10732 week three wi2010-accepting personal responsibility
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Accepting Personal Responsibility/Discovering
Self-Motivation
COM101 Winter 2009
Review
►Journal 4: Victim vs. Creator Language
►Contract for Educational Progress
What would you do with $5295.00?
►20 credits that didn’t go towards my degree
►Week 2: Getting on Course to your Success/Learning College Customs
Importance of Academic Advising
Activity: Popson’s Dilemma
►Popcorn Reading
►Which professor gave the best advice on how to motivate students?
►Assante: Relate to work world
►Buckley: Let them add their own choices
►Chang: Use service learning
►Donnelly: Focus on grades
►Egret: Focus on teamwork
►Fanning: Assign a challenge
►Gonzales: Engage students-active learning
►Harvey: Just do the best you can
Students’ Motivation toward Learning
►What reasons do you have for completing educational tasks?
Mastery: pursue tasks to develop and improve your abilities (because you want to learn)
Performance-approach: pursue tasks because you are concerned about demonstrating your ability (because you want to show that you know)
Performance-avoidance: pursue tasks to hide lack of ability (because you don’t want to look like you don’t know)
Which statement best describes your approach toward learning
(prior to this semester)?
►I want to learn as much as possible in college
►It is important to me to do better than the other students
►I hope I don’t do badly in college
Which statement best describes your approach toward learning
(prior to this semester)?►I want to learn as much as possible in
college (Mastery-goal)
►It is important to me to do better than the other students (Performance-approach goals)
►I hope I don’t do badly in college (Performance-avoidance goals)
Cornell Notetaking Method-James Madison University
CLAW Workshops