"To learn how to learn, you have to love learning-or you have to at least enjoy it-because so much learning is about being motivated to teach yourself. And while it seems that some people are just born with that motivation, many others can develop it or have it implanted...." Friedman p. 310
Motivation
One of the greatest wishes we have for our students is for them to be highly intrisic, self motivated learners. This a vital skill to their success in a "flat world" and a skill that is lacking in many of our students today. To make our school innovative, we decided to redesign our school around the theme of finding a way to motivate each and every one of our students.
Motivated students are often the students who are already successful. We were intrested in finding different ways to motivate all kinds of learners. Many of the authors that we have read for this class, including Alan November and Daniel Pink, referenced the Professor Mihalyi Csikszentmihalyi from the Claremont Graduate University who created what is referred to as his "Flow Theory". In order to reach this state of flow, both your skill and challenge levels must be high. When you reach this level of flow, you will becocme highly motivated and thus successful.
Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience
Through the University of Georgia, we found the Emerging Perspectives on Learning, Teaching, and Technology who used Csikszentmihalyi's theory to categorize 6 C's that lead to greater motivated students. We adapted their categories, and added our own that we felt were appropriate for our aged learners. There is certainly overlap between the different categories, but we feel restructuring our school around these thems will make our students happier and ultimately more motivated to succeed. Our 5 C's are:Challenge through ChoiceCollaborationCompassionCreativity
Motivation
One of the greatest wishes we have for our students is for them to be highly intrisic, self motivated learners. This a vital skill to their success in a "flat world" and a skill that is lacking in many of our students today. To make our school innovative, we decided to redesign our school around the theme of finding a way to motivate each and every one of our students.
Motivated students are often the students who are already successful. We were intrested in finding different ways to motivate all kinds of learners. Many of the authors that we have read for this class, including Alan November and Daniel Pink, referenced the Professor Mihalyi Csikszentmihalyi from the Claremont Graduate University who created what is referred to as his "Flow Theory". In order to reach this state of flow, both your skill and challenge levels must be high. When you reach this level of flow, you will becocme highly motivated and thus successful.
Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience
Through the University of Georgia, we found the Emerging Perspectives on Learning, Teaching, and Technology who used Csikszentmihalyi's theory to categorize 6 C's that lead to greater motivated students. We adapted their categories, and added our own that we felt were appropriate for our aged learners. There is certainly overlap between the different categories, but we feel restructuring our school around these thems will make our students happier and ultimately more motivated to succeed.
Our 5 C's are:Challenge through ChoiceCollaborationCompassionCreativity