“Motivating students to learn cannot be ignored!”

Faculty Development Workshop Purpose and Focus

1. To develop the expertise (knowledge, skills, and dispositions) needed to motivate students to learn course content
2. To explore and create motivational strategies that attract and focus student attention, stimulate their interest, and create a need and readiness for students to learn

Overview

Motivation is the key to learning. It initiates, directs, and sustains what students do and don’t do. Student motivation influences what they learn, the quality of their work, and impacts what they retain.

Top 23 Learning Objectives

By successfully completing this workshop, participants should be able to demonstrate their expertise in motivating students to learn.  This will be evident as participants:

1. Explore and evaluate how numerous motivational strategies increase student learning.
2. Compare and contrast intrinsic to extrinsic motivation.
3. Explain the negative impact extrinsic motivation can have on learning.
4. Formulate ways to maximize intrinsic motivation.
5. Discuss the effects of motivation on learning.
6. Discuss reasons why students lack motivation to learn course subject matter.
7. Explore how student motivation is influenced by learned helplessness, the self-fulfilling prophecy, and scaffolding.
8. Summarize how motivation influences (leads to) learning.
9. Explain why intermittent reinforcement increases students’ motivation to learn.
10. Propose teaching practices to avoid.
11. Explain why autonomy increases student learning.
12. Create student autonomy opportunities that enhance learning.
13. Explain why autonomy increases student learning.
14. Create strategies that encourage, support, and increase student autonomy.
15. Explore strategies that discourage and hinder student autonomy.
16. Differentiate between self-efficacy, self-confidence, self-concept, and self-esteem.
17. Articulate reasons how and why self-efficacy levels impact student achievement.
18. Explain the sources and consequences of self-efficacy.
19. Articulate ways to improve students’ self-efficacy levels.
20. Articulate and incorporate major concepts from motivation theories that enhance student learning such as:  Reinforcement Theory, Entity Theory of Ability, Instrumental-Incremental Theory of Ability, and Expectancy X Value Theory.
21. Select which theories would likely be most effective in their class.
22. Determine, prioritize, and share with colleagues at least one motivational strategy they will implement in their course immediately and one long term.
23. Predict students’ and instructor’s outcomes from such implementations.

Handouts

Titles

1. Nomenclature:  Motivation Definitions
2. Best Practices for Motivating Students to Learn
3. Best Practices for Enhancing Students’ Autonomy
4. Best Practices for Enhancing Students’ Self-Efficacy
5. Quotations:  Motivation
6. References and Resources: Motivation
7. Webliography:  Motivation Internet Resources

This faculty development workshop is available to serve as
Professional Development Hours.

Each participant, who successfully completes this
faculty development workshop,
will be awarded a “Certificate of Completion”.

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