Students Academic and Social Choices

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Students Academic and Social Choices
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A Basic Choice Cooperation or Resistance

• When have you chosen active or passive resistance
  to authority?
• Why did you do that?

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Motivation to Engage in an Activity

• Motivation
• Expectancy (feelings about how likely you are to
  succeed)
• Times
• Value (feelings about how succeeding would
  satisfy some need or desire)

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Walter Doyle on Expectancy

• Risk Chances of failure
• Ambiguity Lack of clarity about how to be
  successful

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The Tradeoff between Expectancy and Value

• Reducing risk and ambiguity increases expectancy
  of success
• Most things that we value involve some ambiguity
  and risk

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Peoples Basic Needs

• Safety (physical and emotional)
• Connection or belonging
• Respect, status, independence
• Knowledge (academic goals interest and
  understanding)

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Students Social Choices

• Cooperation (active or passive)
• Resistance (active or passive)
• Attention seeking
• Power seeking
• Revenge seeking
• Avoidance of failure
• An (often subconscious) choice we all make Which
  actions have the best chance (expectancy x value)
  of satisfying my needs?

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Students Academic Choices

• Not-learning (e.g., Kohl), active or passive
  resistance
• Sense-making strategies
• Procedural display
• Narrative reasoning
• Practical reasoning
• Model-based reasoning
• An (often subconscious) choice we all make Which
  actions have the best chance (expectancy x value)
  of satisfying my needs?

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Student Case Study Assignment

• Observing and finding patterns
• Observing and taking notes
• Working with focus student
• Talking with mentor or other adults
• Reading Albert, Kohl, etc.
• Case study report
• Examples and patterns in student actions
• Explanations goals and choices
• Possible actions to change choices
• Results of things you tried (optional)
• Discussion with your mentor (optional)