Thursday, April 7, 2011
Chapter 11 Motivation
As I was reading this chapter alot of ideas came into mind. Especially when I came across the conceptions of ability. The chapter discuses two theories of intelligence: entity and incremental. When I taught a 5th grade math a couple of years ago I could see the different beliefs in the children I taught. I taught a lower level class where the students new they were at a lower level and had that attitude that they could not do the work I was teaching them. And then I had the higher leveled students who believe that they could do the work. As a teacher I tried my hardest to show the lower leveled students that they could do the work. My point is that the students I received were grouped based on their abilities and they knew that, so they would not strive to learn more or achieve better than their ability. I am asking the class have they ever encountered this problem and how did they motivate the students to do better in class?
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As a music teacher I receive all students at every level at once. I have high level thinkers, life skills kiddos and everything in between. I want say that last year I tutored a group of 7th graders that knew they were at the bottom of the learning curve. I encouraged them individually with prizes. Each student worked for a different prize. It was a challenge but not impossible.
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