Mahailey Albain

Mahailey Albain

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This course was of interest to me because adult motivation and youth motivation vary somewhat. I am currently working on my dissertation focusing on several societal factors which may or may not influence teacher intrinsic motivation. The responses to my survey indicate that teacher motivation is impacted by many factors and that when teacher motivation is impacted, student learning is also impacted.

I have been a fan of designing learning objectives around multiple intelligences and higher order thinking skills as related to course objectives for years. I learned about fishbowl critiques in an AP workshop and have used it with high school and college students as a way to learn about their own writing and accept feedback from peers. All students must participate. What I have found is that after the initial session, students look forward to analyzing their own learning through the debriefing questions we use. Their writing improves quickly and they are more excited to come to an English class… >>>

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