https://www.hertzfurniture.com/school-matters/intrinsic-motivation-students-learn-better/ The collected thoughts of a seasoned school principal and an innovative homeroom teacher. Thu, 19 Mar 2020 22:05:05 +0000 hourly 1 https://www.hertzfurniture.com/school-matters/intrinsic-motivation-students-learn-better/#comment-14520 Thu, 25 Feb 2016 17:54:03 +0000 http://www.hertzfurniture.com/school-matters/?p=6392#comment-14520 Thank you for your insights Andrew. I agree that engagement is key to intrinsic motivation. This applies to students as well as teachers. It would be interesting to see to what extent teachers’ engagement is reflected in the engagement of the students as well. A passionate teacher can certainly get “lost in the moment” and watch a lesson quickly fly by. How can this excitement be passed along to the students as well? How can educators measure or detect this type of engagement in our students?

]]> https://www.hertzfurniture.com/school-matters/intrinsic-motivation-students-learn-better/#comment-14323 Tue, 16 Feb 2016 05:54:42 +0000 http://www.hertzfurniture.com/school-matters/?p=6392#comment-14323 Intrinsic motivation is critical to “real” learning, of the kind that “changes you”, adds to your skills and grows who you are. Comparing this to when we remember something to pass a test to please someone else.
There is a lot to intrinsic motivation. At the heart of it I believe is the notion of engagement. Without being engaged in what we do, we will not want to come back to it. We need to better understand engagement of the kind we all experience when we are pushing to keep going at what we are doing ( think of video games, for eg). Once we do that, we will get a better understanding of intrinsic motivation

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