Class 10, Chapter 10: Motivating Students to Learn

Chapter 9 Essential Questions:

• What are some theories of motivation?
• What factors affect students' motivation?
• How can teachers increase students' motivation to learn?

Goal(s):

• For graduate candidates to gain an understanding how the essentials questions will assist in the development of the Education Theory Matrix and Theory Based School Improvement Plan.

Objective(s):

• Upon viewing related videos, topical dialogue, reading of chapter content related to student motivation theory graduate candidates will seek out scholarly research which will enhance their professional experience as a school leader.

Warm-Up Activity: Think-Pair-N-Share

• What is motivation?
• How do you motivate your students?

Student Activity 1: With a partner 

• Read about Cal Lewis's tenth-grade U.S. history class found on page 247 of course text.
• Using your experience complete the critical thinking and cooperative learning activity found at the end of this reading selection. 
• Share you comments with your peers upon completion of the activities. 

Motivation Theories: The following are videos related to motivation theory. 

1. Motivation and Human Need
2. Motivation and Attribution Theory (pause the video to apply the Attribution Example Activities Activitie) 
3. Motivation and Mindset
4. Motivation and Self-Regulated Learning
5. Motivation and Expectancy Theory

Student Activity 3: Factors Affecting Students' Motivation - In groups of twos record how you assist students in each of the areas below:

1. Motivation and goal orientations
2. Learned helplessness
3. Teacher expectations and achievement
4. Anxiety and achievement

Upon completion of you and your partners recorded discussions view pages 255-259 and compare.

Student Activity 4: How can teachers increase students' motivation to learn in your schools? Overview the links below by reading the abstracts.  Based on the abstracts determine if this is a literary piece which would interest you related to school improvement. Describe reasons why you have made this selection for your school.

1. Enhancing intrinsic motivation: The Role of Motivators in Improving Knowledge-Sharing among Academics
2. Principles for providing extrinsic incentives to learn: Cooperative Learning, Responsibility, Ambiguity, Controversy and Support in Motivating Students
3. Using praise effectively: Increasing the Teacher Rate of Behaviour Specific Praise and its Effect on a Child with Aggressive Behaviour Problems
4. Teaching students to praise themselves: Praise and Feedback in the Primary Classroom: Teachers' and Students' Perspectives

As noted some of these studies maybe dated. For your assignment for this weeks lesson you may seek out more topically related scholarly works for your annotated bibliographies.

Closure:

• What are some theories of motivation?
• What factors affect students' motivation
• How can teachers increase students' motivation to learn?

Assignment:

• Read Chapter 10 paying particular attention to motivation theory as related to what you see or believe in our youth today. Also based on the the essential questions and the activities of this class write 2 annotated bibliographies covering:
1. Theory of Motivation
2. Related factors that affect students' motivation?
• For your Educational Terrain you will want to seek out relations which support the essential question: How can teachers increase students' motivation to learn?