Instructions: Complete the following activity to complete the Life Lesson 1 Unit. Materials needed: Safe scissors, magazines, construction or plain white paper, glue sticks or paste, and non-permanent markers Offline Steps: Fold the piece of paper in half. On one half of the paper, write in bold letters “OLD SELF” and on the other half “NEW SELF.” Cut out words from magazines that represent who you are now and what…
Overview In the following exercises, students will master concepts related to understanding the learning domains and modalities. Lab Activities Exercise 1: Learning Domains Exercise 2: Learning Modalities Complete the Learning Domains and Modalities Worksheet here.
This learning activity will continue off of one of our previous ones. In the first activity of this course, Promoting Conflicting Resolution, you created a scenario for your students to role-play. This was a scenario that involved a conflict resolution. That scenario activity is one that you can extend and implement feedback acceptance – being able to accept positive and negative feedback and improve one’s self through that feedback. From that…
Problem solving is a skill that can be make or break for many potential applicants to a job or even the potential advancement of entry-level job holders. If one is not able to identify a problem and come up with a solution, then this lack of problem solving skills can often limit the student’s ability to effective in the classroom or in the workplace. Background Whether it is diagnosis in…
Adaptability is an incredibly skill for students to learn as it allows them to appropriately react and respond to any and all situations. Ultimately, we can provide them subject-knowledge and get them prepared to work, but we cannot plan them for everything that will happen. With all the variables that are possible, it is in fact impossible to plan for everything. Showing Adaptability So, let’s consider the scenario brought up…
As presented by Dr. Tell, the largest unmet need and driver of motivation at work is purpose. This is one of the key factors in the overall development of intrinsic motivation, and if not satisfied, can prevent intrinsic motivation from ever taking hold. Consider the actual educators at your school. These people may include yourself or they may work for you or with you. At most schools, they are often the…
Intrinsic motivation is one of the main goals of nearly all educators for their students. If a student is intrinsically motivated, then they are thirsty for knowledge and will keep working to quench that thirst. While the idea of attempting to intrinsically motivate students is clear, let’s consider the idea of intrinsically motivating staff. The staff, especially the faculty, are the ones that need to be motivators for their students. In…
The quote from Dr. Kozar about the Sawyer Effect is: “What’s fascinating about the Sawyer Effect…by actually introducing pay or some type of reward to a task that was originally intrinsically rewarding it causes that person to lose interest and motivation to perform that same task at that same level over time.” Consider your life, as well as the lives of your coworkers, or even your students. How can the Sawyer…
One of the concepts discussed in the previous lecture is the idea of the Hedonistic Adaptation. This introduced the concept that individuals may get used to external rewards and this limits the ability of those rewards to be as motivating in the future. Considering that concept, reflect on situations where you have been provided external rewards and consider the initial impact they had and subsequently think about whether that impact was…
