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Title: The Unmotivated Student
Description: This is notes on unmotivated students. How to identify them, what type they are, understanding them, role models, and establishing a sense of belonging.
Description: This is notes on unmotivated students. How to identify them, what type they are, understanding them, role models, and establishing a sense of belonging.
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Introduction
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Now starting as young as elementary school
B
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Persuade students to participate
b
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If students are engaged and motivated their chance of success increases
Identifying the unmotivated student
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Energy into avoiding challenges rather than tackling them
C
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But classroom performance falls below expectations
D
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Satisfied just getting by
Intrinsic vs
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Intrinsic
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Self fulfillment
c
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Achieve mastery of subject
e
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Genuine interest
g
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Performance
i
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Study
1
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Extrinsic
a
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Grade-‐oriented
c
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Understand what we can about the social worlds our students come from
B
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Premotivated
a
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Support and encouragement from parents, teachers, school officials
c
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Associate what they learn with their future
e
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Unmotivated
a
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Message received tells student they are outside the mainstream
c
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Behavior expectations don’t respect her ways
e
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F
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H
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VI
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VIII
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Values of the school may conflict
g
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Neural pathways are built whenever we learn something
b
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Plasticity of our brains enables us to buildknowledge rather than merely record it
d
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Influence how we receive and make meaning of information
b
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Differentiate instruction
b
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Motivation
d
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Feeling welcomed, included,
Make it real/relevant
A
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What can teachers do?
a
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Teaching with current events – in the news
c
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Connect to students culture or social lives
Provide Choice
A
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Declines when student has no voice
B
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Pick lab partner
b
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Determine own grading scale, due dates, assignments
Balance the Challenge
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B
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Or teacher believes student is not capable of doing better work
b
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Undermine self-‐efficacy
d
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Scaffolding – instructional technique where the challenge level is gradually raised as
students are capable of more complex tasks
Seek Role Models
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B
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But there can be many sources of role models
i
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Felloe students
Use Peer Models
A
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Someone the student identifies with
B
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Gender
b
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Social circles
d
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Achievement level
f
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Age
X
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Adopt a Supportive Style
A
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Increased student interest, enjoyment, engagement, and performance
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Need to feel connected or related to other people
B
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Belonging is fostered by an instructor that demonstrates warmth and openness,
encourages student participation, is enthusiastic, friendly, and helpful, organized and
prepared
Strategize with Struggling Student
A
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Outline specific strategies for completing assignment, note-‐taking or reviewing for
an exam
Where they come from
Self-‐determination
Title: The Unmotivated Student
Description: This is notes on unmotivated students. How to identify them, what type they are, understanding them, role models, and establishing a sense of belonging.
Description: This is notes on unmotivated students. How to identify them, what type they are, understanding them, role models, and establishing a sense of belonging.