Motivating Low-Achieving Students during Pre-Service Teaching
Document Type
Presentation
Presentation Date
3-2008
Abstract or Description
Motivating high school low-achieving students is a daily struggle for pre-service teachers as well as in-service teachers. Based on empirical work, the study explores four factors that contribute to the lack of motivation of high school students observed by student teachers during pre-service teaching. They are: 1) instructors’ low academic expectations on students; 2) instructors’ strategies conflicting with students’ behaviors; 3) teachers’ perception of students’ family life; and 4) curriculum pressure on teachers to teach to the End-of-the-Course test. The ultimate purposes of the study are to help pre-service social studies teachers develop more effective ways to promote motivation by taking into consideration in the process of instructional design the learning needs, learning styles, and learning abilities of students.
Sponsorship/Conference/Institution
American Educational Research Association 107th Annual Meeting
Location
New York, NY
Recommended Citation
Lin, Lin, Jackie HeeYoung Kim.
2008.
"Motivating Low-Achieving Students during Pre-Service Teaching."
Department of Leadership, Technology, and Human Development Faculty Presentations.
Presentation 238.
https://digitalcommons.georgiasouthern.edu/leadership-facpres/238
Additional Information
Georgia Southern University faculty member, Jackie HeeYoung Kim co-presented Motivating Low-Achieving Students during Pre-Service Teaching in the American Educational Research Association 107th Annual Meeting, March 2008.