How to Integrate Learner Motivation Planning into Lesson

Planning: The ARCS Model Approach

John Keller

Overview

• Learners learn better when they are motivated. • Keller suggests that planning for student

motivation should be first and foremost.• A teacher has to know his/her audience to

gauge potential motivational pitfalls.• There is a zen point for motivation, below which

the student is not sufficiently motivated to learn, and above which performance falls as anxiety sets in.

The ARCS Model

• Attention – Get it

• Relevance – Make it so

• Confidence – Build it

• Satisfaction – Internal is best, but grades work too!

The Motivational Curveor

Why I No Longer Care What My Mother-in-Law Thinks Of Me

Comments/Criticisms

• This article puts the onus entirely on the teacher.

• I am not impressed. Keller has attempted to codify basic common-sense teaching skills and has gone way over the top.

• Needs to read 2 N 2 over and over and over and then decided if his students would be better served if they “acted” or were “acted upon”.