Motivation Case Study

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I find this case to be very personal to me, since my experiences with teaching was over a decade ago and direct instruction was still the most used teaching method. I found these teachers were less willing to budge from their routine and style, and why should they when they had little support from administration? While I was in college and graduate school, I began to notice that classrooms moved towards the constructivist model and I began to enjoy learning more. I want to connect and provide that same level of passion for learning for my students.
Motivation
Motivation is an integral part of teaching in order to improve student learning. In order for Mr. Entenmann to motivate his students he must first be motivated to want to help his students. In order to do so he needs to first understand and empathize with his students as …show more content…

Understanding a student’s needs outside of the classroom can help him be more focused on building and motivating their educational needs. Abraham Maslow came up with an approach to motivation called the Hierarchy of Needs and how it affects a student’s ability to learn (Danforth and Boyle, 2007, p. 32). By understanding that each student comes from a different background and thus has different needs, Mr. Entenmann can help fulfill the needs of each of his students and begin to re-focus the student on teaching and learning. Along with the motivation formula for learning, …show more content…

Entenmann has been using as a veteran are the main problems in this case study. My long-term intervention addresses the issues of giving Mr. Entenmann the resources to create techniques and strategies that help him develop a constructivist classroom. In regards to short-term techniques and strategies, implementing a behaviorist model and moving Hector and Felix to the front of the classroom so they can be more involved, may help diffuse the

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