Increasing student motivation by choosing smart strategies | Virginia Commonwealth University Training and Technical Assistance Center Newsletter Motivation. A word frequently used in the field of education. Parents and teachers often report, “He/she lacks motivation.” For a term so commonly used, what exactly does it mean? Why is student motivation so important and what can you do to increase it? What strategies would you use to motivate these students? According to Princeton University’s (2010) dictionary, motivation is “the psychological feature that arouses an organism to action toward a desired goal,” (para. 1). Why should motivation matter to you as a teacher? You want students to be engaged in learning, yet the National Research Council and the Institute of Medicine (2004) found that upwards of 40 percent of high school students reported being disengaged from learning, inattentive and bored with school. What does motivation look like in the classroom? Our level of motivation is highly influenced by the environment (Mitchell and Daniels, 2003). Figure 1 Four Dimensions of Motivation Usher, A., and Kober, N. (2012). Competence
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Teachers TV - Schools Skip to main content GOV.UK uses cookies to make the site simpler. Find out more about cookies Is this page useful? Yes this page is useful No this page is not useful Is there anything wrong with this page? Thank you for your feedback Close Help us improve GOV.UK Don’t include personal or financial information like your National Insurance number or credit card details. To help us improve GOV.UK, we’d like to know more about your visit today. Don’t have an email address? Mr Parr's science songs Royal Society of Chemistry | Advancing the Chemical Sciences Mindsets online Fears, Rules, Words, Questions « Teaching Science A quick lesson description here; I’ve been far too focused on political stuff recently. I thought I’d blogged this before, but apparently not. (And while I’m reviewing – 120 posts. Yeah, really.) Anyway. It’s the time of year, after summative exams for our KS3 classes, that we teach Reproduction to year 7. Stop giggling at the back there! This is my approach to starting off what can be a challenging topic. Fears “What might make a student nervous about this topic?” Rules I remind the students of the rules we have agreed and followed all year. Words I write ‘F***’ on the board, with asterisks, and explain over the gasps and giggles that we all know which word this is. I then circle the ‘polite’ words and explain that we can consider these as ‘classroom English’. Important: clean the board very thoroughly. :) Questions I give each student a piece of paper and ask them to spread out, as if doing a test. Comments? Like this: Like Loading...