Motivating Students to Learn Q&A Question 3
Summary
TLDRThe video script discusses three key steps teachers can take to motivate students intrinsically: fostering competence, autonomy, and relatedness. The speaker emphasizes the importance of understanding students as individuals, both inside and outside the classroom, to build their sense of competence. Providing support, clear rationale, and connecting lessons to students' future goals helps them find purpose in their education. These strategies encourage intrinsic motivation by addressing students' personal needs and goals. Additionally, resources for further strategies are available on the Merlot website.
Takeaways
- 😀 Focus on Competence, Autonomy, and Relatedness to motivate students intrinsically.
- 🧑🏫 Teachers should understand their students as individuals to better support their learning.
- 🤝 Investing time outside the classroom helps teachers connect with students on a personal level.
- 📚 Provide students with support structures to enhance their feeling of competence in learning.
- 🧠 Students need to know where they can get help when they encounter difficulties.
- 📢 Always provide a clear rationale for why students need to learn certain things.
- 🎯 Linking schoolwork to future career goals gives students a sense of purpose.
- 👩🎓 Many students don’t understand why they go to school, so it’s essential to clarify the purpose.
- 💡 Making learning meaningful by connecting it to students’ future aspirations increases intrinsic motivation.
- 🌐 Teachers can find additional strategies to support student motivation on the MERLOT website.
Q & A
What is the first step a teacher can take to motivate students intrinsically?
-The first step is understanding the student as a person, which may require investing time outside the classroom to better comprehend their needs and well-being.
Why is understanding a student outside the classroom important?
-It allows teachers to gain deeper insights into students' personal challenges and learning preferences, which can improve the support and help they offer.
What are the three key aspects that help motivate students intrinsically?
-The three key aspects are competence, autonomy, and relatedness.
How can teachers help students feel more competent?
-Teachers can provide help and a support structure, ensuring students know where to seek help and feel confident they will receive the assistance they need.
What is the role of providing a rationale in motivating students?
-Providing a rationale helps students understand the purpose of their learning and links it to future skills or professions, enhancing intrinsic motivation.
Why do many students lack intrinsic motivation to study?
-Many students attend school because their parents ask them to, and they do not understand the purpose of studying or how it relates to their future.
How can teachers give students a sense of purpose in their learning?
-Teachers can connect what students are learning to their future professions or skills, making the content more meaningful and purposeful.
What strategy is emphasized in motivating students through the CAR model?
-The CAR model emphasizes enhancing students' competence, autonomy, and relatedness to foster intrinsic motivation.
What resources are available to help teachers implement these motivational strategies?
-The Merlot website offers various strategies and downloadable resources that teachers can use to motivate students.
What is the overall message of the speaker regarding intrinsic motivation in students?
-The overall message is that intrinsic motivation can be enhanced by understanding students' needs, providing support, offering purpose, and focusing on competence, autonomy, and relatedness.
Outlines
🎯 Three Key Steps to Motivate Students Intrinsically
The speaker emphasizes three fundamental steps to enhance students' intrinsic motivation, focusing on competence, autonomy, and relatedness. First, teachers should deeply understand their students as individuals. This requires time outside the classroom to ensure that they provide personalized support, especially when students struggle. By offering a structured support system, students will feel more competent. Secondly, it's crucial to explain the rationale behind their studies, linking schoolwork to future goals and professions, fostering a sense of purpose and motivation.
💡 The Importance of Personalizing Education
The speaker stresses that teachers need to invest time beyond the classroom to understand each student as a person. This is vital for creating a supportive environment where students feel competent. When students face difficulties in subjects like mathematics, they should have a reliable platform or person they can turn to for help. This feeling of certainty boosts their competence and encourages intrinsic motivation. The speaker also highlights the importance of providing students with clear reasons for their education, linking their learning to future career opportunities to give it greater meaning.
🧠 Enhancing Competence and Purpose in Learning
In this section, the focus is on creating a system that ensures students feel competent in their learning. Teachers should offer help when students face difficulties and guarantee access to resources or people who can assist. This builds confidence and competence. Additionally, the speaker points out that many students go through school without understanding its purpose. Teachers need to clarify the connection between current learning and future goals or careers. By making education purposeful, students are more likely to be intrinsically motivated to learn.
Mindmap
Keywords
💡Competence
💡Autonomy
💡Relatedness
💡Intrinsic Motivation
💡Purpose
💡Support Structure
💡Understanding Students
💡Rationale
💡Mathematics Questions
💡Life Skills
Highlights
Teachers should focus on three areas to motivate students: competence, autonomy, and relatedness.
