1. Goal Orientation Paul Gooddy Freedigitalphotos.net

2. What You Tried for Confidence & Success  Share your experience at your table.  Was it successful or not? Why do you think so? How could it be improved if not successful? When/how might you use this strategy again?  Report to large group

3. Goal Orientation Mastery Goal  Internally driven  Focus is learning  Students participate  Revision & improvement important  Everyone can succeed  Challenge is promoted  Growth Mindset (foreshadow) Performance  Externally driven  Focus is performing  Teacher directed  Norm referenced  Winners & losers  Students tend to play it safe  Fixed Mindset (foreshadow)  Can be Approach or Avoidance

4. Review of Chapter  What did you think of this way of conceptualizing student motivation?  Were you familiar with mastery (learning) and performance (ego) goals as concepts? Have you noticed this in your students whether you knew the name for it or not?  What barriers exist in promoting mastery over performance?

5. Review of Findings In general, few students have mastery goals for science. Students are more likely to be organized & diligent when mastery goals are emphasized. Mastery Goal Oriented classrooms promote deep processing of content, comprehension monitoring, reorganizing new information, and making connections to prior knowledge Science classrooms tend to emphasize performance goals In terms of motivation, emphasizing deeper understanding of the topics benefited female students more than male students. Parent involvement is associated with students’ mastery goal orientation. By digitalart, freedigitalphotos.net

6.  Rewards Are they all they are cracked up to be? ? By arthur84,freedigitalphotos.net

7. Assessment and Awareness  Personal Goal Orientation (Individual) Complete the Personal Mastery Goal Scale for 2 students in your class:the Personal Mastery Goal Scale  One who gets very high grades  one who seems engaged/interested but gets low grades. Discuss the level of mastery goal orientation of these 2 students.  Classroom Goal Orientation Now, evaluate your classroom. What is the emphasis?evaluate your classroom By Stuart Miles, freedigitalphotos.net

8. Classroom Goal Structures MasteryPerformance SuccessImprovement, progress, mastery Good grades, better than others EffortLearn new thingsDemonstrate ability SatisfactionProgress, MasteryOutperforming others, “sliding by” EvaluationProgressSocial comparison (Posting grades) MistakesPart of learning processFailure, lack of ability Ability (Mindset)GrowthFixed

9. Promote Deep Processing of Information Notice how this teacher has students THINK and thereby learn about content often taught as rote. 1. Identify a topic that you are teaching or will teach soon 2. How can you have the students: a. Compare, contrast; b. Classify; c. Find patterns; d. Explain: Why? How? How do you know?; e. Provide evidence; f. Predict, hypothesize; Identify cause and effect Master isolated images, freedigitalphotos.net

10. Promote Mastery  Deliberately make mistakes and ask students to catch them.  Permit revision & Respond to error as a learning experience.  Directly Teach about Goal Orientation. Directly Teach about Goal Orientation  Provide reassurance, feedback, and instrumental support.reassurance, feedback, and instrumental support  Tell about scientists who failed before succeeding.  Be a role model for mastery learningrole model By stockimages,freedigitalphotos.net

11. Promote Self Regulation

12. Fostering Parent Involvement  Are the parents of your students oriented to performance? Brief articles Brief articles for parents Homework tips on the website Promote parent child talk about science: ask your students to teach their parents something

13. Your Plan SCIENCE PLANS By Rawich, freedigitalphotos.net