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Theories of Motivation

by Asya

Dec 5, 2011

A few questions for any teacher about views on motivation:

1. What do you believe is the most important for the motivation of the student's you teach? What do you capitalize on these motivators? How much of the responsibility for student motivation is yours? How much is there's ?

2.How important do you think it is to praise students? How much praise do you use? Why ? Do you use any other kinds of rewards to motivate your students to study? Can you give me some specific examples?

3. How important do you think it is for you to try to and help students develop their self-concepts/What do you do to help students develop their self concepts? Can you give me a specific example?

4.How important do you think it is for students to believe that teachers care about them as people ? Is this part of your job? Why or why not ?

5. What do you capitalize on students curiosity ? Can you give me specific examples? What can teachers do to make students fe...See More

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Sara On 12/05/11, Asya wrote: > A few questions for any teacher about views on motivation: > > 1. What do you believe is the most important for the > motivation of the students you teach?

A real chance of success - trusting in the teacher.

What do you > capitalize on these motivators? How much of the > responsibility...See More

Dec 6, 2011

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marjoryt 1. What do you believe is the most important for the > motivation of the student's you teach? What do you > capitalize on these motivators? How much of the > responsibility for student motivation is yours? How much is > there's ? 1) Future usefulness of the content (teacher's responsibility to make that connection) > > 2.How impor...See More1. What do you believe is the most important for the > motivation of the student's you teach? What do you > capitalize on these motivators? How much of the > responsibility for student motivation is yours? How much is > there's ? 1) Future usefulness of the content (teacher's responsibility to make that connection) > > 2.How important do you think it is to praise students? How > much praise do you use? Why ? Do you use any other kinds of > rewards to motivate your students to study? Can you give me > some specific examples? SPED and athletics teachers do the very best in student motivation - when I realized that they actually praise ONLY when the student is successful (even for a small improvement) and that the praise is simple but true and immediate, I understood to do that too. Often I just say, "Good comment" or "Good student." > > 3. How important do you think it is for you to try to and > help students develop their self-concepts/What do you do to > help students develop their self concepts? Can you give me > a specific example? This links directly to Plato's "Allegory of the Cave" - we learn for a purpose and must understand that learning is a process - what we understand at first will be subject to vast change. > > 4.How important do you think it is for students to believe > that teachers care about them as people ? Is this part of > your job? Why or why not ? I don't like the term "care" implies a non-professional relationship. I want my students to respect me as the professional who will help them conquer the course content plus whatever else needed to make them successful. To that end, I want to know any problem keeping them from content mastery. I don't want to particularly know their family stories. Then again, I teach college and don't normally need that environment. I'm not rude if a student shares, but instead try to pull the focus back on the work. > > 5. What do you capitalize on students curiosity ? Can you > give me specific examples? What can teachers do to make > students feel responsible for their learning? What do you > do? How well does it work? I like to give examples of failures and successes, and then ask the students to find the reasoning why something fails, and others don't. Personally, I don't think we give students enough examples before they must do the work, and we certainly don't give them enough practice opportunities. > > What do you do to make students feel that their learning is > more important or worthwhile? Can you give me some specific > examples? I show them examples from the "real world" or the internet. I discuss my own experiences as a technical writer. I ask them for situations from their own life. > > How important do you think it is to challenge your > students? Do they feel better about what they've learned > when it has been challenging? Can you give specific > examples to illustrate your point ? Well, sometimes the content they will recognize and even have done. We have to be honest - and tell them that. Sometimes we have to explain that content is foundational - not too useful by itself, but instead will lead into larger activities. Whatever the task, I ask my students to experience the "experimentation" of learning - to not fear and to be open for the work. I ask them to be brave, that I'm not going to fail them for initial mistakes and give them opportunity to develop the basis for good learning.

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