How to kill natural interest and curiosity in music students: Use ineffective praise This is an attention-grabbing heading and deliberately[…]
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Tag: motivation
Teacher Motivation Survey
Teacher Motivation Survey I am recruiting experienced teachers to participate in my online teacher motivation survey. The survey will take[…]
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Verbal praise pitfalls in instrumental music lessons
Verbal praise pitfalls in instrumental lessons The hunger for approval is strong in all of us. Positive comments, through the[…]
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Educational success – A pathway to happiness and well-being?
Educational success – A pathway to happiness and well-being? The strong emphasis on succeeding in education through high grades, test[…]
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Minimising the effects of rewards in education.
Minimising the effects of rewards in education. In previous posts, I have outlined why rewards in education are detrimental to[…]
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Rewards affect feelings towards learning and motivation
Rewards affect feelings towards learning and motivation Rewards are extrinsic motivators (Hidi, 2015). They change the reason for doing a[…]
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Rewards in education – Who benefits?
What a fascinating thing. Total control of a living organism! – B.F.Skinner (1983) Rewards in education – Who benefits? Some[…]
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Do rewards improve results?
Do rewards improve results? Rewards have effects that interfere with performance in ways we are only beginning ot understand (Janet[…]
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Try harder or try differently?
Try harder or try differently? Deliberate practice Malcom Gladwell (Gladwell, 2011) popularised the notion that it takes 10,000 hours to[…]
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Work motivation among teachers.
Teacher motivation Adaptive and maladaptive work motivation among teachers. I am very interested in how and what keeps teachers motivated.[…]
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