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Motivating Learners

Motivating students is still one of the most challenging aspects of one's teaching practice. Here you will find links to several articles about motivation theory, as well as a number of links to practical tips for motivating students.

Motivation Theory
Practical Tips for Motivating Learners
Strategies Used By Your Peers

Motivation Theory

http://ide.ed.psu.edu/IDDE/ARCS.htm
ARCS Motivation Theory: John Kellar posits that there are four major categories of strategies for motivating students: Attention, Relevance, Confidence and Satisfaction. For a description of these four categories, and links to associated instructional strategies, click on this link. The links are well worth checking out! I particularly like the beating heart graphic as an attention-getter strategy.


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http://honolulu.hawaii.edu/intranet/committees/FacDevCom/guidebk/teachtip/maslow.htm
Let's Not Forget Maslow : Abraham Maslow's hierarchical theory of motivation is a classic. In this Teaching Tip from Honolulu Community College, Maslow's theory is applied specifically to education, including 10 tips for incorporating Maslow's ideas in the classroom.

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Practical Tips for Motivating Learners

http://teaching.berkeley.edu/bgd/motivate.html
From Barbara Davis' book Tools for Teaching, a number of excellent tips for motivating your learners. Check out the hard copies of this text in the LRC.

http://www.library.yale.edu/training/stod/onthejob/principles.html
An excellent set of suggestions for motivating adult learners from the Staff Training and Organization Development department at Yale University.

http://www.indiana.edu/~rcapub/v22n1/p13.html
For an interesting take on student motivation from Randy Isaacson's perspective, read "Starting Where the Students Are" by Judi Hetrick.

http://honolulu.hawaii.edu/intranet/committees/FacDevCom/guidebk/teachtip/unmotiva.htm
Having a bad day? Think it's all your fault that you are having trouble motivating students? It's time to read the delightful article entitled "Motivating the Unmotivated" by Ronald Luce from Hocking Technical College.

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Strategies Used By Your Peers

Now it's your turn! We'd like to hear about your favourite strategies for motivating your learners. Just write up a short description of your motivation strategy and send it to Gail Allan.