The document discusses seven key elements that promote motivation in students: building strong relationships, explaining why the content matters, giving students voice and choice, making the content relevant, making it fun, making it real, and fostering self-efficacy. It provides examples for how teachers can implement each element, such as developing caring communities, linking content to students' interests, providing academic choices, connecting lessons to students' lives, and offering manageable assignments to build confidence.

1. Motivation: Inspiring Success Catherine Flynn & Treva King April 1, 2010 April 1, 2010

2. Rationale Motivation is a key element in effective differentiated instruction Motivation has been brought up as a concern a number of times at recent SRBI meetings

3. KUD Teachers will... Know -- seven key elements that promote motivation in students Understand --that teachers’ actions can have a positive effect of student motivation Do --set a goal related to improving at least one element promoting motivation

4. Build Strong Relationships Develop a caring community of learners Sets the stage for social interaction and collaboration--motivating for students to come together to share their learning and build upon each others’ thinking Learn as much as you can about your students--interests, learning styles, and strengths

5. Tell Them Why It Matters Why are we doing this?---explain how specific skill/strategy will be helpful to them Plan instruction that moves quickly beyond lower levels of knowing to major concepts and essential understandings

6. A Voice and a Choice Academic choice--a framework for giving students structured, meaningful choices about what and how they learn--content and process Provide opportunities for students to use different modes of self-expression--can address both product and process--learning styles Builds on children’s natural curiosity and autonomy--the need to feel competent

7. Make it Relevant How do I link my student’s situational interest with their reading to help them develop a more stable, personal interest in a topic? situational interest--affective reactions and attention to particular content or tasks personal interest--a broader, more enduring predisposition toward a domain, classes or objects, events, or ideas

8. Make it fun Discover Connect to life Play games

9. FACT STRATEGO Place your STAR card in position on your board. Continue to place your fact cards on your board in strategic positions to protect your STAR card from the other player. Each player takes turns “attacking” the other players fact cards. The high fact card takes the new position, the low fact card removes their card from the board. Player to attack the STAR card wins the game!

10. Make it real Engage thinking... lower level (recall, memorization, solving) versus higher level (relationship, discover, design) Connect to past learning

11. Without counting 1-by-1 and without writing anything down, calculate the number of shaded squares in the 10 by 10 grid shown. Determine a general rule for finding the number of shaded squares in any similar n by n grid.

12. Self-efficacy An individual’s beliefs, judgments, and perceptions of his or her capacities for specific tasks at particular points in time How do we support self-efficacy? offer students texts that match their reading levels and interests build confidence by providing manageable, short assignments that can be completed successfully assign

13. Goals Guide students to establish specific learning goals--ability is not fixed, “becoming smarter is under the control of each student” Provide specific feedback on student progress, as compared to themselves Praise student’s actions and choices rather than talent or ability