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  • Support for early career teachers (ECTs)
  • Education Development Trust
  • Year 2: First half-term: embedding a positive climate for learning

    • Learning outcomes

    The intended outcomes of this activity are for you to:

    Learn that
    7.4 Teachers can influence pupils’ resilience and beliefs about their ability to succeed, be ensuring all pupils have the opportunity to experience meaningful success.
    7.6 Pupils are motivated by intrinsic factors (related to their identity and values) and extrinsic factors (related to reward).
    7.7 Pupils’ investment in learning is also driven by their prior experiences and perceptions of success and failure.
    Learn how to
    Communicate a belief in the academic potential of all pupils, by:
    1a Using intentional and consistent language that promotes challenge and aspiration.
    1c Creating a positive environment where making mistakes and learning from them and the need for effort and perseverance are part of the daily routine.
    Motivate pupils, by:
    7o Helping pupils to journey from needing extrinsic motivation to being motivated to work intrinsically.

    In your notepad

    Key questions

    1. What are intrinsic and extrinsic motivation and what might these look like in the classroom?
    2. If pupils are largely motivated by extrinsic reasons, does this mean that they will not do as well?
    3. How can you support pupils to be more intrinsically motivated?
    4. How are success and motivation linked?