Feb 14 2008
6C’s of Motivation
I just read a wonderful article on student motivation, Six C’s of Motivation, and how teachers can increase it in the clasroom.
1. Choice – students involved in making their own decisions in a task (eg. topic etc).
2. Challenge – providing students with challenge to avoid boredom, but not too much so it doesn’t produce anxiety.
3. Control – Students deciding their own roles, being involved in decision making, organising of content.
4. Collaboration – Students work with others to reach a desired goal inspiring one another.
5. Constructing meaning -Teacher acts as a facilitator to help students construct meaning, setting a meaningful goal, and students begin to understand the value of knowledge.
6. Consequences - Students work is published to increase ownership, effort, achievement and repsonsibility.
This learning design works well with open ended tasks! Sounds good!!
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“Control,” I could relate, giving people control over specific tasks gets them motivated to do the task.
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