• Take Small Steps - Youth need adults to help them set realistic goals and identify small steps toward achievement.
• Find Their Niche - Adults can help youth find their niche.
• Help Them to Take Charge - Adults must know where they are, and where they want to go, on the adult-child responsibility continuum.
• Teach Them to Try and Try Again - Youth need adults to teach them how to persist and learn when they lose.
• Other motivations issues you might encounter - Based on feedback from OSU students’ work with youth, several miscellaneous motivation issues are discussed.

You can view these lessons in any order.

It is important to note that though there may be responses on your part that lead to ineffective interactions and diminish the experience for both you and the student, there is no best way to interact. Your response in a given situation will undoubtedly be different from someone else’s, but it is important to view a variety of potential responses so that you can have a broader “toolbox” of responses at your disposal when you come across various situations. Therefore, when you read the situations and view the video clips, consider them suggestions for appropriate responses rather than the one-and-only answer.

Finally, be aware that when working with youth, you are the adult! In this module, “student” refers to the child with whom you are working. This means that the students will be looking to you for guidance, feedback, validation, attention, and more.