"Civilisation rests on our shoulders!": Peps Mccrea on motivated teaching
Mar 7, 2024
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Award-winning teacher educator Peps Mccrea discusses motivated teaching, evidence snacks, concise teaching styles, the significance of attention in learning, enhancing communication, fostering motivation, the power of social norms, and reimagining education for a transformative learning environment.
Teaching is complex and vital for society's progress, requiring recognition and support.
Motivation in learning is fragile and influenced by past and anticipated success rates.
Intrinsic motivation is nurtured by building optimism and increasing student success for long-term engagement.
Extrinsic motivators can kickstart motivation, gradually transitioning to intrinsic motivation through success experiences.
Creating a supportive learning environment where students feel successful boosts engagement and motivation.
Deep dives
Building Awareness of the Complexity of Teaching
Teaching is a sophisticated and challenging task that holds great importance in society despite misconceptions. Society needs to recognize the complexity of teaching to prioritize education better.
Exploring Motivation in Education
Motivation for learning is influenced by the anticipation of future success and prior success rates. Expectancy is fragile and can be hindered by the fear of failure, impacting overall motivation in education.
Intrinsically Motivating Students
Creating conditions for intrinsic motivation involves building optimism for future success and increasing student success rates to foster long-term motivation for learning.
Balancing Extrinsic and Intrinsic Motivation
Recognizing the role of extrinsic motivators in jumpstarting motivation and transitioning towards intrinsic motivation over time through success and optimistic visions of learning.
Strategies to Secure Student Success
Strategies to secure student success in education involve creating environments where every student feels successful 80% of the time, ultimately boosting their motivation and engagement in learning.
Fostering Student Success through Attribution and Proficiency
Emphasizing the importance of accurate attribution, where attributing success to oneself increases expectancy and self-efficacy. Developing proficiency through repeated success influences students to believe they are good at subjects, fueling curiosity and motivation.
Understanding the Impact of Costs on Motivation
Lowering costs in education, such as simplifying the learning process, can enhance motivation. It is important to distinguish between the 'what' and 'how' of learning to reduce the demands of the process while maintaining the challenge in content.
Nudging Norms for Effective Motivation
Leveraging social norms to influence motivation by increasing conformity percentages and enhancing the visibility of norm compliance. Examples like queuing behavior and recycling habits demonstrate how social norms shape behavior.
Building a Sense of Belonging for Enhanced Motivation
Creating a unifying purpose and fostering personal connections among students to enhance the sense of belonging. Encouraging a shared identity and recognizing student efforts can strengthen social norms and motivation in educational settings.
Peps Mccrea is an award-winning teacher educator, designer and author. He is Director of Education at Steplab and author of the ultraconcise High Impact Teaching series, one of which - Motivated Teaching - is the main topic of this episode. On the side, he writes Evidence Snacks, a brilliant newsletter that we speak about at the top of this conversation, and composes excellent instructional threads on Twitter.
Previously, Peps was a Dean at Ambition Institute, where he oversaw the design of programmes for teachers and teacher educators (eg. Masters in Expert Teaching, Teacher Education Fellows, and Early Career Teachers), he was a Senior Lecturer in Teacher Education at Brighton University, and teacher and leader at various schools.
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