Autumn week 2

Mentor materials

Discussion - how to develop pupils' intrinsic motivation

Duration: 60 minutes.

Outcome

By the end of this session your ECT will have:

• articulated what impacts pupils' motivation
• identified strategies for helping all pupils to journey from extrinsic to intrinsic motivation in a specific subject
• identified a pupil they teach who is less motivated than their peers in a specific subject
• identified 2 or 3 strategies they'll implement to help increase that pupils's motivation

Reference materials

• Developing pupils’ intrinsic motivation
• Further developing prior knowledge
• Providing additional scaffolds

Key questions and talking points

1. What’s the difference between intrinsic and extrinsic motivation?
2. Which of your pupils exhibits intrinsic motivation? How can you tell?
   
3. What impacts your pupils’ motivations?
   
4. How does motivation change depending on the topic you’re teaching? (Prompt further for answers around flexible grouping).
   
5. What have you done so far to address motivation issues in pupils? (Prompt further for answers around responsive teaching).
6. How do you show pupils what success looks like in a given task?
7. What were the motivational strategies that were outlined in the training session?
8. Which strategies do you think would have an impact on the pupils you teach?
9. Let’s agree on a focus for this half term, linked to building intrinsic motivation.