This training is engaging, fully immersive, and practical. Flexibility exists to best meet your unique professional development needs. It is designed to be a one- or two-day workshop. The one-day training focuses on the five facets of student motivation: Competence, Relationships, Autonomy, Value, and Emotions. The two-day training includes the day one training and then investigates the four major learning styles and how they can be used to differentiate instruction.

 

Day 1 - 8:30 am – 10:00 am

Student motivation has five facets 

• Explore the five facets of motivation - Competence, Relationships, Autonomy, Value, and Emotion (CRAVE).

• Learn five fast facts from research about each facet

• Take a motivation inventory to examine your own motivational needs

 

Day 1 - 10:15 am – 11:30 am

Emotions are the gatekeeper to learning

• Learn how students need to be in a neutral or positive emotional state to learn

• Investigate how confusion can be used to generate interest

• Examine the four stages of interest development to boost engagement

 

Day 1 - 11:30 am – 12:45 pm (Lunch)

 

Day 1 - 12:45 pm – 2:00 pm

Intrinsic motivation requires competence and autonomy

• Learn firsthand how student confidence affects motivation

• Consider the benefits of a growth mindset and associated pitfalls

• Discover how to build student confidence through multiple layers of support

• Investigate the power of offering students choice

 

Day 1 - 2:15 pm – 3:30 pm

Instruction begins and ends with the learner

• Explore relationships and how they motivate learners

• Learn to encourage student talk by making it productive

• Examine how relevancy and purposeful tasks engage students

 

Day 2 - 8:30 am – 10:00 am

Students process information using four major learning styles

• Learn about various learning styles and take an inventory to discover your own learning preference

• Discover how to adapt a teaching strategy to incorporate all learning styles

 

Day 2 - 10:15 am – 11:30 am

Differentiation is responding to the needs of all learners

• Demystify differentiation and build your ability to meet student needs

• Discover how offering students choice creates highly motivated learners

• Learn how to build assignments using Bloom's Revised Taxonomy

 

Day 2 - 11:30 am – 12:45 pm (Lunch)

 

Day 2 - 12:45 pm – 2:00 pm

Effective instruction is varied and personalized

• Take everything you've learned to this point and put it to use

• Adapt an existing strategy, create your own, or examine one of your lessons using motivational criteria

• Walk away with practical solutions to engage all your students

 

Day 2 - 2:15 pm – 3:30 pm

Teachers teach students, not subjects

• Examine and discuss the work produced in the previous module

• Sum up both days of learning by prioritizing the content into one important truth