Overcoming Our Motivation Crisis with Mike Anderson Transformative Principal 390

<p><a href="https://twitter.com/balancedteacher">Mike Anderson</a> has been an educator for more than 25 years. A public school teacher for 15 years, he has also taught preschool, coached school swim teams, and taught university graduate level classes. He now works as a consultant providing professional learning for teachers throughout the US and beyond. In 2004, Mike was awarded a national Milken Educator Award, and in 2005 he was a finalist for NH Teacher of the Year. In 2020, he was awarded the Outstanding Educational Leader Award by NHASCD for his work as a consultant. A best-selling author, Mike has written eight books about great teaching and learning. When not working, Mike can be found hanging with his family, tending his perennial gardens, and searching for new running routes around his home in Durham, NH.</p> <ul> <li>New book on motivation - Moving from systems of extrinsic motivation to supporting students’ intrinsic motivations</li> <li>Extrinsic motivation is the default motivation in schools right now.</li> <li>Motivate from without. Impose on others.</li> <li>Punishments are also forms of extrinsic motivation.</li> <li>Ditchie and Ryan - autonomy is the key intrinsic motivator.</li> <li>Is there ever a time that extrinsic motivation is worthwhile.</li> <li>We’ve taught them to think transactionally.</li> <li>Book - Drive by Daniel Pink - animated video</li> <li>Rote or Mechanical - extrinsic works in the short term.</li> <li>You can lose creativity if extrinsic motivation.</li> <li>Intrinsic motivation comes from within.</li> <li>Self-motivation vs. Intrinsic motivators:</li> <li>6 indicators:</li> <li>autonomy - need for power and control</li> <li>purpose - what we are doing has meaning</li> <li>competence - need to feel good at stuff</li> <li>belonging - connected to others</li> <li>curiosity - naturally interested in</li> <li>fun - playful, joy, energetic.</li> <li>Motivation is very complex.</li> <li>Set this up and incentivize it for them.</li> <li>How do we make this shift in education?</li>