AND HOW DO YOU MOTIVATE YOUR STUDENTS?

What motivates You?

Motivation

Most people do things because they are motivated to do them

Two kinds of motivation Extrinsic Intrinsic

Extrinsic motivation

Doing something for an external reward Usually material Money Points Grades Treats

Intrinsic Motivation

Doing something for internal reasons Satisfaction “because it’s the right thing to do” “desire to learn”

Which kind is “better”?

Better means? Longer-lasting, more reliable

Intrinsic does not depend on material goods Cheaper, portable

Extrinsic The reward becomes the goal, not the action Without the reward nothing gets done Rewards become Less effective with time

What motivates students?

To do their classwork

What motivates YOU in YOUR classes?

Classwork motivators that aren’t so great

because I have to take this classBecause my parents are paying for collegeTo improve my GPABecause this will be on the test

Some motivators that are better

Because programming is usefulBecause I will learn how to solve problemsBecause I can be creativeBecause I’ll know more than the other guys

Teachers always looking for motivators

Making lessons that are meaningful to the students Familiar Relatable to the students’ lives

Encourage questions and explorationTry to avoid using “the test” as a club or as

the goalFailure is GOOD

Failure is good!

"Would you like me to give you a formula for... success? It's quite simple, really. Double your rate of failure. You're thinking of failure as the enemy of success. But it isn't at all... you can be discouraged by failure / or you can learn from it. So go ahead and make mistakes. Make all you can. Because, remember that's where you'll find success. On the far side..

Thomas J. Watson quotes (American Entrepreneur and Founder of IBM , 1874-1956)

Dr. Marvin Marshall has a system

“Discipline without Stress, Punishment or Rewards” Behaviors can be described as different Levels Encourage students to realize they have a choice of

how they behave every day Some levels are not acceptable and the teacher has to

use authority Some levels are very acceptable and encouraged

Dr. Marvin Marshall

Level A – Anarchy – student does anything but what they were asked to do

Level B – Bully – disruption – student also distracts other students so they don’t work either

These two require intervention by the teacher

Marvin Marshall

Level C – Cooperation – the student does the work, as long as someone is watching, to get attention or to show off

Level D – Self motivated – student works because they want to improve, they want to master the material

C and D are encouraged, D more than C

Ask the students

“What level was that behavior?”“Which level leads to the most, best

learning?”“Give me some examples of behavior that is

Level A, Level B, Level C, Level D”Ask them to think about their behavior in the

last few minutes, how would they classify it?

Great results?

Many people have stated they got great results from students in groups and individually with this system

www.marvinmarshall.comhttp://www.youtube.com/user/MarvMarshallhttp://www.marvinmarshall.com/files/pdf/Phi_

Delta_Kappan.pdf (11 pages)