Motivation - ARCS Model
- 1. Motivation
- 2. Intro Today’s agenda: ● Viewing of a short video ● Overview of Motivation and ARCS Model ● Mini Activity ● Wrap-Up Discussion
- 3. Short Video A bad example of motivating students...
- 4. A bad example of motivating students...
- 5. What is motivation? The general desire or willingness of someone to do something. (dictionary.com)
- 6. What is ARCS model? The ARCS Model is a method for improving the motivational appeal of instructional materials. (Keller, 1987). Attention Relevance Confidence Satisfaction
- 7. Attention According to Keller (1987) attention is important as it is a pre-condition for learning. However, sustaining attention is not less important than the attention itself.
- 8. Relevance There should be a convincing answer when the student ask himself/herself the question next to the kid in the picture. If there is no convincing answer, there is a relevance problem which decreases the level of motivation (Keller, 1987) “Why do I have to study this?”
- 9. Confidence The third major element of Motivation. According to Keller (1987), level of confidence influences student’s motivation and therefore his/her accomplishments and persistence on study.
- 10. Satisfaction Student should feel good about his/her accomplishments. Without over controlling providing extrinsic rewards, and stimulating intrinsic rewards can increase motivation level (Keller 1987)
- 12. Mini Activity Directions 1. Brainstorm: After receiving your scenario, brainstorm with your group a possible strategy from John Kellers ARCS model that you could apply as part of an instructional plan to motivate your students during the next class. Please choose one or more strategies listed on one of Keller's four tables on the handout. 1. Prepare: Write down a 3-5 minute lesson plan applying the motivational strategy to teach the students a topic for the course. 1. Teaching Roleplay: Teach your 3-5 minute lesson based on a motivational principles(s) to the other groups who will act as the students in your scenario. 1. Discussion: When done the other class groups will guess which instructional strategy you used and class will discuss “why was this motivation strategy chosen and why would it be effective?”
- 13. Wrap-Up Discussion How all this ties back to Reigeluth’s paper?
- 14. Thanks!