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
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Explore the five facets of motivation - Competence, Relationships, Autonomy, Value, and Emotion (CRAVE).
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Learn five fast facts from research about each facet
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Take a motivation inventory to examine your own motivational needs
Day 1 - 10:15 am – 11:30 am
Emotions are the gatekeeper to learning
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Learn how students need to be in a neutral or positive emotional state to learn
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Investigate how confusion can be used to generate interest
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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
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Learn firsthand how student confidence affects motivation
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Consider the benefits of a growth mindset and associated pitfalls
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Discover how to build student confidence through multiple layers of support
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Investigate the power of offering students choice
Day 1 - 2:15 pm – 3:30 pm
Instruction begins and ends with the learner
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Explore relationships and how they motivate learners
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Learn to encourage student talk by making it productive
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Examine how relevancy and purposeful tasks engage students
Day 2 - 8:30 am – 10:00 am
Students process information using four major learning styles
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Learn about various learning styles and take an inventory to discover your own learning preference
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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
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Demystify differentiation and build your ability to meet student needs
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Discover how offering students choice creates highly motivated learners
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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
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Take everything you've learned to this point and put it to use
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Adapt an existing strategy, create your own, or examine one of your lessons using motivational criteria
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Walk away with practical solutions to engage all your students
Day 2 - 2:15 pm – 3:30 pm
Teachers teach students, not subjects
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Examine and discuss the work produced in the previous module
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Sum up both days of learning by prioritizing the content into one important truth