April 18, 2011

How to Motivate Adult Learners

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Hopping on a bus and going to a museum.

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QuestionA: What is a Jigsaw?

Students work in small groups to develop

knowledge and formulate ways of teaching it – experts

then move to new groups

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A: What is Split-Room Debate?

Students are invited to sit on one side of the room or the other corresponding to their

position on a controversy related to a key course issue

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A: What is Stations?

It engages students by requiring them to move around the room and while learning materials – examine, question exchange

ideas with peers.

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A: What is Think Again?

In this set, the teacher presents a common

misconception in the discipline and then takes a poll for students agree or

not agree.

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A: What is Extrinsic Reward?

Motivation rewards not obtained from the activity but by the consequence.

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A: Who is Intrinsic Satisfaction?

Refers to rewards by the active itself.

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A: What is Success in the Task?

Our motivation and results are put in a spiral effect to improve

according to Littlejohn.

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A: What is the Strategies of Motivation?

Give frequent positive feedback and create an open positive

atmosphere.

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A: What is Techniques to Motivate?

Provide high expectations so learners may be motivated and

be enthusiastic in the classroom.

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A: What is Expectancy-Value Theory?

If the value associated with the job is huge the motivation

increases and vice versa.

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A: What is Two Factor Theory or Herzberg’s Motivation?

Fundamental factors like job security, workplace environment

and recognition and self-satisfaction play a role in this

theory.

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A: What is the Self-determination Theory?

SDT speaks about natural tendencies to behave in an

effective manner.

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A: What is Goal Setting Theory?

This theory was produced by Edwin Locke in 1961.

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A: What are Intrinsic and Intrinsic Factors?

Theories rest on two strong pillars in factors of

motivation .

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A: What is Teachers Expectations?

If you act as though you expect your students to be

motivated, hardworking and interested they are likely to

be so.

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A: What is Students Opinion?

They would say instructor’s enthusiasm, relevance of the material and organization of

the course.

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A: Why is using grades a threat to motivate students?

McKeachie points out “that some students may be led to academic dishonesty, excuses

for late work or counterproductive behavior.”

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A: What is Provincial Instructor Diploma Program?

PIDP caters to the instructional training requirements of adult

learners – self directional in nature and promoting active

learning.

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A: Who is Clark Hull ?

His theory was based on homeostasis – creating a state of

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A: What are Neurons?

Short-term memory for adult learners is transient

and will ultimately be eliminated if they aren’t used (Barkley, 2010).

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A: What is Synthesized?

For the information to be synthesized into long-term

memory, it needs to be repeated for the learner.

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A: What is 24 hours?

Transition from short term to long term memory, is

determined by time and is lost in certain amount of time.

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A: What is adult learning?

This works well in adults, who have already developed the

capability to retain information and can add new information to

existing networks..

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A: Who is the Cooperative Learning?

Bonwell and Eison (1991) suggested learners work in pairs, discuss

materials while role-playing, debate, engage in case study, take part in a

type of learning.

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A: What is Active Learning?

An umbrella term that refers to several models of instruction that focus the responsibility of learning

on learners .

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A: Who is Charles C Bonwall and James A Elison writers Active Learning?

Popularzing theat defining strategies and promoting

active learning as instructional strategies for regular use in the

classroom.

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A: What is Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs?

Which theorizes that students will only engage with learning once other,

more basic needs have been met.

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A: Who is Barkley?

“When new information is presented the mind processes it through either assimilation

or accommodation.”

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A: What is a Schemata?

Cognitive psychologists theorize a network or map that includes what we know on a

subject and integrate new information easily.

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