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What are the Barriers to Young

People's Motivation and What Can We

Do About It?

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Barriers

• Maladaptive dimensions of motivation and engagement

Reduce Anxiety, Uncertain Control, Fear of Failure,

Self-sabotage

• Academic adversity and academic setbacks

Promote Academic Buoyancy

• Excessive focus on comparisons, competition, and

relative worth

Promote Growth Orientation

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Motivation, Engagement,

Academic Buoyancy

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Motivation & Engagement Wheel

Persistence

Disengagement

Anxiety

Study

management

Learning

focus

Self-

belief

Uncertain

control

Failure

avoidance

Planning

Self-

sabotage

Valuing

school

BOOSTER

BEHAVIOURSBOOSTER

THOUGHTS

MUFFLER

THOUGHTS

GUZZLER

BEHAVIOURS

“Confidence”

“Control”

“Commitment”

“Composure”

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R’ships

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Involvement

“Coordination”

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Strategies Targeting Barriers

- Uncertain Control

- Anxiety

- Self-sabotage

- Fear of failure

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Reducing Uncertain Control

Increase emphasis on 1. effort, 2. strategy, and 3. attitude +

reduce emphasis on external factors (luck, easy/tough marking

etc.)

Feedback makes it clear why particular mark and how to improve

= ‘Feed-Forward’

Show students previously completed examples of good work –

set homework that asks students to review this quality work (eg.

find five good things about this essay + 2 things to improve it)

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Reducing Anxiety, Fear of

Failure, and Self-Sabotage

Reducing Anxiety (Attachments B and C)

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Courageous and constructive view of mistakes

- ‘Miss-Take’ (what’s Take 2?)

- launch pad for success

- diagnostic info

- window for improvement

Near-miss is motivating

Courageous and constructive view of effort

- effort leads to improvement

- ‘smart’ students must try too

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Growth Orientation

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Boosting

Academic

Growth

Encourage Personal

Best (PB) Goals

Foster Growth

Mindset

Map Learning Growth

Harness Personal Best

(PB) Index

Provide Growth

Feedback on Work

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PB Goals

• Personal best (PB) goals are:

1. Specific

2. Challenging

3. Competitively self-referenced

• PB goals may take two forms:

- ‘process PB goals’

- ‘outcome PB goals’

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PB Goals and PB Index

Personal Best Index – Attachment D

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Personal Best Goals – Attachment E1

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In sum:

Increase emphasis on personal excellence

Reduce focus on comparisons with others

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Where To From Here?

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Fear and failure

Disengagement and helplessness

Fear of success

Perfectionism

Courage in the classroom

Personal bests (PBs)

Rock-solid self-esteem

Coping with competition

Seizing control in class

Teacher-student relationships

Building classroom success

CHAPTERS:

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Self-esteem

Valuing school

Learning Focus

Planning and Study Management

Persistence

Anxiety

Fear of Failure

Self-sabotage

Disengagement

Boys

Gifted and Talented

Good Parent-Child Relationships

CHAPTERS:

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Delaying school entry

Preparing for school

Coaching and tutoring

Boys’ and Girls’ education

Single-sex vs Co-Ed schools

Selective schools

Homework

Extracurricular activity

Educational resilience

Dealing with big exams

Reading

Choosing school subjects

Choosing a career

Going to university or college

Having a gap year

CHAPTERS:

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44-items

Assesses each part of the Wheel

Normed on over 33,000 students

Completed in class or individually

Used for diagnosis

Used for benchmarking

Comes with Test User Manual

Comes with Student Score Sheet

MOTIVATION AND

ENGAGEMENT SCALE

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8-week self-paced program

5 exercises each week

Targets each part of the Wheel

Individual or group setting

MOTIVATION AND

ENGAGEMENT

WORKBOOK