Dana Kirk

[Dana Kirk @Danakirk32]

That’s a great goal, to trigger students internal motivation because that will never go away. https://t.co/6xav3vt1zI

[Miranda Benfield @MirandaBenfield]

In my classroom, I will capitalize on my young students who come everyday excited to learn. I hope to make my lessons exciting and memorable to have my students remember my classroom and how much fun they had, possibly triggering their intrinsic motivation. #PSY347 #howtodoit

[Dana Kirk @Danakirk32]

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Motivation can only be implicated if we meet our hierarchy of needs, Maslow lists our needs in order and it explains why students need to have free breakfast before class or have access to snacks to stay engaged.

[Dana Kirk @Danakirk32]

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We are driven to experience stimuli. We don’t like to be bored and always like to be entertained. I wonder what it does to our society that with technology we learn to never be bored.

[Dana Kirk @Danakirk32]

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Motivation is the need or desire that serves to energize a direct behavior. There can be intrinsic and extrinsic and both are what cause us to do things. Therefore we need to learn how to strengthen motivation for positive things like learning

[Dana Kirk @Danakirk32]

I agree that it is important to set up a safe environment for all students and to be aware of what is going on in the classroom with the students. https://t.co/LyNEy8tVbj

[Dana Kirk @Danakirk32]

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Some assessment strategies include knowing if it is reliable, give consistent results. Is it valid, measure outcomes it is supposed to.

[Dana Kirk @Danakirk32]

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Assessments will always be a part of the classroom. One way to make them more beneficial is to make a rubric with clear criteria, a clear scoring system, and clear levels of performance for each criteria.

[Dana Kirk @Danakirk32]

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Stress is not only caused from big life stressors but also the everyday hassles of life add up to cause lots of stress.

[Dana Kirk @Danakirk32]

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To help the students who have never been around other students with disabilities here is a poster with ways to teach them to talk with people first language.

[Dana Kirk @Danakirk32]

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ADD and ADHD are similar however ADHD includes impulsive and overactive behaviors

[Dana Kirk @Danakirk32]

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Setting up the environment of your classroom is crucial to how the students will act. They react well to having clear expectation and rules, it is also a good idea to allow the students to help make the rules.

[Dana Kirk @Danakirk32]

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To have effective instruction in the classroom be sure to make clear goals, a positive classroom climate with social interaction, make sure the activity has relevance, and provide a challenge with in the students range.

[Dana Kirk @Danakirk32]

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Making lessons plans can be difficult but there are others who have done it first and can help us. Here is a good example of how to plan for an art classroom

[Dana Kirk @Danakirk32]

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Planning for a class has a lot going into it. It is important to look at teacher instructed learning as well as student directed learning. Start by identifying the results you want the students to reach and work backwards.

[Dana Kirk @Danakirk32]

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Personally I never had classes that were learner directed instruction, however learning about it makes me want to teach in this way to guide and scaffold lessons but allow more student input and interaction for better learning.

[Dana Kirk @Danakirk32]

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Being enthusiastic when teaching and teaching students that learning is fun will create a positive mindset. Then when students face challenges and contents they do not enjoy they can still enjoy the learning aspect

[Dana Kirk @Danakirk32]

Understanding positive and negative reinforcement doesn’t mean negative is bad but it is the taking away and positive is adding. https://t.co/q0DlHyTq53

[Antonia Fornaro @AntoniaFornaro]

Positive reinforcement and negative reinforcement both help the likelihood of the behavior occurring again. The positive is when something positive is added to motivate. The negative is when something not good is removed which helps the behavior be more likely to occur again.

[Dana Kirk @Danakirk32]

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Their are things about our culture that make us perceive things differently, which I’ve understood but we do this without conscious thought. So even architecture across culture changes the way we see different things.

[Dana Kirk @Danakirk32]

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Finding your students zone of proximal development will help the students not get bored, stay focused and on task, and give them motivation, making the class more fun for both the teacher and the students.

[Dana Kirk @Danakirk32]

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Higher levels of teacher self-efficacy will make help the students have higher self-efficacy. So it is important to start building the confidence in the classroom now, even in student teaching or observations.