This document discusses strategies for motivating students and engaging them in learning. It suggests sharing best practices with other teachers, attending workshops on classroom management and creating interest in subjects. The document emphasizes that teachers play an important role through setting expectations, creating a supportive classroom environment, and using different approaches to motivation like cognitive, behavioral and social perspectives. It also stresses the importance of engaging prior knowledge, collaborative learning, real-world contexts, learning by doing, and catering to different learning styles to make learning more productive.

1. Strategies

2. Strategies
• Sharing session with Ms Chong and Mdm
Norah on their best practices
– What did they do to engage the students?
– Why do students display interest in subject?
– How did they empower students to be responsible
for their own learning?
• Attending workshops or courses on:
– Classroom management
– Creating interest in subjects/ topics

3. Strategies
• School to provide supportive environment for
teachers
– Teachers are lack of own motivation

4. Teacher play an important role in:
(Santrock, J.W., 2009)
• Students’ achievement (Patrick &
Kaplan,2007)
• Setting expectations and goals
• Classroom environment
• Teacher-student relationship
• Different approaches to motivate students
(humanistic, cognitive, behavioral, social)
• Create interest and curiosity

5. Expectations:
• “How hard students will work can depend on
how much they expect to accomplish” by
Santrock, 2009.
• Direct influence in performance, persistence
and task choice

6. Goals Setting:
• Self-efficacy and achievement improve when
short term goals set are specific and
challenging (Bandura, 1997; Schunk,2008;
Schunk, Pintrich & Meece, 2008)
• Make commitments in bite-size

7. Different approaches to motivation:
(Santrock, J.W., 2009)
• Cognitive Perspective (Intrinsic)
– Internal motivation to achieve
– Student’s effort that leads to success or failure
• Humanistic perspective (Intrinsic)
– Maslow’s hierarchy of needs theory
– Freedom to choose their destiny and positive
qualities

8. Different approaches to motivation:
(Santrock, J.W., 2009)
• Behavioral perspective(Extrinsic)
– Extrinsic rewards and punishments
(Emmer & Evertson, 2009)
• Brings up the interest and excitement to the class
• Drives towards appropriate behavior
• Engage in task
• Convey information about mastery (Bandura, 1982;
Deci,1975)
• Social Perspective
– Need for affiliation or relatedness
– Positive relationship with teachers, peers, parents

9. Different dimensions of learning
• Engaging prior knowledge
• Collaborative learning
• Real world context
• Learning by doing
• Self directed learning

10. Learning Styles
• Cater to different learning abilities students
• Make learning more productive
• Learning styles:
– Fleming’s VARK model (Styles of Learning, 2011)
• Audio
• Visual
• Kinesthetic

11. References
Styles of learning (2011) Retrieved October
19,2011, from Styles of learning:
http://www.leopard-
learning.com/stylesoflearning.html
Santrock, J.W. (2009). Educational Psychology
(4th ed.) (McGraw-Hill International Edition).
Boston: McGraw-Hill