Don Berg brought a new perspective to the podcast, and we are so grateful for his time and this episode. We broke the script with educator guests and talked with a psychologist. We dive deep into student motivation and how we can best foster that learning environment for students. The harsh reality is, we cannot motivate a person. We need to create opportunities for students to create their own motivation.
- Don Berg is a psychological researcher and has focused on student motivation.
- Dive into the science of motivation and engagement in classrooms.
- The harsh reality is that students only learn what they want. If they don’t want to, they won’t.
- You cannot motivate someone; they can only motivate themselves. We can create opportunities to tap into the three necessary components of motivation:
Autonomy
Relatedness
Competency
- It’s not just about the relationships between one student to the teacher, but students as a whole. Those relationships across the classroom are key to supporting successful learning.
- Collective illusions are a disparity between the individual opinion and the perceived opinion of society as a whole. There is a notion that our society demands results from standardized tests, yet everyone on a personal level agrees people do not value standardized tests.
- Creating classroom autonomy is key and cannot just be based on giving choices.