Have you ever noticed that when learners are motivated, the class runs more smoothly? Have you also noticed when students are not motivated or are uninterested, then teaching is a chore. There are things you can do to help motivate students.
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What I going to share with you comes from Raymond Wlodkowski’s book, Enhancing Adult Motivation to Learn. As Wlodkowski pointed out there is a strong positive correlation between motivation and learning. As instructors, we can create the right conditions and environment to help them learn.
Wlodkowski and Ginsberg developed the Motivational Framework for Culturally Responsive Teaching. Within this framework, Wlodkowski and Ginsberg incorporate four essential elements that will attend to the learning activities that meet four conditions: success, volition, value, and enjoyment. These elements include:
- Establishing inclusion
- Developing attitude
- Enhancing meaning
- Engendering competence
By attending to these four elements, you keep focused on learner motivation.
This episode will take a closer look at factors that affect motivation, characteristics and skills needed as a motivating instructor, and strategies for increasing motivation in the classroom.
Additional Reading
- ITC: 41 – Using Backward Design to Build Better Courses
- ITC: 43 – Using Concept Maps in the Classroom
- ITC: 44 – Andragogy – Treating Learners as Adults
- ITC: 69 – Course Goals, Outcomes, and Objectives: Keys to an Exceptional Course
- ITC: 79 – Increase Learning With Gagné’s 9 Events of Instruction
- ITC: 108 – How You Can Use the Socratic Discussion Method in Your Classroom
- ITC: 110 – What Should a Good Lesson Plan Include?
- How Do We Keep Learners Motivated?
- How Does Age and Culture Affect a Learner’s Motivation?
- What Makes a Motivating Instructor?
- What Motivates Adults to Learn?
- Are You Including Everyone in Your Instruction?
- How Do We Make Learning Interesting?
- How Do We Assess Adult Learners Without Necessarily Testing Them?
- Cross, K. (1991). Adults as learners: Increasing participation and facilitating learning (1st ed.). San Francisco: Jossey-Bass.
- Hiemstra, R., & Sisco, B. (1990). Individualizing instruction: Making learning personal, empowering, and successful (1st ed.). San Francisco, CA: Jossey-Bass.
- Knowles, M. (1980). The modern practice of adult education: From pedagogy to andragogy (Rev. and Updated.). Chicago: Association Press; Follett Pub. Co.
- Wlodkowski, R. (2008). Enhancing adult motivation to learn: A comprehensive guide for teaching all adults (3rd ed.). San Francisco: Jossey-Bass A Wiley Imprint.
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