CEP802 Developing Positive Attitudes Toward Learning

Format: Online

Student Group: Graduate Student

Location: Michigan State University

Course Objective

The course focuses on promoting the development of motivation to learn. It is designed especially for educators, school psychologists, and other educational staff to learn new ways of conceptualizing and promoting motivation to learn among students. The overall goal of this course is to help you to develop a deeper understanding of motivation and its relation to learning behaviors in educational settings.

The specific objectives of the course are to: Develop an understanding of important student, teacher, and instructional factors that influence motivation toward learning

Analyze the motivational characteristics of your students and classrooms or other learning settings

Evaluate the adequacy of common motivational strategies

Examine ways that recent research and motivational concepts can be used in schools to motivate students

Develop a repertoire of evidence-based strategies to promote students' motivation to learn