Understanding students as individuals is crucial for their well-being and intrinsic motivation.
Teachers may need to invest time outside the classroom to build relationships with their students.
Providing students with structured support helps enhance their sense of competence.
Students should have a clear understanding of where they can get help and be confident that help is available.
It’s essential to give students a sense of purpose by explaining the rationale behind tasks.
Many students go to school without understanding why they are studying, which can impact motivation.
Linking schoolwork to future skills and professions can increase students’ intrinsic motivation.
Providing students with a clear sense of direction and purpose makes learning more meaningful for them.
Competence, autonomy, and relatedness are central to enhancing intrinsic motivation in students.
Support structures must ensure students feel confident in their ability to ask for help.
Teachers can improve motivation by helping students see how their current learning connects to future goals.
The process of learning should not feel automatic; students need to understand the 'why' behind their education.
Merlot offers various strategies that teachers can download to support intrinsic motivation.
Motivating students intrinsically requires giving them autonomy, a sense of competence, and relatedness to others.
Transcripts
what would be one easy step that
teachers can take to motivate their
students intrinsically provide any easy
step
okay I won't give you one easy step
right I'll give you three easy okay I
think yeah we just focus on the car
right competence autonomy and and
relatedness right and that will give us
the the correct uh direction to try to
motivate our students first of all as a
teacher right you need to understand
your student as a person right we are
trying to help this person try to
educate this person try to think about
the well-being of the students so
understanding your student is is
definitely very important right you
don't have time to do it in the class
you can you need to invest time outside
of a classroom to understand your
student as a person
and we know that the students sometimes
they will feel uh find difficulties in
understanding certain topics or their
difficulty in in solving some particular
mathematics questions or whatever we
need to provide help and support
structure so that the students can have
that feeling of competence that they
know where to get help uh that they are
very certain that if if they ask or if
they go to that particular platform or
the person they will definitely get help
that will actually enhance their
competence and the next thing right is
whatever we do we need to
provide rationale right the reason why
they need to do this okay this is very
important right many of the students
right they don't even know why they want
to study why they go to school it's it's
just like
you know it's automatic right they're
having from Young right the parents ask
them to go to school and they just go to
school so every day they go to school
they don't know what is it for right so
whatever we do we need to give them that
sense of purpose you know whether it's
to link the future uh skills the future
profession that they want to go into
link link to what they are learning now
and and make it purposeful I think that
would definitely enhance their
motivation uh to to learn intrinsically
more intrinsically right and we also
have many uh such strategies uh in the
Merlot website where the teachers can
actually go and download thank you I
think there is a important life skills
that sometimes you encounter problems so
it's not that would be one easy step
that teachers can take to motivate their
students intrinsically program any easy
step
okay I won't give you one easy step
right I'll give you three easy steps
okay I think yeah we just focus on the
car right competence autonomy and and
relatedness right and that that will
give us the the correct uh uh direction
to try to motivate our students first of
all as a teacher right you need to
understand your student as a person
right we are trying to help this person
try to educate this person try to think
about the well-being of the students so
understanding your student is is
definitely very important right you
don't have time to do it in the class
you can you need to invest time outside
of your classroom to understand your
student as a person
and we know that the students sometimes
they will feel uh find difficulties in
understanding certain topics or they
have difficulty in in solving some
particular mathematics questions or
whatever we need to provide help and
support structure so that the students
can have that feeling of competence that
they know where to get help uh that they
are very certain that if if they ask or
if they go to that particular platform
or the person they will definitely get
help they will actually enhance their
competence and the next thing right is
whatever we do we need to
provide rationale right the reason why
they need to do this okay this is very
important right many of the students
right they don't even know why they want
to study why they go to school it's it's
just like
it's automatic right they are being from
Young right the parents ask them to go
to school and they just go to school so
every day they go to school they don't
know what is it for right so whatever we
do we need to give them that sense of
purpose you know whether it's to link
the future uh skills the future
profession that they want to go into
link link to what they are learning now
and make it purposeful I think that
would definitely enhance their
motivation uh to to learn intrinsically
more intrinsically right and we also
have many uh such strategies uh in the
Merlot website where the teachers can
actually go and download thank you I
think that's an important life skills
that sometimes you encounter problems
it's not that what would be one easy
step that teachers can take to motivate
their students intrinsically propane any
easy step
okay I won't give you one easy step
right I'll give you three easy steps
okay I think yeah we just focus on the
car right competence autonomy and and
relatedness right and that that will
give us the the correct uh uh direction
