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Adolescent Student Motivation

Adolescent Student Motivation. What are the motivations of students who do well in school? What factors affect these motivations?. Eileen Friday. Current Cultural Drives. National Year 2000 Goals National School-to-Work Goals Florida Sunshine State Standards

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Adolescent Student Motivation

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  1. Adolescent Student Motivation • What are the motivations of students who do well in school? • What factors affect these motivations? Eileen Friday

  2. Current Cultural Drives • National Year 2000 Goals • National School-to-Work Goals • Florida Sunshine State Standards • Performance Based School Funding • School Improvement Committee Goals • New Teacher Evaluation Process

  3. Cultural Goals Don’t Determine Student Goals Students are failing. Students are dropping out of high school before graduating.

  4. Student Academic Goals • Mastery: to learn or master a subject for intrinsic rewards • Extrinsic or performance: to gain a reward or avoid a consequence • Relative: to be seen as good in relation to others • Pro-social: social competence • Responsibility: moral competence

  5. Student Self-Image • Am I a good student? • Am I okay socially? • Is my learning up to me, or is it outside my control? • How do I appear to others? • What do I expect of myself?

  6. Student Relationships • Family • Peers • Teachers • Do they care? • Are they supportive? • What are their values?

  7. Factors Affecting Outcomes

  8. Hints for Teachers • Have mastery goals for class. • Relationships matter! • Build cognitive self-esteem.

  9. Suggested reading list for EDF 7232: http://reach.ucf.edu/~edf7232/weiner.html A page for parents: http://www.mnea.org/100.html Sports and achievement: http://www.personal.psu.edu/faculty/n/x/nxd10/achieve.htm Disconnected youth: http://www.urban.org/pubs/disconec.htm An ERIC site: list and links: http://www.indiana.edu/~eric_rec/ieo/bibs/mot-gen.html Child Development Institute: http://www.cdipage.com/brain.htm Florida Sunshine State Standards: http://www.firn.edu/doe/menu/sss.htm Web Sites to Visit

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