Motivated Teaching: Harnessing the science of motivation to boost attention and effort in the classroom: 3 (High Impact Teaching)

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With this in mind, it is little surprise that clarity about motivation doesn’t come easily. We can’t just open up some heads and look inside, ‘trial and error’ is insufficient for accurate insight, and introspection alone doesn’t have the raw materials to yield enlightenment. Han, J.; Yin, H. 2016. ‘Teacher motivation: Definition, research development and implications for teachers’. In: Cogent Education, 3(1). The following section discusses intrinsic and extrinsic motivation and other related theories in learning motivation. How do you think these unmotivated behaviors affect students’ individual ability to learn and the classroom environment as a whole? Teachers would be better off thinking about how they can affect the learning environment and play more of a coaching role instead of thinking about what information they are going to impart,” says Shernoff (Suttie, 2012) and suggests the following approach to the cultivation of flow in the classroom:

Suttie, J. (2012, April 16). Can schools help students find flow? Greater Good Magazine. Retrieved from https://greatergood.berkeley.edu/article/item/can_schools_help_students_find_flow Running routines in lessons: 'routines trip out redundant decision costs, reduce the amount of novel information that we have to process, and make the most of our ability to think less about the things we repeatedly do [this is a regular mistake by novice secondary level teachers, who tend to overwhelm pupils with material; primary school teachers understand it much better, by necessity].Raters scored the children in the same group as displaying a considerably lower number of negative emotional episodes over the same period. VVOB. No date. Rwanda – Leaders in teaching: Professional development of secondary school leaders and teachers. Accessed 13 January 2020. For parents, many reasons for wanting to teach involve the convenient scheduling. If you have children, you will be on the same schedule. Teachers need to take care of prep work and lesson planning after the school day ends, but in many cases this can be done from home. 6. Holidays Yet at the same time, as a teacher you are in charge of your own classroom. You’ll be able to make decisions regarding what’s best for your students, and lay out your own lesson plans. Although you’ll need to follow certain standards in your curriculum, you have the opportunity to inject your own personality into your job. 10. You’ll have more than just a job

An effective intervention includes a supportive social context and high-quality interpersonal relationships. Self-determination theory and the ARCS model are widely utilized in the motivation domain for learning discipline. The implementation level of theories such as social cognitive theory and expectancy theory is still in initial stages but can significantly contribute to understanding motivation in learning as well as other aspects of life where motivation is crucial. 1. Intrinsic and extrinsic motivation theoryThe results below show that the intervention produced its intended effect in helping teachers in the experimental group teach in a more autonomy-supportive way and generated positive benefits. UIS (UNESCO Institute for Statistics); TTF (International Task Force on Teachers for Education 2030); GEMR (Global Education Monitoring Report) Team. 2019. World Teachers’ Day 2019: Fact sheet. Paris: UNESCO. The following three interventions represent three success stories in the effort to translate motivation and emotion theory into convenient state-of-the-art intervention programs. Suspended judgment — Deciding to entertain an idea just long enough to see if it might work, even if it is not attractive on the surface. Ikeda, K., Castel, A. D., & Murayama, K. (2015). Mastery-approach goals eliminate retrieval-induced forgetting: The role of achievement goals in memory inhibition. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 41, 687–695.

The right level of challenge, adequate skills, sense of control, curiosity, and fantasy are some key factors that can trigger intrinsic motivation. When combined with willpower and a positive attitude, these elements can help sustain motivation over time.

The mechanics of motivation

Real creativity can only emerge once we have mastered the medium or domain in which we work. An idea or product that deserves the label ‘creative’ arises from the synergy of many sources and not only from the mind of a single person, according to Csíkszentmihályi. Mastery goals and performance goals represent the same overall quantity of motivation, but they are qualitatively distinct types of motivation. Many traditional public schools do not offer much in terms of autonomy nor allow students to learn at their own speed. Bauer, K. N., Orvis, K. A., Ely, K., & Surface, E. A. (2016). Re-examination of motivation in learning contexts: Meta-analytically investigating the role type of motivation plays in the prediction of key training outcomes. Journal of Business and Psychology, 31(1), 33–50.