Our discussion about motivation has been really intriguing to me. In all of the education classes I have taken so far, we have not addressed with issue of motivation other than "it is the teacher's job to make-even the most boring task or lesson-very exciting for the child. While I agree with this, I do think there is a better way to motivate students other than the tone of my voice or how loud I talk about an activity.
So I was a bit interested when we started to discuss this in class to say the least. The strategies that hit home with me were: flexibility, goal theory, providing a big picture, meaning (the WHY of what we're doing), and competition. I think that each of these fall into the 'intrinsic' or 'extrinsic' area of motivation. I believe that you would probably need a good blend of both because no two students learn and are motivated the same way.
I think that many of these ways can enhance the motivation of my students (if I were to have a classroom). I think that competitions are always a good option-although that could be the athlete in me-because I feel that every child can relate to that whether it's during recess, video games, or their own ball games. For other children, the ability to have the "power to choose" what they do goes a really long way. The feel that they decided to do something they wanted to do, even though we are all getting to the "same place" at the end of the day. I think this gives them room for creativity also. I could get into all of these individually, but these few were the ones that I have used before in a school setting and I have found to work.
I leave you with this youtube video about Motivating defiant and disruptive students to learn.. I found it to be pretty interesting! Thoughts?
-S
No comments:
Post a Comment