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Interest, Attention, and Motivation
Learners in Context EDU 6132 Module 8
Describe factors influencing student interest, attention and motivation. Elaborate on methods for improving each of these in the context of lesson planning and classroom climate.
Objective
We don’t pay attention to boring things.
Attention promotes elaborate encoding
Attention
Prior Knowledge
Prior Knowledge
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Unusual
Unpredictable
Distinctive
Interest and Awareness
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Emotionally competent stimulus (ECS)
Events connected to emotion = memorable
Emotion
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Overview
Summary
Lesson objective
Schedule of activities
Concept map
Meaning Details
Teach with concepts, connect concepts
Multitasking Myth
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Multitasking Myth
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Attention every 10 minutes
Break-up Direct Instruction
Academic Motivation
Pressley and McCormick (2007)
Inverse relationship
Grade – increase
Motivation – decrease
Decrease in Motivation
Social model
Opinion of others
Feedback
Big fish in the little pond
Self-Efficacy
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Transitions
Elementary to Middle
Multiple teachers
Factory like characteristics
Larger, impersonal
Teachers exert more control
Less social support
Middle to High
Multiple teachers
Same factory like characteristics
Larger, impersonal
Content focus
Appropriate challenge levelScaffold and zone of proximal development
Nurture success
Promote positive expectations
Peer models
Teach specific learning strategies
Capitalize on student interest
Choices
Frequent and focused feedback
Right attribution
Improving Self-Efficacy
1. Cooperative learning
2. Interest
Effort
Ability
Task factors
Luck
Attribution
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A few individual must fail for others to succeed
Curve versus mastery
Publicizing grades
Competition
Conditions where Competitive learning may be appropriate1. Simple review activities2. Absence of evaluative criteria3. Ability to observe competitor’s progress4. Competition as a game5. Equal opportunity to win
(Johnson and Johnson, 1974)
People work together to achieve a common goal
Teams
Peer tutoring
Cooperation
Use Cooperative Learning to promote1. Problem solving2. Creativity3. Quality performance4. Positive classroom interactions5. Social skills
(Johnson and Johnson, 1974)
Not all the time
Interdependence
Accountability
Individual and group
Social skills
Balance
Ability, gender, ethnicity
Characteristics of Effective Cooperative Learning
Promoting Interest
Text readings
Offering meaningful choices
Relevant and vivid
Consider prior knowledge
Encourage students to be active learners
Lesson planning
Variety
Relevance
Consider prior knowledge
Activity
Appropriate challenge level
Provoke curiosity
Promote sense of control
Model interest in learning
Model thinking and problem solving
Identify relevance
Reduce anxiety
Content deserves attentions
Promote curiosity and suspense
Include games
Motivating Students
Describe factors influencing student interest, attention and motivation. Elaborate on methods for improving each of these in the context of lesson planning and classroom climate.
Objective