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Motivating Students to Learn (Free Online Course With Certificate) Alison Free Online Learning

Introduction
This online student motivation training course will teach you the different factors that affect student motivation and show you to create a classroom environment that will promote highly motivated learning. Being an effective teacher requires a variety of skills but one of the most important is how to motivate a student to learn. Once the students are motivated, they will spend more time on their tasks and complete them much more effectively.
This is a free online course with a certificate. Interested? Simply click the button and start today.
This Free Online Course Includes:
- 1.5-3 Hours of Learning
- CPD Accreditation
- Final Assessment
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Curriculum
This free online motivational training course will first introduce you to the theory of Behaviorism, operant conditioning, and how to apply them to motivation. You will learn about the different types of goals that affect student motivation as well as how to encourage mastery goals. You will study the effect of student interest on learning and motivation, and learn how to generate student interest in a topic. The student motivation course will also cover the different attributions of success and failure and how to encourage attributions that positively affect student motivation.
You will then learn about the theory of self-efficacy, learned helplessness, and the sources of self-efficacy in motivating students. The motivational training course will discuss the theory of self-determination, the three basic human needs that lead to self-determination, and extrinsic and intrinsic motivation. You will also learn teaching strategies that support students' needs. Finally, you will study the expectancy of success, the value of success, and how to combine the two to create motivation as well as study the TARGET model.
Helping your students set achievable goals and motivating them to work towards them can be easily done when you acquire proper teaching techniques and understand important learning theories. The theories of motivation in education included in this motivational training course for motivating students can help you develop effective teaching skills and provide appropriate learning conditions for your students. So, check out the motivational training course today and start applying these lessons in your educational setting by the end of the week!
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Behavior and Goals as Motivation Sources
In this module, you will learn about the theory of Behaviorism, operant conditioning, and how to apply them to motivation. You will also learn about the different types of goals that affect student motivation such as mastery goals, performance goals, and failure-avoidance goals. Lastly, you will learn how to encourage mastery goals and how to avoid failure-avoidance goals.
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Motivation Related to Attributions and Interests
In this module, you will learn about the effect of student interest on learning and motivation. You will also learn how to generate student interest in a topic to help students get motivated. Furthermore, you will learn about different attributions of success and failure and how to encourage attributions that positively effect student motivation. Lastly, you will learn how to provide appropriate learning conditions.
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Self-Efficacy
In this module, you will learn about the theory of self-efficacy, learned-helplessness, and the sources of self-efficacy in a student.
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Self-Determination
In this module, you will learn about the theory of self-determination, the three basic human needs that lead to self-determination, and extrinsic and intrinsic motivation. You will also learn teaching strategies that support students’ needs.
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Combining Motivation Theories
In this module, you will learn about the expectancy of success, the value of success, and how to combine the two to create motivation. You will also learn about the TARGET model, which uses a combination of motivation theories, and how to apply theories of motivation to your own teaching
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Course assessment
Program Outcome
What You Will Learn In This Free Course
- Describe the theory of Behaviorism and how it relates to motivation
- Discuss operant conditioning in terms of motivation
- Describe the difference between the type of goals that affect a student’s motivation
- Explain how to generate interest in a topic to help students get motivated
- Discuss the different attributions about success and failure, and how they affect a student's motivation
- Describe the theory of self-efficacy
- Identify sources of self-efficacy beliefs in a student, and how to influence them positively
- Define and describe self-determination
- Define and describe the TARGET model
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