S3E5 - Motivation and Demotivation

Overview

Teaching: 10 min
Exercises: 10 min

Questions

• How can a trainer motivate their students?

Slides

Learning outcomes

• Know how to provide a motivating learning experience.

Challenge: Motivation

Think about a motivating experience in your life (as a student or as an instructor/teacher) and share it in the GDoc.

Value

• Attainment value
  • Satisfaction that one gains from mastery and accomplishment of a goal or task
• Intrinsic value
  • The satisfaction that one gains simply from doing the task rather than from a particular outcome of the task
  • It is the source of intrinsic motivation
• Instrumental value/extrinsic rewards
  • Praise
  • Public recognition
  • Money
  • Material goods
  • An interesting career
  • A high-status job, etc.) 

Efficacy

• Positive outcomes expectancies for success
• Growth vs fixed mindset
• Efficacy expetancies represent the belief that one is capable of identifying, organising, initiating, and executing a course of action that will bring about a desired outcome (Bandura, 1997).
• Positive outcomes expectancies for success
• Growth vs fixed mindset
• Efficacy expetancies represent the belief that one is capable of identifying, organising, initiating, and executing a course of action that will bring about a desired outcome (Bandura, 1997).
• In order to hold a positive expectancy for success, learners must not only believe that doing the assigned work can earn a passing grade (growth mindset), they must also believe that they are capable of doing the work necessary to earn a passing grade

Environment

• Complex dynamics of the classroom
• The tone of the classroom
• The interpersonal forces at play
• The nature and structure of communication patterns.
• E.g. “The instructor is approachable and several of my classmates seem willing to help me if I run into troubles”. 
• inclusivity

Challenge: What can I do to create a motivating environment?

Think, pair, share
In pairs, think about what you could do to create a motivating environment in your classroom. Share it with us.

Strategies to motivate learners

• Connect the material to students’ interests
• Provide authentic, real-world tasks/example
• Show relevance to students’ current academic lives
• Demonstrate the relevance of higher-level skills to students’ future professional lives
• Identify and reward what you value
• Show your own passion and enthusiasm for the discipline
• Build positive expectations
• Ensure alignment of objectives, assessments, and instructional strategies
• Identify an appropriate level of challenge
• Provide early success opportunities
• Articulate your expectations
• Provide targeted feedback
• Be fair
• Describe effective study strategies
• Give students an opportunity to reflect

Challenge: Demotivation

Think about a demotivating experience in your life (as a student or as an instructor/teacher) and share it to the GDoc.

Demotivating

Do not

• Dive into complex or detailed technical discussions with one or two people
• Pretend to know more than what you do
• Use diminishing language “just”, “simply”, “obviously”, “don’t you know?”
• Hinder autonomy
• Deliver long unidirectional lectures

Key Points

• Value.

• Efficacy.

• Environment.

• Strategies for motivation.

• Errors to avoid.