Motivation and Curriculum

2/2 ReadingsTyler Stubenhofer

Marsh and Willis“Characterizing curriculum is like

trying

to

nail

to a wall.” -HK

Wright

Jell-O

Curriculum = racecourse (Latin)

a race through your courses?!

Teachers of the FutureTeachers as...

•info-givers?

•subject matter specialists?

•motivators?

•gatekeepers?

•resource persons?

•counselors?

•mentors?

Eisner

hours12,000

hours?

10,000

Eisner

!!!

How long should our

paper be??

How can I git ‘r done quickest??

Teachers of the FutureTeachers as...

•info-givers?

•subject matter specialists?

•motivators?

•gatekeepers?

•resource persons?

•counselors?

•mentors?

Teachers of the FutureTeachers as...

•info-givers?

•subject matter specialists?

•motivators?

•gatekeepers?

•resource persons?

•counselors?

•mentors?

San Fran

•Read books --> go to lunch early

FranSan

third

graders

Study showed...reward with a cookie YAY!

reward with a cookie yay

don’t give cookie HEY!!!

REWARD JUNKIES

show

Studies

cookie

cookie

cookie

Hey now

grrr

Differentiation by ability

“why should students whose background or genetic makeup is advantageous be rewarded in this public way? [Are the other

students] less worthy?”

WHYAre we doing things just to do them?

Lewis Mumford (1938)“The habit of producing goods whether

they are needed or not, of utilizing inventions whether they are useful or not, of applying power whether it is effective or not...”

singing record

with a person telephone

No need for

imagination

Ivan Illich (1973)

Tools restrict rather than expand

“People feel joy... [when] their activities are creative.”

“The growth of tools beyond a certain point increases regimentation, dependence, exploitation, and impotence.”

Ivan Illich (1973)

Tools restrict rather than expand

“People feel joy... [when] their activities are creative.”

“The growth of tools beyond a certain point increases regimentation, dependence, exploitation, and impotence.”

Ivan Illich (1973)

Tools restrict rather than expand

“People feel joy... [when] their activities are creative.”

“The growth of tools beyond a certain point increases regimentation, dependence, exploitation, and impotence.”

VIAGRA

Ivan Illich (1973)

Tools restrict rather than expand

“People feel joy... [when] their activities are creative.”

“The growth of tools beyond a certain point increases regimentation, dependence, exploitation, and impotence.”

VIAGRA

Ivan Illich (1973)

Tools restrict rather than expand

“People feel joy... [when] their activities are creative.”

“The growth of tools beyond a certain point increases regimentation, dependence, exploitation, and impotence.”

VIAGRA

Ivan Illich (cont.)

•“School curricula or marriage laws are no less purposely shaped social devices than road networks.”

Teachers of the FutureTeachers as...

•info-givers?

•subject matter specialists?

•motivators?

•gatekeepers?

•resource persons?

•counselors?

•mentors?

Traffic cop?Road

sign?

ee cummings“I’d rather learn from one bird

how to sing

than teach ten thousand stars

how not to dance.”

JOY over KNOWLEDGE

there is no formative test for joy

ee cummings“I’d rather learn from one bird

how to sing

than teach ten thousand stars

how not to dance.”

JOY over KNOWLEDGE

(there is no formative test for joy)