What Underachieving
Middle School Students
Believe Motivates them to Learn
Middle School Students
Believe Motivates them to Learn
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Middle School Students Believe Motivates them to Learn |
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Chapter 1: The Challenge to Educate Everyone Chapter 2: A Review of Literature Chapter 3: Methods Chapter 4: The Results Chapter 5: Discussion
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Meaning is the next component. Students do not compile knowledge in some objective data retrieval system. Memory works primarily to make meaning of experience and functions as a connection machine, making associations between different memories, facts, skills, and attitudes (Anderson, et al., 1977; Anderson, et al., 1978; Schank & Cleary, 1995; Rumelhart, 1980; Bruning, et.al., 1995). By providing contexts for learning and mental frameworks for new knowledge, teachers can help students learn material better by helping them develop associations, connections, and contexts for understanding and meaning making. Teachers need to find ways to relate learning to student’s lives, whether that is showing how new knowledge and skills are useful to them or by connecting it to their own lives. Involving students in work for an audience beyond the teacher and other students, giving them real world work to complete, or using metaphors while presenting new information are strategies that help students make meaning of what they are learning. |
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