Motivation & Engagement

Here are some resources from Stephen Traphagen and me for looking at your classroom through the lens of the motivation and engagement of your students.

We believe that classroom communities can be places where both teachers and students can learn from each other.  Hopefully, these resources can help you do just that. 

Powerful questions to challenge your assumptions:

1 - Where are we going?  What are we doing?

2 - Who gains and who loses by where we're going and what we're doing?

3 - How is power implicated here?

4 - Is the way things are developing desirable?

Bent Flyvbjerg, Making Social Science Matter: Why Social Inquiry Fails and How it Can Succeed Again (2001) 

Motivation and engagement