Tuesday, September 10, 2013
Blog 3
I feel like the most used motivational strategy used in classrooms are to get a good grade. I think this is a good way to motivate students to do well. But, you have to consider whether or not students are motivated to make good grades. There are students that do not care if they make good grades or not. Therefore, this motivational strategy may not work for everyone. This, also, become a extrinsic motivation for the students. As a teacher I would rather my students be intrinsically motivated. There are ways you can get your students to be intrinsically motivated even though they may not be all on board for the subject. For example, even though students may not like to write- if you allow them to choose their topic, they may be more intrinsically motivated to write. Another example you could use in science, is to let them choose the topic or choose something you know the majority of the class will be interested in and become engaged. Some tips that I found in the book that really stood out to me are:
- provide opportunities for independent and decision making work
- present rules in an informal rather than controlling way
-let students make choices
-evaluate students performance in a non controlling way
- be selective about when and how you use extrinsic reinforces
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I like your idea on giving students the ability to make choices in their learning process! In my own experiences, I have observed how children quickly become more engaged and interested when it is their choice, rather than them having to just do what a teacher tells them to. Your example to let children chose their own topic to write about is a strategy I hope to use in my classroom; I feel that children will be more motivated to freely express themselves and focus on their writing skills than perhaps always being assigned to write about a topic that is of no interest to them.
ReplyDeleteWe both had the same points in our blogs about how it is important for the students to be self determined and intrinsically motivated. In response to the comment above, I think that children perform at a higher level when they are given the freedom. The writing example was great. Getting to write about what I wanted to talk about was always my favorite time in English class in elementary and middle school. I also used a lot more detail and put effort into it because I was interested in it.
ReplyDeleteI'd like to see a little more here. You have such good questions and thoughts on your Tickets out the Door, the blog is a place you can really expand on them. Connect concepts from the book with your personal experiences.
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