EDT 190 Chapter Notes - Chapter 11: Division Of Property, Cooperative Learning, Motivation
3 Apr 2016
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Extrinsic motivation: motivation to engage behavior to receive some incentive. Intrinsic motivation: motivation to be involved in an activity for one"s own sake. Learning objectives: what a teacher wants to teach their students. Having clear learning objectives is essential because they guide the rest of the decisions teachers make. Locating high quality examples or problems to illustrate the topic. Sequencing the examples to be the most meaningful. High quality examples: representations of content ideally have all the information in them that students need to learn a topic and their importance in promoting learning can"t be overstated. Assessment: process teachers use to gather information and make decisions about the students" learning progress. Instructional alignment: match between learning objectives, learning activities, and is an essential component of effective instruction. Backward design: approach to planning in which the teacher first identifies desired learning objectives, then specific ways to assess whether these objectives were met and finally establishes learning activities to reach the objective.
