The next Education Development and Discussion Group (EDDG) is on Tuesday 3rd March and Thursday 5th March @ 12.15-1.15 pm , in room 810 . The discussion topic is ‘Engaging the reluctant learner’ . If you have any links to articles etc. which relate to this topic, please send them to me for distribution.
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Suggested article to read from Carole Paterson: http://www.ascd.org/publications/educational_leadership/sept04/vol62/num01/The_Engaged_Classroom.aspx
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Carole also recommended ‘Getting the Buggers Motivated in FE’ by Susan Wallace and, thoughtfully, summarises it for us a bit ...
Wallace (post-compulsory education, Nottingham Trent U., UK) offers thoughtful advice for teachers in "further education" (ages 14 to adult in the UK) who need advice on motivating unmotivated learners. She frames the advice in narrative vignettes followed by bulleted lists of steps and strategies. Characterizing the four major "demotivators" as fear, boredom, previous negative experience, and loss of hope, the author takes on specific populations (e.g. 14-16 year olds, English as a second language students) and discusses strategies that include reward as motivation, the use of entertainment, the motivating power of positive relationship-building, and exercises in self-respect in terms of each of the four concerns.
Wednesday, February 4, 2009
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