Jumat, 02 Mei 2008

CAN SCHOOL RESTRUCTURING PLANS BE USED TO INCREASE STUDENT MOTIVATION?

Source: ERIC Clearinghouse on Educational Management Eugene OR.

School administrators can take advantage of times of educational change by including strategies for increasing student motivation. Acknowledging that school restructuring is inevitable, Maehr (1991) challenges school leaders to ensure that "motivation and the investment in learning of students will be enhanced" as a result of school reform. School leaders have seldom "considered motivation vis-a-vis the current restructuring movement," he says, "and few have considered that the school as an entity in its own right, may have effects that supersede those of individual classrooms and the acts of individual teachers."

A positive "psychological environment" strongly influences student motivation, says Maehr. School leaders can create this type of environment by establishing policies and programs that:

* stress goal setting and self-regulation/management

* offer students choices in instructional settings

* reward students for attaining "personal best" goals

* foster teamwork through group learning and problem-solving experiences

* replace social comparisons of achievement with self-assessment and evaluation techniques

* teach time management skills and offer self-paced instruction when possibl

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