Module 6
Motivating Learners to Learn and Learners' Diversity
Objective:
Learners will identify forces and factors that influence learners’ learning and how to maximise learners’ learning
Contents:
Learners will identify forces and factors that influence learners’ learning and how to maximise learners’ learning
Contents:
- Several major theories of motivation.
- Strategies to help learners overcome learned helplessness
- The role of teacher expectations and their relation to learner achievement.
- Strategies that teachers can use to reward performance, effort and improvement.
- What teachers can do to increase learners’ motivation to learn?
- Impact of culture on teaching and learning.
- Relationship between socioeconomic status and learner development.
- How ethnicity and race affect school experiences.
- How gender and gender bias affect learners' school experiences.
- How learners differ in intelligence and learning styles.
- The implications regarding school, family, and community partnerships.
- Six types of involvement activities representative of a comprehensive school/family partnership
Prescribed Readings
chapter_8_motivation_classroom.pdf | |
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testing_motivation_and_learning.pdf | |
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