Motivation and Teenagers: The unreachable star Magali de Moraes Menti

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Motivation and Teenagers The unreachable
star?Magali de Moraes Menti
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OBJECTIVE OF PRESENTATION

• This workshop will center around understanding
  "motivation" - what it is, how people
  are motivated - and "teenagers" - who they are,
  what they are like, what their needs are, what
  their goals are, what they like. There will be
  time for practice on the concepts shared with
  participants through motivating activities aimed
  at getting teens to work and learn.

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MACMILLAN RESOURCES

• Motivation and Teenagers The unreachable star?

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WHAT IS MOTIVATION?

• FORCE THAT DRIVES YOU TO SATISFY A NEED
• MOTIVE AN EMOTION, DESIRE, PHYSIOLOGICAL NEED,
  OR SIMILAR IMPULSE ACTING AS AN INCITEMENT TO
  ACTION

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GARDNER

• motivation effort desire to achieve goal of
  learning the language favorable attitudes
  towards learning the language

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SOCIAL CONSTRUCTIVIST

• Motivation is a state of cognitive and
  emotional arousal which leads to a conscious
  decision to act and which gives rise to a period
  of sustained intellectual and/or physical effort
  in order to attain a previously set goal (or
  goals).

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MOTIVATION

• Motivation involves reason for doing something,
  deciding to do something and persisting
  (sustaining the effort).
• Students must perceive the value of the activity
  and be aroused to carry it out.
• Conditions for arousal activity must not be too
  complex, students must not worry about failing,
  students must know what they are doing and how
  well they are doing it.

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DIFFERENT TYPES OF NEEDS

• need to affiliate with other people
• need to dominate others
• need to understand the world
• biological needs
• need to satisfy curiosity
• need to achieve
• need to protect yourself

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Motivation is the key!!!!

• Instrumental need and desire to use knowledge
  as a tool or instrument to satisfy a different
  need
• Integrative having the knowledge is the need to
  be satisfied
• Task motivation kinds of activities proposed by
  teachers challenge, entice to think, mental
  effort
• Intrinsic need to learn comes from within
  learner
• Extrinsic external influences to learn

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What motivates?Activities that ....

• make one think and reflect.
• entail an effort to comprehend and to produce.
• enable learner to add something new to his life.
• allow the learner to better understand himself
  and the world surrounding him.
• challenge learners to make a mental effort.
• are pleasing to the senses auditory, visual,
  kinesthetic.
• cathartic.
• learner can relate to, get involved in.

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The key is to keep them busy doing something
enticing and engaging !!!

• Suggestions
• -try to have a class routine
• -propose concrete activities
• -propose tasks
• -give them time to rehearse and practice before
  performing

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WHAT DO KIDS NEED

• SOCIALIZE
• MOVE AROUND
• SIT ON THE FLOOR
• ATTENTION FROM TEACHER
• SING/PLAY
• DEVELOP SKILLS
• DRAW
• STORIES

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WHAT DO TEENS NEED

• TO BE RESPECTED
• THEIR PLACE IN THE GROUP
• FEEL WANTED
• FEEL IMPORTANT
• DISCOVER WHO THEY ARE
• DISCOVER NEW THINGS
• EXPLORE
• USE THEIR CREATIVITY

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PROJECTS FOR TEENS

• SONG ACTIVITIES
• VIDEO ACTIVITIES
• SHOW AND TELL
• RESEARCH TOPICS
• PRESENTATIONS
• GROUP WORK
• CHALLENGE