10732 week three wi2010-accepting personal responsibility

Accepting Personal Responsibility/Discovering

Self-Motivation

COM101 Winter 2009

Review

►Journal 4: Victim vs. Creator Language

►Contract for Educational Progress

What would you do with $5295.00?

►20 credits that didn’t go towards my degree

►Week 2: Getting on Course to your Success/Learning College Customs

Importance of Academic Advising

Activity: Popson’s Dilemma

►Popcorn Reading

►Which professor gave the best advice on how to motivate students?

►Assante: Relate to work world

►Buckley: Let them add their own choices

►Chang: Use service learning

►Donnelly: Focus on grades

►Egret: Focus on teamwork

►Fanning: Assign a challenge

►Gonzales: Engage students-active learning

►Harvey: Just do the best you can

Students’ Motivation toward Learning

►What reasons do you have for completing educational tasks?

Mastery: pursue tasks to develop and improve your abilities (because you want to learn)

Performance-approach: pursue tasks because you are concerned about demonstrating your ability (because you want to show that you know)

Performance-avoidance: pursue tasks to hide lack of ability (because you don’t want to look like you don’t know)

Which statement best describes your approach toward learning

(prior to this semester)?

►I want to learn as much as possible in college

►It is important to me to do better than the other students

►I hope I don’t do badly in college

Which statement best describes your approach toward learning

(prior to this semester)?►I want to learn as much as possible in

college (Mastery-goal)

►It is important to me to do better than the other students (Performance-approach goals)

►I hope I don’t do badly in college (Performance-avoidance goals)

Effective Reading & Notetaking

►SQ3R

►Cornell Notetaking Method

Cornell Notetaking Method-James Madison University

CLAW Workshops