February 27, 2019

Educational Issues Lesson Plan

Issues Topic Student Motivation

Group Members Katie Edelmann, Hailey Rausch

Learning Objectives Students will:

● Learn the two types of motivation (intrinsic and extrinsic).
● Demonstrate an understanding of reasons students may be
unmotivated.
● Demonstrate an understanding of ways to motivate students
both intrinsically and extrinsically.
● Collaborate and defend a debate topic with supporting
evidence.

Assessment ● Brainstorming activity to determine what the class already

knows (think-pair-share).
● Student Motivation Relay: Keep & Sweep

Materials Materials used:

● Google Slides
● Debate topic article pages
● Keep & Sweep cards
● Awards for class activity

Introduction (3-5 min) ● What is motivation?

● Brainstorming activity to introduce, and pre-assess already
known knowledge about student motivation (think-pair-
share for 1-minute).

Body (10-12 min) ● Using slides to teach class about student motivation
● define motivation, explain types of motivation, introduce no
zero policy, use case study for class discussion, and a class
debate for critical thinking (5 minutes).
● Give “teaching tools” to the class to provide solutions.

Closure (5 min) Class activity: Keep & Sweep Relay (5 minutes)

● Gives us the opportunity to assess what the class has
learned from our presentation.
● Give awards.
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Key Resources ● Internet

Professional ● Tools for Teaching by Barbara Gross Davis (Jossey-Bass

References Publishers: San Francisco, 1993)
● https://canadianfamily.ca/parents/why-schools-need-to-
scrap-the-no-zero-policy/
● https://edmontonjournal.com/news/local-news/the-no-zeros-
policy-is-ethical-rational-and-pratical-agues-ken-oconnor
● https://www.edutopia.org/article/do-no-zero-policies-help-or-
hurt-students
● Douglas B. Reeves, "The Case Against the Zero," Phi
Delta Kappan, Vol. 86, No. 4, December 2004, pp. 324-325.
● https://edmontonjournal.com/news/local-news/public-
uprising-against-no-zeros-policy-of-edmonton-public-
school-board
● https://www.fraserinstitute.org/blogs/no-zero-policy-a-
failure-of-one-size-fits-all-education-reform
● https://www.edutopia.org/article/do-no-zero-policies-help-or-
hurt-students