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Lecture 4 Teacher Roles in Motivating Learners

The document discusses the crucial role of teachers in motivating learners, emphasizing the importance of energizing behavior, enhancing engagement, and fostering self-directed learning. It categorizes motivation into intrinsic and extrinsic types, providing strategies for capturing student interest, highlighting relevance, and maintaining expectations for success. Additionally, it outlines the significance of planning for motivation in lessons and offers methods for providing feedback and rewards to encourage student achievement.

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Lecture 4 Teacher Roles in Motivating Learners

The document discusses the crucial role of teachers in motivating learners, emphasizing the importance of energizing behavior, enhancing engagement, and fostering self-directed learning. It categorizes motivation into intrinsic and extrinsic types, providing strategies for capturing student interest, highlighting relevance, and maintaining expectations for success. Additionally, it outlines the significance of planning for motivation in lessons and offers methods for providing feedback and rewards to encourage student achievement.

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TEACHER ROLES IN MOTIVATING LEARNERS

• Energizing behavior and direction of behavior


• Students show interest/ enthusiasm hence attention and
concentration to learning tasks
• Lack of motivation leads to student apathy and misbehavior
• Related to self concept in Maslow hierarchy of needs
• self-esteem – confidence, independence, positive self-concept
• Esteem from others;-recognition, status, appreciation
• Self actualization – realizing one’s ful potential and becoming best
version of oneself
Aims of motivation
• Ensure commitment of all students to the school mission
• Enhance engagement and focus
• Increase persistence
• Promote self directed learning
• Boost achievement
• Foster positive learning attitude – life long learning
• Develop confidence and efficacy encourage goal setting – personal
and academic
Categories of motivation
• Intrinsic- motivation is a response to needs within the student such as
curiosity , feelings of competence and growth e.g love for problem
solving, writing projects, enjoyment in group discussions, mastery of
content, setting personal goals, use social media to
• Extrinsic- from outside the learner. E.g words of praise, higher grade,
privileges e.g field trip, certificates, avoiding punishment ,
scholarships
• Excessive rewards may undermine intrinsic motivation and foster
teacher dependence
Strategies for motivating students
1. Capture student interest
• Capitalize on arousal value of suspense , discovery, curiosity
• Try to make the study of subject matter as active , investigative, social
as possible
• Use questions and activities to capture student interest in the subject
matter.
• Use games, simulations, or other fun features.
2. Highlight relevance of the subject matter
Select meaningful learning objectives
Call attention to the usefulness of the subject matter
3. Help students maintain expectations for success
Have students set short-term goals
Help students assess their progress toward their goals.
Allow students a degree of control over their learning.
Draw attention to the successes students have achieved.
• 4. Design the Lesson to Maintain Interest and Promote Student Success
• State learning objectives and expectations, and provide advance
organizers.
• Vary instructional approaches and present the subject matter in
interesting, novel ways.
• Plan active student involvement.
• Select stimulating, appropriate tasks.
• Occasionally do the unexpected.
• Use familiar material for initial examples, but provide unique and
unexpected contexts when applying concepts and principles.
• Design activities that lead to student success.
• Provide an appropriate level of challenge and support.
• Minimize performance anxiety
5. Provide Feedback and Rewards for Performance.
Provide frequent opportunities for students to respond and to
receive feedback about their academic work.
Offer rewards as incentives.
Give some rewards early in the learning experiences.
Help students attribute achievement to effort.
Help students recognise that knowledge and skill development are
incremental.
Provide remedial socialization for discouraged students.
Motivation when planning a lesson
• As plan a lesson also plan for motivation
• When beginning a lesson consider;
• Attitudes and needs
• Share something of value with them, treat them with warmth and
acceptance. Talk positively about the subject/ positively confront
misconceptions.
• ensure students basic needs are catered for / sitting for long time
• During a lesson
• Two motivational factors ; Stimulation and affect
• Stimulation deals with attention and involvement during learning
• Affect-emotional experience of the student while learning
• Use movement, voice variation, body language,
• Use humor, examples and analogies
• Introduce contrasting information etc.
• To promote positive emotional experience;
• Build trust and relationship
• Encourage growth mindset/ praise effort
• Promote respect and inclusion
• Story telling/ real world examples
• Invoke curiosity
Ending a lesson
• Consider competence and reinforcement
• Competence –degree of progress
• Provide feedback on mastery of learning , offer constructive criticism
• Reinforcement deals with feedback on their progress.
• Gold star, prizes, trinkets, certificates
• Student self evaluation based on the learning objectives
quiz
•. Differentiate between aims and objectives as
used in the teaching of physics. 5 marks
• Q2. Describe the major categories of the
following affective and Psychomotor Domains.
15 marks.
•Q3. Criticize any five strategies for motivating
students to learn physics. 10 mark

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