to try to motivate our students first of
all as a teacher right you need to
understand your student as a person
right we are trying to help this person
try to educate this person try to think
about the well-being of the students so
understanding your student is is
definitely very important right you
don't have time to do it in the class
you can you need to invest time outside
of your classroom to understand your
student as a person
and we know that the students sometimes
they will feel uh find difficulties in
understanding certain topics or their
difficulty in in solving some particular
mathematics questions or whatever we
need to provide help and support
structure so that the students can have
that feeling of competence that they
know where to get help uh that they are
very certain that if if they ask or if
they go to that particular platform or
or the person they will definitely get
help they will actually enhance their
competence and the next thing right is
whatever we do we need to
provide rationale right the reason why
they need to do this okay this is very
important many of the students right
they don't even know why they want to
study why they go to school it's it's
just like
it's automatic right they're having from
Young right the parents ask them to go
to school and they just go to school so
every day they go to school they don't
know what is it for right so whatever we
do we didn't give them that sense of
purpose now whether it's to link the
future uh skills the future profession
that they want to go into link link to
what they are learning now and make it
purposeful I think that would definitely
enhance their motivation uh to to learn
intrinsically more intrinsically right
and we also have many uh such strategies
uh in the Merlot website where the
teachers can actually go and download
thank you I think that's an important
life skills that sometimes you encounter
problems and it's not that what would be
one easy step that teachers can take to
motivate their students intrinsically
propane any easy step
okay I won't give you one easy step
right I'll give you three easy steps
okay I think yeah we just focus on the
car right competence autonomy and and
relatedness right and that that will
give us the the correct uh uh direction
to try to motivate our students first of
all as a teacher right you need to
understand your student as a person
right we are trying to help this person
try to educate this person try to think
about the well-being of the students so
understanding your student is is
definitely very important right you
don't have time to do it in the class
you can you need to invest time outside
of your classroom to understand your
student as a person
and we know that the students sometimes
they will feel uh find difficulties in
understanding certain topics or their
difficulty in in solving some particular
mathematics questions or whatever we
need to provide help and support
structure so that the students can have
that feeling of competence that they
know where to get help uh that they are
very certain that if if they ask or if
they go to that particular platform or
the person they will definitely get help
that will actually enhance their
competence and the next thing right is
whatever we do we need to
provide rationale right the reason why
they need to do this okay this is very
important right many of the students
right they don't even know why they want
to study why they go to school it's it's
just like
it's automatic right they're having from
Young right the parents ask them to go
to school and they just go to school so
every day they go to school they don't
know what is it for right so whatever we
do we need to give them that sense of
purpose you know whether it's to link
the future uh skills the future
profession that they want to go into
link link to what they are learning now
and make it purposeful I think that
would definitely enhance their
motivation uh to to learn intrinsically
more intrinsically right and we also
have many uh such strategies uh in the
Merlot website where the teachers can
actually go and download thank you I
think that is an important life skills
that sometimes you encounter problems
that it's not the C step that teachers
can take to motivate their students
intrinsically program any easy step okay
I won't give you one easy instead right
I'll give you three easy okay I think
yeah we just focus on the car right
competence autonomy and relatedness
right and that will give us the the
correct uh direction to try to motivate
our students first of all as a teacher
right you need to understand your
student as a person right we are trying
to help this person try to educate this
person try to think about the well-being
of the students so understanding your
student is is definitely very important
right you don't have time to do it in
the class you can you need to invest
time outside of your classroom to
understand your student as a person
and we know that the students sometimes
they will feel uh find difficulties in
understanding certain topics or their
difficulty in in solving some particular
mathematics questions or whatever we
need to provide help and support
structure so that the students can have
that feeling of competence that they
know where to get help or that they are
very certain that if if they ask or if
they go to that particular platform or
the person they will definitely get help
that will actually enhance their
competence and the next thing right is
whatever we do we need to
provide rationale right the reason why
they need to do this okay this is very
important right many of the students
right they don't even know why they want
to study why they go to school it's it's
just like
yeah it's automatic right they are being
from Young right the parents ask them to
go to school and they just go to school
so every day they go to school they
don't know what is it for right so
whatever we do we need to give them that
sense of purpose you know whether it's
to link the future uh skills the future
profession that they want to go into uh
link to what they are learning now and
make it purposeful I think that would
definitely enhance their motivation uh
to to learn intrinsically more in
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