Research Question:Which motivation types students learn better?

When I hear this phase at first, I think that it related to learner’s responsibilities. If they want to become good learner or they want to become good person at future, they have to know their responsibilities. Knowing responsibility is intrinsic motivation. It works longer than extrinsic motivation. With extrinsic motivation learner can motivate a short time, but intrinsic is opposite. Teachers have to focus intrinsic motivation as future teachers, which can only love his job and love students. Just recommend of me  Here, I found some beneficial thing that you can use as a motivation source. 1. Praise Students in Ways Big and Small Recognize work in class, display good work in the classroom and send positive notes home to parents, hold weekly awards in your classroom, organize academic pep rallies to honor the honor roll, and even sponsor a Teacher Shoutout section in the student newspaper to acknowledge student’s hard work. 2. Expect Excellence Set high, yet realistic expectations. Make sure to voice those expectations. Set short terms goals and celebrate when they are achieved. 3. Spread Excitement Like a Virus Show your enthusiasm in the subject and use appropriate, concrete and understandable examples to help students grasp it. For example, I love alliteration. Before I explain the concept to students, we “improv” subjects they’re interested in. After learning about alliteration, they brainstorm alliterative titles for their chosen subjects. 4. Mix It Up It’s a classic concept and the basis for differentiated instruction, but it needs to be said: using a variety of teaching methods caters to all types of learners. By doing this in an orderly way, you can also maintain order in your classroom. In a generic example for daily instruction, journal for 10 minutes to open class; introduce the concept for 15 minutes; discuss/group work for 15 minutes; Q&A or guided work time to finish the class. This way, students know what to expect everyday and have less opportunity to act up. 5. Assign Classroom Jobs With students, create a list of jobs for the week. Using the criteria of your choosing, let students earn the opportunity to pick their classroom jobs for the next week. These jobs can cater to their interests and skills. Classroom Job Examples • Post to the Class blog • Update Calendar • Moderate review games • Pick start of class music • Watch class pet • Public relations officer (address people who visit class) • Standard class jobs like Attendance, Cleaning the boards, putting up chairs, etc. 6. Hand Over Some Control If students take ownership of what you do in class, then they have less room to complain (though we all know, it’ll never stop completely). Take an audit of your class, asking what they enjoy doing, what helps them learn, what they’re excited about after class. Multiple choice might be the best way to start if you predict a lot of “nothing” or “watch movies” answers. After reviewing the answers, integrate their ideas into your lessons or guide a brainstorm session on how these ideas could translate into class. On a systematic level, let students choose from elective classes in a collegiate format. Again, they can tap into their passion and relate to their subject matter if they have a choice. 7. Open-format Fridays You can also translate this student empowerment into an incentive program. Students who attended class all week, completed all assignments and obeyed all classroom rules can vote on Friday’s activities (lecture, discussion, watching a video, class jeopardy, acting out a scene from a play or history). 8. Relating Lessons to Students’ Lives Whether it is budgeting for family Christmas gifts, choosing short stories about your town, tying in the war of 1812 with Iraq, rapping about ions, or using Pop Culture Printables, students will care more if they identify themselves or their everyday lives in what they’re learning. 9. Track Improvement In those difficult classes, it can feel like a never-ending uphill battle, so try to remind students that they’ve come a long way. Set achievable, short-term goals, emphasis improvement, keep self-evaluation forms to fill out and compare throughout the year, or revisit mastered concepts that they once struggled with to refresh their confidence. 10. Reward Positive Behavior Outside the Classroom Tie service opportunities, cultural experiences, extracurricular activities into the curriculum for extra credit or as alternative options on assignments. Have students doing Habitat for Humanity calculate the angle of the freshly cut board, count the nails in each stair and multiply the number of stairs to find the total number of nails; write an essay about their experience volunteering or their how they felt during basketball tryouts; or any other creative option they can come up with. Retrieved from: http://www.teachhub.com/top-12-ways-motivate-students

Reflection about my experiences

In my school middle school and high school experiences, I didn't learn something new with technology but we just playing games with computer. I am sure that it helped me to choose computer educational program so I am here. I didn't learn something new with computer but i realize that it helps a lot. if I will become a teacher, i will use computer in my lectures with proper instructional design. Some topics are really can be understandable with computer. An example of this can be in physics lectures. They always draw a picture of for example, free body diagram, but you do not need drawing that with computer. It also saves your time, with that time you can solve many examples.

Motivation

REFLECTION

Teacher-centered/Learner-centered most of my teacher were used teacher centered learning style. all students have to listen their teachers because of teachers saying is a clue of exam quesions. when students listen their teacher carefully, they get higher grade easily because of teacher centered learning style. all my experiences are the same as I talked above.

REFLECTION

Paper for Seth Godin's Speech Our computer teacher, only, was coming to class, telling us to open computer write them down to our notebook on word document. Again, our Computer teacher did not spend any effort to teach something to us. In terms of a teacher , this behavior do not beneficial fo students learning. If you ask someone that do you think a teacher who use computer for teaching students is a good or bad one, many people will respond to this questions by saying that there is no problem about using computer. I want to highlight that, being a good teacher by challenge with students is possible and, actually, in most cases it is the only way to become one in Turkey.

TEACHER

Basically, I won't be a teacher. ;)

Homework

Personal Profile

My name is Mehmet ÖZKAN and ı am studying Computer Education and Instructional teaching program. 2013 and 2014 education year is my fifth semester in this school.ı came from Konya which is located in the middle of turkey.I was born on February 3, 1992. Actually,I do not want to be a teacher. I am studying in education program but I don't want. when ı will graduate from this school, I will be businessman:)