Overcoming Barriers
This internal belief influences whether students persist or give up when work becomes challenging.
Self Efficacy
This term describes students’ psychological investment in learning tasks.
Engagement
Although we cannot always meet this student academic need it will be enhanced by actively involving students in the learning process.
Student Motivation
Adjusting teaching methods to meet varied readiness levels is called this.
Differentation
Walter Doyle (1983) argued that the quality of academic engagement depends on tasks students are expected to accomplish and this.
Students understand what they are doing
Someone who works hard, cooperates with others, takes risks, sets goals, makes a good effort, asks for help if needed, doesn’t give up, and learns from his or her mistakes.
Succesful Learner
In order to help students better understand the learning process, we have found it helpful to assist students in developing several key concepts related to
Learning
Providing meaningful options in assignments supports this motivational need.
Autonomy
These ongoing checks guide teachers in modifying instruction during learning.
Formative Assesments
Brophy (1986b) identified this teacher failure as a major reason for students’ low quality of engagement in academic tasks.
Failure to call attention to the purposes and meanings of assignments
Once students have determined the characteristics of an effective learner, you can use these criteria to involve students into their learning behavior during an activity or time period and can also use these standards to direct students toward an ongoing assessment of their behavior
Self Assesment
The theory that suggests students, particularly those who have experienced less academic success, see intelligence and academic skill as a fixed trait and that when they are successful, it is due to their having less difficult work or greater assistance.
Attribution Theory
These statements clarify what students are working toward in a lesson or unit.
Learning Goals
Temporary supports that help students accomplish tasks just beyond their current ability are known as this.
Scaffolding
Research by Xia (2017) indicates that student learning is enhanced when these are clearly defined, understood, and valued.
Learning Goals
When students analyze mistakes and adjust strategies, they are engaging in this reflective practice.
Many students mistakenly define this as doing better than their classmates on homework, in-class assessments, and standardized tests.
Effective Learning
These assessments establish a set of specific standards for content mastery that are transparent, developmental, and aligned with curriculum expectations set by the school/district/state.
Competency Based
Timely, specific, and personalized versions will show students how to achieve and motivate them to apply effort because it supplies both an attainable vision for success and the necessary tools to get there.
This instructional approach establishes transparent, developmental standards for content mastery and allows students to individualize how and when they demonstrate competency.
Personalize Competency Based Learning
Helping students recognize that effort, strategy, and support improve performance addresses this common misconception about ability.
Fixed Mindset
In order to help students better understand the learning process, we have found it helpful to assist students in developing several key concepts related to
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When he asked his teacher how water could run uphill, he was expelled from school.
Thomas Edison
The need to vary one’s ______ and ensure that the instructional methods employed function to motivate student ownership of learning rather than position students as passive knowledge-buckets to be filled.
Some teachers permanently write these four terms on their whiteboards to clarify lessons for students.
Objective(s), Reason(s), Activity(ies), Assessment