Motivating Students

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• Motivating Students
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• Goal Setting

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Motivation Killers

• Treating adult learners like kids
• Discussing students Grade Equivalent TABE scores
  instead of Scale Scores
• Giving students inappropriate assignments
• Using only one type of teaching style in your
  classroom

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Motivation

• Intrinsic Motivation this type of motivation is
  characterized by an individual performing tasks
  because they want to, due to interest or
  satisfaction.
• Extrinsic Motivation this refers to individuals
  performing tasks because of a desired outcome.

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Motivation Components

• Expectancy Value
• Goals Relevance
• Beliefs Confidence
• Self-Efficacy Competence
• Autonomy Self-Determination
• Commitment Necessary Effort
• Capability Mood/Emotion
• Fun Flow
• Satisfaction Attention

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Instructor Role in Motivation

• Hook em (Engage emotions through relevance).
• Determine and communicate what is essential
  (learning outcomes).
• Enhance student goal-orientation by communicating
  the task.
• Support the learning process.
• Provide meaningful/attainable goals.

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What is good teaching?

• Passion
• Motivating students
• Being relevant
• Teaching students how to learn
• A certain style-working the room and every
  student in it
• A sense of humor
• Going where the learning is

• Listening, questioning, being responsive
• Pushing students to excel
• Caring and nurturing minds and talent
• Being flexible
• Remembering that each student is different
• Treating students as consumers of knowledge

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My Best Teachers Ever

• Did not teach me what to think but taught me how
  to think
• Helped me make connections between academics and
  my own life
• Encouraged students to disagree with them
• Engaged students in the learning process

• Asked questions that helped me learn to think
  like a psychologist
• Taught students the importance of evidence, how
  to collect it, and how to use it to make
  decisions
• Incorporated other disciplines into their
  classrooms
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  (Light, 2001)

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Motivating Students to Become Independent Learners

• The primary role of instructors is to motivate
  students, to engage them in the learning process
• Motivational Strategies
• Focus on student strengths
• Application to students lives
• Stories, examples, illustrations, etc.
• Connecting to students on a personal level
• Involving students in the material

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Goal-Setting
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Successful individuals set goals that are
specific, yet flexible so that they can be
changed to adjust to specific circumstances and
situations.
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Successful people appear to have goals that are
realistic and attainable.
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Fords Motivational SystemsTheory
Personal Goals
Motivation
Emotions
Skills
Effective Functioning
Personal Beliefs
Supportive Environment
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Secrets to Success

• Love what you teach and who you teach
• Focus on creating an intellectually vital,
  engaging classroom
• Be organized
• Communicate your expectations clearly
• Know your students and how they learn
• Be flexible
• Ask other instructors for help
• Collaborate on researchdont work alone!
• (Information collected from several Power Point
  presentations on Motivation and Goal-Setting)

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Specific Goal(s)
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NRS Goals (G1-G8)
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