Key Components to Motivating Students

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Key Components to Motivating Students

• Teacher Characteristic- Caring
• Expectancy times Value Theory
• Self-Efficacy Theory
• Classroom Management
• Preventing School Violence

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Teacher Characteristic- Caring

• Communicate caring
• Build strong student-teacher relationships
• We react positively to warm, inviting people
• RelatednessBelonging

• Meet Maslows Hierarchy of Needs
• Unconditional Positive Regard- feeling of being
  worthy
• Develops Self-Efficacy
• Apathetic Uninterested Students

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Teacher Characteristic- CaringQuotes to
Remember

• We think of our instructors as how human they
  are or how they treat us
• Ignoring the human side of teaching leaves out
  an essential domain
• Students experienced lower intrinsic motivation
  where they felt the teacher was cold and
  uncaring

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Expectancy times Value Theory-expectations to
succeed times value of success

• VALUE
• Intrinsic interest
• How important?
• Utility value- useful for future goals
• Cost- is the activity worth doing

• EXPECTANCY
• Anything times 0 is 0
• Provide students with task in which they can
  succeed
• Build self-schemas
• Beliefs about capabilities

Teachers must help students appreciate the value
of academic activities and make sure they can
achieve success with effort
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Self-Efficacy- Beliefs About Capabilities

• Domain Specific- task or subject
• Based on past performances
• Having good models- teacher characteristic
• Verbal persuasion from teacher
• Physiological factors
• Changes through grades- starts high and gets
  progressively lower
• Set challenging yet attainable goals
• Provide feedback

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Classroom Management

• Develop procedures and routines
• A procedure is a method or process for
  accomplishing things in the classroom(Wong)
• 3-2-1 Method- explain, rehearse, reinforce

• Characteristics of a good classroom manager
• Common sense
• Act quickly
• Fairness
• Courage
• Learn from mistakes
• Withitness
• Observe ALL students
• Good use of space
• Clear, disruption free instruction
• Holds students accountable
• Focus on academic tasks

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School Violence Prevention3 Important Factors

• Recognizing At-Risk Students
• Preventing Behaviors and Escalation
• Available Programs

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Recognizing At-Risk Students

• Socially withdrawn
• Feelings of being alone or rejection
• Victim of violence or bullying
• Low interest level
• History of violence or anger
• Threats
• Drug use
• Gang affiliation

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Preventing Behaviors and Escalation

• Clear rules and procedures
• Interesting lessons
• Use of humor
• Eye contact Proximity
• Reinforce correct behavior
• Praise other students

• Quickly reinforce inappropriate behavior
• Restate appropriate behavior
• Avoid Argument
• Loss of privileges
• Follow through, then let it go

Reacting with urgency in of the utmost importance
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Available Programs

• Counseling Services
• Bullying Prevention
• Peer Mediation
• Anger Management
• Conflict Resolution
• Behavior Management
• Crisis Management Team

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Resources for further information and citations

• Eggon, P. D. Kauchak, D. P. (2006). Educational
  Psychology Windows on Classrooms. Prentice Hall-
  used for all quotes and information in regards to
  teacher characteristic caring, expectancy times
  value, and self-efficacy
• Holt, Reinhart, and Winston. The Well Managed
  Classroom. Retrieved December 15, 2007, from
  http//www.nwrel.org/scpd/sirs/5/cu9.html- used
  for Classroom Management and quote by Harry K
  Wong
• http//www.indiana.edu/safeschl/psv.pdf - used
  for School Violence Prevention