Education World: Wire Side Chats: How Can Teachers Develop Students' Motivation -- and ... - 0 views
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shared by Doris Reeves-Lipscomb on 01 Mar 16
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Teachers should focus on students' efforts and not on their abilities. When students succeed, teachers should praise their efforts or their strategies, not their intelligence. (
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When students fail, teachers should also give feedback about effort or strategies -- what the student did wrong and what he or she could do now.
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(a) valuing learning and challenge and (b) valuing grades but seeing them as merely an index of your current performance, not a sign of your intelligence or worth.
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Work harder, avail yourself of more learning opportunities, learn how to study better, ask the teacher for more help, and so on.
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They are very performance-oriented during a game or match. However, they do not see a negative outcome as reflecting their underlying skills or potential to learn. Moreover, in between games they are very learning-oriented. They review tapes of their past game, trying to learn from their mistakes, they talk to their coaches about how to improve, and they work ceaselessly on new skills.
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Teaching students to value hard work, learning, and challenges; teaching them how to cope with disappointing performance by planning for new strategies and more effort; and providing them with the study skills that will put them more in charge of their own learning.
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We should praise the process (the effort, the strategies, the ideas, what went into the work), not the person.
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By motivation, I mean not only the desire to achieve but also the love of learning, the love of challenge, and the ability to thrive on obstacles.