Don Berg brought a new perspective to the podcast and we are so grateful for his time and this episode. We broke the script with educator guests and talked with a psychologist. We dive deep into student motivation and how we can best foster that learning environment for students. The harsh reality is, we cannot motivate a person. We need to create opportunities for students to create their own motivation.
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Don Berg is a certified psychologist and has focused on student motivation.
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Dive into the science of motivation and engagement as it relates to classrooms.
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The harsh reality is that students only learn what they want to learn. If they don’t want to, they won’t.
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You cannot motivate someone, they can only motivate themselves. We can create opportunities to tap into the three necessary components of motivation:
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Autonomy
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Relatedness
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Competency
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It’s not just about the relationships between one student to the teacher, but students as a whole. Those relationships across the classroom are key to supporting successful learning.
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Collective illusions are a disparity between the individual opinion and the perceived opinion of society as a whole. There is a notion that our society demands results from standardized tests, and yet everyone on a personal level agrees people do not value standardized tests.
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Creating classroom autonomy is key, and cannot just be based on giving choices.
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