1. AND HOW DO YOU MOTIVATE YOUR STUDENTS? What motivates You?

2. Motivation Most people do things because they are motivated to do them Two kinds of motivation  Extrinsic  Intrinsic

3. Extrinsic motivation Doing something for an external reward  Usually material  Money  Points  Grades  Treats

4. Intrinsic Motivation Doing something for internal reasons  Satisfaction  “because it’s the right thing to do”  “desire to learn”

5. Which kind is “better”? Better means? Longer-lasting, more reliable Intrinsic does not depend on material goods  Cheaper, portable Extrinsic  The reward becomes the goal, not the action  Without the reward nothing gets done  Rewards become Less effective with time

6. What motivates students? To do their classwork What motivates YOU in YOUR classes?

7. Classwork motivators that aren’t so great because I have to take this class Because my parents are paying for college To improve my GPA Because this will be on the test

8. Some motivators that are better Because programming is useful Because I will learn how to solve problems Because I can be creative Because I’ll know more than the other guys

9. Teachers always looking for motivators Making lessons that are meaningful to the students  Familiar  Relatable to the students’ lives Encourage questions and exploration Try to avoid using “the test” as a club or as the goal Failure is GOOD

10. Failure is good! "Would you like me to give you a formula for... success? It's quite simple, really. Double your rate of failure. You're thinking of failure as the enemy of success. But it isn't at all... you can be discouraged by failure / or you can learn from it. So go ahead and make mistakes. Make all you can. Because, remember that's where you'll find success. On the far side.. Thomas J. Watson quotes (American Entrepreneur and Founder of IBM, 1874-1956)

11. Dr. Marvin Marshall has a system “Discipline without Stress, Punishment or Rewards”  Behaviors can be described as different Levels  Encourage students to realize they have a choice of how they behave every day  Some levels are not acceptable and the teacher has to use authority  Some levels are very acceptable and encouraged

12. Dr. Marvin Marshall Level A – Anarchy – student does anything but what they were asked to do Level B – Bully – disruption – student also distracts other students so they don’t work either These two require intervention by the teacher

13. Marvin Marshall Level C – Cooperation – the student does the work, as long as someone is watching, to get attention or to show off Level D – Self motivated – student works because they want to improve, they want to master the material C and D are encouraged, D more than C

14. Ask the students “What level was that behavior?” “Which level leads to the most, best learning?” “Give me some examples of behavior that is Level A, Level B, Level C, Level D” Ask them to think about their behavior in the last few minutes, how would they classify it?

15. Great results? Many people have stated they got great results from students in groups and individually with this system www.marvinmarshall.com http://www.youtube.com/user/MarvMarshall http://www.marvinmarshall.com/files/pdf/Phi_Delt a_Kappan.pdf (11 pages) http://www.marvinmarshall.com/files/pdf/Phi_Delt a_Kappan.pdf