How We Teach This: Season Nine
Season 9 of How We Teach This has a wide range of guests and topics - Listen to stories from Milken Educator Award recipients, hear about the Science of Reading, Digital Literacy teaching strategies, and Dr. Jenny Moss shares about the Dark Side of Motivation.
Jenny Moss, PhD
Assistant Professor of Psychology at Emporia State University
Season 9, Episode 1 - January 17, 2024
Controlling Teaching: The Dark Side of Motivation
Dr. Jenny Moss, Assistant Professor of Psychology at Emporia State University, shares examples to improve student engagement by providing more autonomy. Teachers want to avoid the dark side of motivation, and controlling teaching behaviors. In this episode, you can learn things you might be doing in the classroom, without realizing it, that inhibit student autonomy.
About Dr. Moss:
Jennifer Moss, Ph.D. in Educational Psychology is an Assistant Professor of Psychology in the new School of Applied Health Science at Emporia State University. Her area of focus is educational psychology and she studies motivation in education. She teaches developmental and educational psychology courses. She is also the director of the SMILE Lab: Studying Motivation in Learning Environments which involves graduate and undergraduate students at ESU and faculty from around the world in examining motivation in education.
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