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Chapter Nine: Creating Motivation - Coggle Diagram
Chapter Nine: Creating Motivation
Key Words
diligence
incentives
incentive systems
formal and informal incentives
simple and complex incentives
incentive system design
proactive incentive
bribery
mastery
proactive
preferred activities
art projects
music projects
learning projects
interest centers and computer centers
learning games
reading and writing for pleasure
helping the teachers
extra work
motivation
Providing Incentives
Gives students a reason to do their work
Formal incentives can be thought of as an exchange of good and services
Informal incentive examples are love, care, approval, and/or emotional connections, among others
Can be thought of exchanging and act for an emotion
Traditional incentive example: "Finish your work and you may draw at your seat."
A problem with this is that the same few students always finish while the rest work
When coming up with incentives, it is important to avoid bribery
Incentives are used everyday in our lives. They are pretty much unavoidable
Preferred Activies
These activities must be cheap and easy
The teacher needs to be able to instruct the students to do this activity without stopping what he or she is doing in order to get them started
These kinds of activities are great incentives for students to get their work done
The best kind of preferred activities are educational as well as fun
When preferred activities are placed throughout your day can be up to your discretion.
There are a lot of things within the classroom that we cannot control
Student's home lives greatly impact their school lives.
As teachers, we need to make learning as engaging as possible in order to help counteract the negative things in a student's life that we are unable to control