, focus and on-task time. Providing pilot trainings to test chosen practices. Mobile friendly teacher online toolbox with constant support everywhere and anytime the teacher needs it.
Loss of instructional time due to off-task behaviour is a well-established problem in educational settings, recognized both by researchers for over a hundred years. Teachers have a big challenge to fight students’ off-task in the classroom. Despite the teachers’ multifunctional skills and knowledge, many of them lack abilities to motivate students and still use old-fashioned methods of teaching. They have a fear of changes in teaching and those who are willing to do some innovations in the class usually have difficulties in finding information sources with good practices. Needs: Teachers don’t perceive student’s boredom and have a hard time engaging students: boredom is one of the most frequently experienced negative emotions among students. Bored and distracted students cannot reach their cognitive potential, especially during classroom instruction. Students can’t concentrate in the classrooms: Research shows that students find it difficult to concentrate in the classrooms because they don’t understand the instructions; they don’t know why they are doing the activity; the activity is boring; the activity is too easy or difficult; they are tired; teachers can’t get their attention