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Instruction to Promote a Love of Learning Deborah Stipek

Instruction to Promote a Love of Learning Deborah Stipek. Interest in Learning. Definition of Success. achieving personal goals mastering new skills. relative performance receiving scarce rewards/ opportunities. Definition of Ability. Incremental specific unstable

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Instruction to Promote a Love of Learning Deborah Stipek

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  1. Instruction to Promote a Love of Learning Deborah Stipek

  2. Interest in Learning

  3. Definition of Success • achieving personal • goals • mastering new • skills • relative performance • receiving scarce • rewards/ • opportunities

  4. Definition of Ability • Incremental • specific • unstable • acquired through • effort and • persistence • Entity • general (like IQ) • stable • native (you have • it or you don’t) • effort has limited • effect

  5. Goals • Learning Goals • master new skills • develop • understanding • get smart • Performance Goals • good grades • recognition • extrinsic rewards • look smart

  6. Consequences of Performance Goals • Need prodding, extrinsic incentives (rewards), & punishments • Learn only what is required • Learning is superficial, focused on getting “the right answer” • Avoid challenges, play games, cheat • Under-perform

  7. Drabble & Kathy cartoons from Palo Alto Talk

  8. When Children Enjoy & are Focused on Learning(rather than on performing) • Take more responsibility for learning • Seek challenges • Learn at a deeper, more conceptual level • More creative/innovative • Seek learning outside of school, throughout life

  9. Motivating Learning Contexts • Choice • Personally meaningful/authentic tasks • Just right challenge • Active, open-ended, multidimensional problem solving • Focus is on learning, understanding, mastering skill

  10. Choice • Within structure and with accountability • Necessary to develop planning and organizational skills and personal responsibility • Topics, Tasks, Strategies, Time

  11. Personally Meaningful • Choice helps • Connect to students’ culture, lives, interests • Have students ask questions • Encourage passions

  12. Real Life Like (Authentic) • Original sources • Connecting to home • Connecting to the community • Like problems encountered outside of school • Collaboration (distributed expertise)

  13. Just Right Challenge • Hard enough to require effort, improve understanding/skills • more engaging • for robust self confidence • Requires individualization • Strategies • differentiated tasks • differentiated expectations • skill-based, flexible grouping

  14. Active, Open-ended, Multidimensional • Open-ended questions-problems • how? why? explain – not what? when? • Active: manipulating, simulating, debating, role playing • Multidimensional (projects) • Changes teacher’s role • Guides rather than directs • Monitors/supports rather than controls

  15. Focus on Learning/Understanding • Focus on understanding, not right answer • Reward effort/improvement • Focus evaluation on progress toward achieving standard • Treat errors as natural part of learning • Press for continued development • Create community of interdependent learners

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