Goal Orientation

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What You Tried for Confidence & Success

Share your experience at your table.

Was it successful or not? Why do you think so? How could it be improved if not successful? When/how might you use this strategy again?

Report to large group

Goal Orientation

Mastery Goal Internally driven Focus is learning Students participate Revision &

improvement important Everyone can succeed Challenge is promoted Growth Mindset

(foreshadow)

Performance Externally driven Focus is performing Teacher directed Norm referenced Winners & losers Students tend to play it

safe Fixed Mindset

(foreshadow) Can be Approach or

Avoidance

Review of Chapter

What did you think of this way of conceptualizing student motivation?

Were you familiar with mastery (learning) and performance (ego) goals as concepts? Have you noticed this in your students whether you knew the name for it or not?

What barriers exist in promoting mastery over performance?

Review of Findings

• In general, few students have mastery goals for science.

• Students are more likely to be organized & diligent when mastery goals are emphasized.

• Mastery Goal Oriented classrooms promote deep processing of content, comprehension monitoring, reorganizing new information, and making connections to prior knowledge

• Science classrooms tend to emphasize performance goals

• In terms of motivation, emphasizing deeper understanding of the topics benefited female students more than male students.

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Rewards Are they all they are cracked up to be?

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Assessment and Awareness

Personal Goal Orientation

(Individual)

Complete the Personal Mastery Goal Scale for 2 students in your class:

One who gets very high grades

one who seems engaged/interested but gets low grades.

Discuss the level of mastery goal orientation of these 2 students.

Classroom Goal Orientation

Now, evaluate your classroom. What is the emphasis?

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Classroom Goal Structures

Mastery Performance

Success Improvement, progress, mastery

Good grades, better than others

Effort Learn new things Demonstrate ability

Satisfaction Progress, Mastery Outperforming others, “sliding by”

Evaluation Progress Social comparison(Posting grades)

Mistakes Part of learning process Failure, lack of ability

Ability (Mindset) Growth Fixed

Promote Deep Processing of Information

Notice how this teacher has students THINK and thereby learn about content often taught as rote.

1. Identify a topic that you are teaching or will teach soon

2. How can you have the students: a. Compare, contrast; b. Classify; c. Find patterns; d. Explain: Why? How? How do you know?; e. Provide evidence; f. Predict, hypothesize; Identify cause and effect

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Promote Mastery

Deliberately make mistakes and ask students to catch them.

Permit revision & Respond to error as a learning experience.

Directly Teach about Goal Orientation.

Provide reassurance, feedback, and instrumental support.

Tell about scientists who failed before succeeding.

Be a role model for mastery learning

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Promote Self Regulation

Fostering Parent Involvement

Are the parents of your students oriented to performance?

Brief articles for parents

Homework tips on the website

Promote parent child talk about science: ask your students to teach their parents something

Your Plan

SCIENCE PLANS

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