Motivation

Motivation

What would a behaviourist say?

What would a cognitivist say?

What would a geneticist say?

What is their motivation?

Why do it?What is their motivation?

The Diamond Choir from South Africa

Why do it?What is their motivation?

Why do it?What is my motivation?

Tap into internal motivation

What motivates you?

Motivation or…Getting the Buggers to Learn

1. Recognise they can be demotivated2. Use external motivators to learning3. Motivating teaching styles4. Recognise the motivating power of peers5. Tap into internal motivators

6. Stroke your students7. Become Theory Y teachers8. Vary ways of teaching

‘If we taught children to speak, they’d never learn’ (William Hull cited in Holt, 1990: preface)

Recognise they can be demotivated

Antz

Recognise they can be demotivated

Walls

‘Either learners play it safe and withdraw, feeling crushed and lacking in self-confidence as a result; or they hit out in retaliation, becoming disruptive. Either way pupils, and their learning, are damaged’.

(Petty, 2004: p.16)

Recognise they are demotivated

John Holt – How Children Fail

Hertzberg’s Hygiene Factors

Recognise they have failedExternal Motivators to Learning

Teaching Styles

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Motivating teaching styles

Stanley Milgram

we do what we’re told

agentic state

1. CoerciveLeadMotivating teaching styles

Glengarry

THE BEATINGS WILL CONTINUE UNTIL MORALE IMPROVES

2. Referent

LeadMotivating teaching styles

3. Legitimate

LeadMotivating teaching styles

4. Expert

LeadMotivating teaching styles

5. Reward Management

LeadMotivating teaching styles

Coercive – motivation =

Referent – motivation =

Legitimate –motivation =

Expert – motivation =

Reward – motivation=

LeadMotivating teaching styles

The Hawthorne Studies

People adjust their own motivation to match those of others, - ‘a social event’.

‘Most children in school are at least afraid of the mockery and contempt of their peer group as they are of their teacher’

(Holt, 1990: p.???)

Recognise the motivating power of peers

Abraham Maslow

hierarchy of needs

Internal Motivation

Tap into internal motivation

Maslow’s TriangleTap into internal motivation

Apply to teaching

McClelland’s Theory suggests that people have three needs:

• Achievement• Power• Affection

personality defines – which one dominates

Become Theory Y teachersTap into internal motivation

• Eric Berne• Strokes = from positive words to full personal

commitment. From great job to ‘I love you’• If people don’t get enough strokes they can get

difficult and annoying. • Negative strokes are better than nothing

Transactional Theory

Stroke your students

‘Studies show that what we as teachers do is overwhelmingly more influential than what we say…A teacher who talks to, smiles at, encourages and helps students of Asian and European origin equally, is teaching the students to respect everyone regardless of their origins. Such inadvertent teaching is sometimes called the ‘hidden curriculum’ (Petty, 2004: p.19)

Stroke your students

Become Theory Y teachers

test

role play

class practical

note taking

demonstration

explanation

discussion

question and answer

watching a video

summarising

investigationPetty, 2004: p.22

Vary ways of teaching

Already knowGet attentionRelevantModelTeamsGoalsVisualsThink and talk aloudMnemonicsNote takingClosure strategies – tell your partner what you know

Adapted from Fulk 2000 cited in Sousa, 2001: 34

Vary ways of teaching