Definitions
An inner drive that pushes a person to engage in a behaviour or activity because the action itself is enjoyable and personally satisfying.
What is Intrinsic Motivation?
These type of results are seen when extrinsic motivation is used with students in the classroom.
What are short term results?
Teachers can incorporate community outreach with this educational connection to create a positive intrinsic motivation experience for students.
What is curriculum connections?
Being incentivized with a bonus for a sales target at work is an example of this type of motivation.
What is extrinsic motivation?
By creating rewards or punishments, this type of behaviour will motivate a person's behaviour.
What is Extrinsic Motivation?
This type of learning occurs when students are naturally curious, an example of intrinsic motivation in the classroom.
What is student led inquiry learning?
When parents/guardians work with teachers to brainstorm best solutions for their child's learning, a sense of ___ is created.
What is autonomy?
This type of motivation is demonstrated when a student choses to read a book because the book is interesting and they enjoy reading it.
What is Intrinsic Motivation?
Autonomy, Competence and Relatedness are all highlights of this theory that discusses how people have 3 innate psychological needs that fuels our motivation.
What is Self Determination Theory?
A way that students can be involved in their learning that they set and can be an example of how to encourage intrinsic motivation in the classroom.
What is goal setting?
By not introducing students to the ______ of being a part of a community, students may lack that intrinsic motivation to be more involved.
What is importance?
Volunteering simply because it is rewarding to you, not to fulfill an obligation for work or school commitment, is an example of this factor of intrinsic motivation.
What is cooperation and competition?
This theory suggested that if teachers create lessons that are a perfect balance of a student's prior knowledge and a lesson that builds on this knowledge, student will be intrinsically motivated and in an optimal zone.
What is Vygotsky's Zone of Proximal Development?
Two ways teachers can spark student's intrinsic motivation in the classroom (please include both ways in your answer).
What is build rapport and create a safe environment?
As a teacher, by listening to concerns presented by parents/guardians and students and showing you understand them, this way of thinking can provide community inspired intrinsic motivation to the student's life.
What is validation?
Group work is an example of this type of spark that that teachers can use when intrinsically motivating their students in their classrooms.
What is encouraging collaboration?
Intrinsic motivation can be promoted by these factors that increase the likelihood of completing an activity or task. (Please included at least 3)
What is challenge, control, cooperation and competition, curiosity and recognition?
Two of the four ways to encourage intrinsic motivation in our schools (Please include at least 2 in your answer).
What is student choice, student's goal setting, incorporation of students in the learning experience and challenging students to find new solutions to old problems?
Beside students, these four community members each make an impact on intrinsic motivation in the community. (Please include all members in your answer).
What are parents/guardians, teachers, administrators and volunteers?
Students that come to school everyday because they love to learn are demonstrating an example of this type of intrinsic motivation.
What is enjoying the learning process?