I don't usually talk about a HUGE part of my research over the years - motivation research. With my colleague Oldfather (who originally researched my 5/6 grade class) , we researched my last class of 5/6 graders through high school about their motivations for learning. They were co -researchers int hat work and presented with us and wrote with us through the years at IRA and NCTE and National Reading Conference and American Education Research Association.
I can reference a number of articles Oldfather, I and both of us together wrote over those years, some with kids as co-authors. That research might crank your heads around as it did mine!!!! Mostly I would say that I strongly believe in classrooms which respect and value all students, where they ALL have important contributions to make, where the get that they each have different strengths and needs and that together we are all teachers, that the point is learning not competition and grades. The intrinsic motivation research totally supports all this AS DID THE KIDS!!! So I would want all my students to be there in class with varying degrees of support at different times of course. They ALL need to be part of the community and that has to be real, not fake. That's why I believe sooooo strongly in workshop approaches. I am so thankful that I had the opportunity to learn how to teach int his environment toward the end of that first 27 years in classrooms - the last 4 years in a multiage, progressive classroom. That's where I first learned to use the Learning Record and narrative approaches to assessment as well - which are also key to intrinsic motivation. Enough said, sorry if I"m preaching. I just believe so strongly. And those kids would all tell you all of this now too..... Sally On 7/18/11 3:16 PM, "Sue and Paul Therrien" <[email protected]> wrote: > -----Original message----- _______________________________________________ Mosaic mailing list [email protected] To unsubscribe or modify your membership please go to http://literacyworkshop.org/mailman/options/mosaic_literacyworkshop.org Search the MOSAIC archives at http://snipurl.com/MosaicArchive
