Promoting

St u

6 Approaches that
Motivate (Wormeli)

de n
t

1. Create Motivation with

Students and Look for
Underlying Reasons for
Lack of Motivation
2. Empathize and Build
Trust
3. Remember Where Your
Students Are
4. Give Descriptive
Feedback
5. Teach the Way the Mind
Learns
6. Tell Stories and Spark
Curiosity

What is Motivation?
Motivation comes from within. Its a welling desire to invest ones self in a topic,
person, or activity. (Wormeli - 2014)
Motivation for school declines after their transition to secondary education.
(Stroet - 2015)

Teachers foster intrinsic motivation in their classes by supporting

their students needs for:

Autonomy:

Competence:

Relatedness:

the experience of a sense

of volition and psychological
freedom when participating in
an activity.

the experience of being

confident and effective in
action.

the experience of feeling

related to and accepted by
others.

Naeghel, Jessie, et al. "The Role Of Teacher Behavior In Adolescents' Intrinsic Reading Motivation." Reading & Writing 27.9
(2014): 1547-1565. Education Full Text (H.W. Wilson). Web. 14 Jan. 2016.
Stroet, Kim. "What Motivates Early Adolescents for School? A Longitudinal Analysis of Associations between Observed Teaching
and Motivation." Contemporary Educational Psychology 42 (n.d.): 129-40. Print.
Wormeli, Rick. "MOTIVATING Young Adolescents." Educational Leadership 72.1 (2014): 26-31. Education Full Text (H.W.
Wilson). Web. 14 Jan. 2016.