EDFX173 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Carol Dweck, Motivation, Human Spirit
EDFX173 Lecture Notes Tuesday 27th March 2018
Motivation and Challenging Behaviours
Learning Intentions
- Importance of using motivation to successfully impact student engagement and
learning, including its influence on teacher preparation
Success criteria
- To have an understanding of different teaching strategies to motivate students to
learn, including students with challenging behaviour
Motivation – some questions – WHY?
- What choices to people make bout their behaviour around their learning
- How long does it take to get started?
- What is the intensity or level of involvement given to the activity?
- Why do some persist and others give up?
- What is an individual thinking or feeling while engaging in an activity?
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Motivation – basics
- Motivation is usually defined as an internal state that arouses, directs and maintains
behaviour
- It involves students energy and drive to learn, to work effectively and to achieve to
their potential
- Aadei ahieeet is ot just aout soeoes skill or intelligence – motivation
is part of what creates the outcomes
o Can we give students other opportunities to succeed in order to motivate
them?
- Maslos paid iplies that people ill ot e otiated uless the asi eeds
are fulfilled
- Eik Eiksos theory says that motivation is different in different stages of life
- Both theories are needed to understand motivation
Gradual Release of Responsibility Instructional Framework
- Regardless of the theoretical orientation, all would agree, that learning requires
interaction: it is an action oriented experience and not a passive one
o Development of own internal motivation, for them to be excited about their
own learning
o Taking responsibility
o Level of teacher support is high in beginning. Level of learner control is high
in the end
Self Determination Continuum
- Non self-determined to self-determined scale
Motivation – some basics
- Amotivation = complete lack of any intent to act – no engagement at all
o These people do not act at all, or act without intent – just going through the
motions
o Results from not valuing and activity, not feeling competent or not expecting
to yield a desired outcome
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- Intrinsic motivation = natural tendency to seek out and conquer challenges as we
pursue personal interests and exercise capabilities. Think so-alled flo atiities –
art, music, surfing, jogging, sports etc.
- Intrinsic motivators include fascination with the subject, a sense of its relevance to
life and the world, a sense of accomplishment in mastering it, and a sense of calling
to it.
o Pusue thigs eause ee good at it ad e at to
- Students who are intrinsically motivated might say things like the following:
o Literature interests me
o Learning maths enables me to think clearly
o I feel good when I succeed in class
Intrinsic Motivation
- Advantages
o Long lasting and self sustaining
o Efforts to build this kind of motivation are also typically efforts at promoting
student learning.
o Such efforts often focus on the subject rather than the rewards or
punishments.
- Disadvantages
o Can be slow to affect behaviour and can require special and lengthy
preparation
o Students are individuals, so a variety of approaches may be needed to
motivate different students.
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Motivation – Extrinsic
- Not really interested in the activity, we care about what it will gain us, earn us a
good grade, avoid punishment, please the teacher
- Extrinsic motivators
o Include parental expectations, expectations of other trusted role models,
earning potential of a course of study, and grades (which keep scholarships
coming)
- Students who are extrinsically motivated might say things like the following
o I need a B in statistics to get into business school
o If I flunk chemistry, I will lose my scholarship
o Ou istuto ill ig us douts if I do ell i todas uiz
- Advantages
o More readily produce behaviour changes and typically involve relatively little
effort or preparation.
o Also, efforts at applying extrinsic motivators often do not require extensive
knowledge or individual students
- Disadvantages
o Can often distract students form learning the subject at hand.
o It can be challenging to devise appropriate rewards and punishments for
student behaviours.
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Document Summary
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